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New Co-authored Publication by Ratree Wayland Published

Congratulations to Professor Ratree Wayland, whose co-authored paper with Si Chen and Yike Yang, titled, “Categorical Perception of Mandarin Pitch Directions by Cantonese-Speaking Musicians and Non-musicians” was recently published in Frontiers in Psychology. Link to the paper can be found here and purpose statement is below. Way to go Ratree! “This study is to investigate […]

New Co-authored Paper by Paula Golombek Published

Congratulations to Professor Paula Golombek, whose co-authored paper with Karen Johnson, titled, “Recurrent restorying through language teacher narrative inquiry” was recently published in System. Link to the paper can be found here and abstract is below. Way to go Paula! “We propose a novel methodology for analyzing language teacher narrative inquiry: recurrent restorying, teachers engaging […]

Two Linguistics Majors Named 2021-2022 Fulbright Finalists

Congratulations to recent Linguistics graduates Rosana Gutierrez and Alexandra St. Tellien, who were named Fulbright Finalists for the 2021-2022 academic year. Rosana was granted an English Teaching Assistant award in Argentina, while Alexandra was granted an English Teaching Assistant award in Côte d’Ivoire. In addition, TESL Certificate students Zariah Brown and Camille Armada were also named Fulbright […]

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 […]

Graduate Spotlight: Ryan Cheves

With graduation approaching, we are spotlighting our amazing graduating Linguistics majors each day. For our next spotlight, we are highlighting Ryan Cheves. Ryan is from Jacksonville, Florida and has been in the Linguistics department since Fall of 2019. Continue reading below to learn more about him and his experiences in our department. 1. What’s next […]

Graduate Spotlight: Nathan Campbell

With graduation slowly approaching, we are spotlighting our amazing graduating Linguistics majors each day. For our first spotlight, we are highlighting Nathan Campbell. Nathan is from Jacksonville, Florida and has been in the Linguistics department since his first semester at UF in Fall of 2018. Continue reading below to learn more about him and his […]

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 […]