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UF Linguistics Faculty Receive NSF Grant

July 1, 2024
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 ...
Paper by Linguistics Alumna Presented at COLING-LREC 2024

Paper by Linguistics Alumna Presented at COLING-LREC 2024

July 1, 2024
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” ...
Sarah Moeller Awarded ACLS Digital Justice Development Grant

Sarah Moeller Awarded ACLS Digital Justice Development Grant

May 24, 2024
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 ...
PhD Student Presents Co-Authored Paper

PhD Student Presents Co-Authored Paper

May 24, 2024
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 ...

Alayo Tripp Gives Keynote Talk

May 24, 2024
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Alayo Tripp, who recently gave a keynote talk titled “ Critical Developmental Psycholinguistics: Connecting Metalinguistic Knowledge and Social Power” at the ...

Undergraduate and Graduate Students Recognized at End of Year Party

May 3, 2024
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. ...

Paper by Linguistics Alumnus to Be Presented at CAWL 2024

April 16, 2024
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 ...
Wilermine Previlon Wins CLAS Excellence Award

Wilermine Previlon Wins CLAS Excellence Award

April 8, 2024
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 ...

Linguistics Undergraduates Named 2024 Grass Scholars

April 8, 2024
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 ...

Linguistics Alumnus Named Recipient of an NSF Fellowship

April 8, 2024
Congratulations to Linguistics alumnus Jeffrey Kunath (graduated in 2021), who was recently named the recipient of an National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. He ...

A new translation of the oldest Native American letter

January 31, 2024
George Aaron Broadwell and his colleague Alejandra Dubcovsky have just published a translation of a 1651 letter written in Timucua, the Native language of most ...
New Paper by Grace deMeurisse and Edith Kaan Published

New Paper by Grace deMeurisse and Edith Kaan Published

October 31, 2023
Congratulations to PhD student Grace deMeurisse and Professor Edith Kaan on the recent publication of the article titled, “Bilingual attentional control: Evidence from the Partial ...

2020 Graduate Spotlight

Graduate Spotlight: Alex Menager

Graduate Spotlight: Alex Menager

April 20, 2022
With graduation approaching, we are spotlighting our amazing graduating Linguistics majors each day. For our first spotlight, we are highlighting Alex Menager (he/him). Tell Us a ...
Graduate Spotlight: Sparsha Muralidhara

Graduate Spotlight: Sparsha Muralidhara

April 18, 2022
With graduation approaching, we are spotlighting our amazing graduating Linguistics majors each day. For our first spotlight, we are highlighting Sparsha Muralidhara (moo-ruh-lee-tha-ruh | she/her). ...
Graduate Spotlight: Becca Jaeger

Graduate Spotlight: Becca Jaeger

April 14, 2021
With graduation slowly approaching, we are spotlighting our amazing graduating Linguistics majors each day. For our next spotlight, we are highlighting Rebecca (Becca) Jaeger. Becca is ...
Graduate Spotlight: Madelyn Kloske

Graduate Spotlight: Madelyn Kloske

April 12, 2021
With graduation slowly approaching, we are spotlighting our amazing graduating Linguistics majors each day. For our next spotlight, we are highlighting Madelyn Kloske. Madelyn is ...
Graduate Spotlight: Nathan Campbell

Graduate Spotlight: Nathan Campbell

April 8, 2021
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 ...

Graduate Spotlight: Melena Davenport

April 27, 2020
Melena Davenport is a graduating Linguistics Major this Spring. We spoke with her about her time at UF and what is coming next for her. 1. ...

Graduate Spotlight: Leah Dailey

April 24, 2020
Leah Dailey is a graduating Linguistics Major this Spring. We spoke with her about her time at UF and what is coming next for her. 1. ...

Graduate Spotlight: Ashley Van Wie

April 23, 2020
Ashley Van Wie is a graduating Linguistics Major this Spring. We spoke with her about her time at UF and what is coming next for ...

Graduate Spotlight: Emily Simmons

April 22, 2020
Emily Simmons is a graduating Linguistics Major this Spring. We spoke with her about her time at UF and what is coming next for her. 1. ...

Graduate Spotlight: Sarah Taylor

April 21, 2020
Sarah Taylor is a graduating Linguistics Major this Spring. We spoke with her about her time at UF and what is coming next for her. 1. What’s ...

Graduate Spotlight: Samikai Rosado

April 21, 2020
Samikai Rosado is a graduating Linguistics Major this Spring. We spoke with her about her time at UF and what is coming next. 1. What’s next for ...