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 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 […]
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 […]
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Alayo Tripp, who recently gave a keynote talk titled “ Critical Developmental Psycholinguistics: Connecting Metalinguistic Knowledge and Social Power” at the Human Sentence Processing Conference (HSP 2024: 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 16-18, 2024. Way to go Alayo!
On April 19, several undergraduate and graduate Linguistics students were presented with awards and recognition for their hard work and achievements over the past year. Below is a list of students and their awards/accomplishments. Way to go UF linguists! Casagrande Fellowship Grace deMeurisse CLAS Excellence Award Wilermine Previlon Distinguished Graduating Senior Award Aniya Johnson Excellence […]
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Congratulations to Linguistics BA alumnus Rayyan Merchant, whose paper titled, “ParsText: A Digraphic Corpus for Tajik-Farsi Transliteration” will be presented at the Association for Computational Linguistics’ Second Workshop on Computation and Written Language (CAWL 2024) in Turin, Italy. This paper is based on his Honors Thesis (under the supervision of Dr. Kevin Tang). During his […]
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Congratulations to graduating senior Wilermine Previlon for winning one of four 2024 CLAS Student Excellence Awards. This award, “recognizes students who embody and embrace the spirit and mission of a liberal arts and sciences education, who excel in and out of the classroom, and who both aspire beyond their reach and inspire those in their […]
Congratulations to two undergraduate Linguistics majors, Melanie Delgado and Rachel Nuyten, who were recently named Alexander Grass Scholars for 2024. Hosted by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, this program offers funding for undergraduate students pursuing research projects in areas such as the humanities, public engagement, local research, and partnerships with community […]
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