Ratree Wayland and Kevin Tang Receive UF Research Seed Fund

Congratulations to Ratree Wayland, Kevin Tang, and their collaborators Karen Hegland and Yonghee Oh (College of Public Health and Health Professions), who were recently awarded a UF Research Opportunity Seed Fund for their project entitled, “Demystifying perceptual evaluations of parkinsonism sub-categorizations using machine learning”. The abstract for their project is below. Parkinsonism refers to multiple […]

Aaron Broadwell and Collaborators Receive LASA Award

George Aaron Broadwell and his collaborators were honored by the Latin American Studies Association for their volume of open access, pedagogical resources centered on Valley Zapotec-language materials created during the Mexican Colonial period. Dr Broadwell collaborates with Zapotec speakers from Oaxaca, Mexico and diasporic communities throughout North America, other linguists, and digital scholarship experts who […]

Faculty Spotlight: Eleonora Rossi

This semester, we are starting a new spotlight series highlighting the accomplishments of our faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and alumni. For our next faculty spotlight, we are highlighting Assistant Professor Dr. Eleonora Rossi. Dr. Rossi joined our department in the Spring of 2019 and is one of the directors of our Brain, Language and […]

New Co-Authored Paper by Crystal Marull and Nathan Campbell Published

Congratulations to our own Dr. Crystal Marull and undergraduate student Nathan Campbell, whose recent co-authored paper, titled, “The Effect of Perceptions: Instructor–Student Dynamics in the Spanish Heritage Classroom” was recently published in the latest issue of Languages. Link to the article is here and abstract is below. The rising population of heritage speakers (HS) in university […]

Graduate Student Spotlight: Joey Radice

This semester, we are doing a spotlight series highlighting the accomplishments of our faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and alumni. For our next graduate student spotlight, we are highlighting PhD candidate Joey Radice. Joey grew up on a Japanese koi farm in Miami, Florida. Their interest in language and communication started early due to the fact that […]

Linguistics Career Pop-Ups Next Week!

The Career Connections Center will be hosting two Linguistics Career Pop-Up events next week on Tuesday (March 2nd) and Thursday (March 4). Tuesday’s pop-up will focus on creating effective resumes, while Thursday’s will focus on career options in Linguistics. Times and links for each pop-up are below. Tuesday, March 2 (2:30-3:30). Zoom link: http://bit.ly/3nDDuvM Thursday, March […]

Graduate Student Spotlight: Josh Martin

This semester, we are starting a new spotlight series highlighting the accomplishments of our faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and alumni. For our first graduate student spotlight, we are highlighting PhD Candidate Joshua Martin. What does your research focus on? My research focuses on linguistic bias against African American Language (AAL) in automatic speech recognition […]

New Edited Volume by Ratree Wayland Published

Congratulations to Dr. Ratree Wayland, whose edited volume “Second Language Speech Learning: Theoretical and Empirical Progress” was just published by Cambridge University Press. Included in the volume are two co-authored chapters by Ratree and her co-authors Drs.Takeshi Nozawa, Lucrecia Rallo Fabra, Xialin Liu, and Si Chen. Link to the volume can be found here.

New Co-Authored Paper by Edith Kaan, Ivette De Aguiar, and Christina Clarke Published

Congratulations to Dr. Edith Kaan, undergraduate students Ivette De Aguiar and Christian Clarke, and their co-authors, whose article, “A transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation study on verbal order memory” was just published in the most recent volume of the Journal of Neurolinguistics. Link to the article is here. Abstract is below. Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) is a […]

Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Kevin Tang

This semester, we are starting a new spotlight series highlighting the accomplishments of our faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and alumni. For our first faculty spotlight, we are highlighting Assistant Professor Dr. Kevin Tang. Dr. Tang joined our department in the Fall of 2019 and is one of the directors of our Speech, Lexicon, and […]

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