Emily Rine Butler, Ph.D is interviewed in an article in The Atlantic on greetings during a pandemic, when “How are you?” seems inappropriate. Read it here.
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Assistant Professor Eleonora Rossi, Associate Professor Edith Kaan, and Linguistics graduate student Megan Nakamura are featured in the most recent edition of Explore, UF Research’s quarterly magazine. The article highlights their on-going research in the Brain, Language, and Bilingualism Lab.
Congratulations to PhD student Josh Martin, who received an O. Ruth McQuown Scholarship Award. This scholarship is awarded to students who share a, “commitment to social issues (including addressing issues and fostering opportunities for women, racial minorities and those of low socio-economic background)”.
Congratulations to Aleks Tomic, PhD student in Linguistics working under the supervision of Edith Kaan and Jorge Valdés Kroff, whose NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, “Effects of code-switching on emotional processing”, has been recommended for funding. The project examines the effect of code switching on the emotional reactivity to taboo words.
Dr. Eleonora Rossi will give a flash talk at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Seattle, Washington, February 13-16. Let’s talk! Bilingualism as One-Health approach to understand neurocognitive and social plasticity The ability to communicate is a ubiquitous experience for humans, from childhood to older age. Societies are […]
The department will celebrate its 50th anniversary at the Austin Cary Forest Campus, Saturday, November 9, 2019, from 5-9pm. Please join us for food, music, and half a century’s worth of memories and people.
Linguistics at the University of Florida started in 1969, with an interdisciplinary faculty and MA and PhD degrees. We will celebrate this milestone in 2019-2020 with various events, including a celebration at the Austin Cary Forest Campus on Saturday, November 9. Please join us at the dinner, send us your recollections, or just check in […]
The 6th Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting will be held March 13-14, 2020 at the University of Florida. Visit the conference website for more information.
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D. Gary Miller (1942–2019), renowned Indo-Europeanist and theoretical linguist, has died at the age of 76. Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Gary Miller attended Moravian College as an undergraduate. He received his PhD from Harvard in 1969, with a dissertation entitled Studies in Some Forms of the Genitive Singular in Indo-European. He subsequently taught at the […]
CalPoly Pomona undergraduate Beverly Cotter completed UF’s Summer Research at Florida (SURF) program, under the supervision of Dr. Eleonora Rossi and Linguistics graduate student Megan Nakamura. The program included the production of a video describing the experience