Department of Linguistics

On February 8, 2025, members of the Brain, Language, and Bilingualism (BLAB) Lab participated in the Girls Do Science event at the Florida Museum for Natural History. This event celebrated “International Women and Girls in Science” Day and featured activities and conversations designed to encourage more female participation in science. Featured in the image is […]

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Congratulations to Dr. Aaron Broadwell in the publication of his new book, The Timucua language: A text-based reference grammar. This grammar is a comprehensive guide to the grammar of the Native language of much of North Florida, Timucua.  The grammar is based on careful analysis of 17th century materials published in the language, and many […]

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Congratulations to Professor Paula Golombek and her co-editors Karen E. Johnson and Jacob Rieker (2017 UF Linguistics graduate) on the release of new edited volume titled, “Transformative L2 Teacher Education Innovations: Insights from Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory”. This book, “features empirical research studies informed by Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory (VSCT) that are explicitly and intentionally designed to […]

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Congratulations to Linguistics graduate students Ahmed Firoz and Nitin Venkateswaran and Assistant Professor Dr. Sarah Moeller, who presented a poster on Bangla/Bengali-English machine translation at the UF AI Days on October 29. Their model trained on their data performed better than almost any other machine translation models for this pair of languages. They will present […]

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Congratulations to PhD graduate Dr. Joshua Martin, who was recently awarded the Joshua A. Fishman Award  from De Gruyter Mouton. This prestigious award, “recognizes outstanding dissertations that push intellectual boundaries and offer innovative, forward-looking perspectives in the sociology of language.” Joshua won for his dissertation titled, “Automatic Speech Recognition Systems, Spoken Corpora, and African American […]

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Congratulations to recent graduate Dr. Yihan Chen and Professor Eleonora Rossi on the recent publication of their article titled, “Sub-Lexical Processing of Chinese–English Bilinguals: An ERP Analysis” in the latest issue of Brain Sciences. Click the link here to see the article. The abstract is also below. Way to go Drs. Chen and Rossi! “Previous research […]

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Congratulations to Linguistics BA 2024 alumna and AI Scholar Wilermine Previlon, whose paper titled, “Leveraging Syntactic Dependencies in Disambiguation: The Case of African American English” was presented at the LREC-COLING 2024 – The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation in Turin, Italy. This paper is based on Wilermine’s AI Scholars […]

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UF Linguistics is proud to announce that Dr. Sarah Moeller has been awarded a 2024 ACLS Digital Justice Development Grant. The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Digital Justice Grants Program supports digital projects across the humanities and interpretative social sciences that critically engage with the interests and histories of people of color and other […]

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Congratulations to Linguistics PhD Student Allen Shamsi, who recently presented a poster (co-authored with fellow graduate student Rachel Meyer, Dr. Ratree Wayland, and others) titled “Speech Motor Sequence Learning Reflects Changes in Processing Load, Not Unfamiliar Articulatory Coordination” at the Joint Meeting 186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America/Acoustics Week in Ottawa, Canada. This […]

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