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Paper by Irina Burukina Published

Congratulations to our newest faculty member, Dr. Irina Burukina, on the publication of her recent article with co-author Dr. Maria Polinksy in Journal of Linguistics. The paper is titled The antipassive and verbal projections and is available at the link here. Abstract is below. Way to go Irina! This paper presents and analyzes antipassive constructions in the […]

LIN 3010 is Now LIN 2011

Starting in Summer B 2025, our Introduction to Linguistics course will have a new number. It will no longer be LIN 3010, but instead LIN 2011. Everything else about the course and its placement in the curriculum (e.g. required for the major, prerequisite for all other major courses, sequence in critical tracking, etc.) will remain […]

BLAB Lab Assists with Girls Do Science Event at Florida Museum

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 […]

New Book Co-Edited by Paula Golombek Published

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 […]

Linguistics Students Present at UF AI Days

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 […]

PhD Graduate Wins Joshua A. Fishman Award

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 […]

UF Linguistics Faculty Receive NSF Grant

Congratulations to Drs. Eleonora Rossi, Steffi Wulff, and Zoe Liu who, along with their fellow faculty Dr. Diego Pascual y Cabo from Spanish and Portuguese and Dr. Christopher McCarthy, were awarded a US National Science Foundation grant! Their study, titled, “Measuring the dynamic impact of personal social networks on language learning outcomes” will investigate the […]