It’s the end of another great semester! The Linguistics department is so proud of everything our students and faculty have accomplished this year, including several paper presentations and conference attendances. 

This week, Linguistics Ph.D. students Keiko Bridwell and Amelia Abbott received Graduate Research Awards from the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Advisory Board. The scholarships were awarded to fund Bridwell and Abbott's respective research efforts. 

This past summer, Linguistics faculty and students represented UGA at several conferences. We are excited about all of the phenomenal research taking place in the department, and we would like to take the opportunity to recognize some of the projects that were shared with other researchers across the world over the summer.

Professor Tianming Liu is presenting an invited talk by video to SUNY Albany. 

UGA Linguistics faculty members Dr. Margaret Renwick and Dr. Jon Forrest were featured in this week's Columns article, discussing the rapid decline of the Georgia accent among younger generations. 

The UGA Linguistics department congratulates Zahin Hoque on his receipt of a research award from UGA CURO (Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities). Only 500 of UGA’s 30,000 undergraduate students are awarded the $1,000 scholarship. Awardees will actively engage in faculty-facilitated research, and all recipients are strongly encouraged to present their work at UGA’s spring CURO Symposium. 

This month, the Linguistics department recognizes Meg Fletcher for our DEI Spotlight feature.

Meg returned this month from an eight-week Zulu language program in South Africa. The program included Monday-Friday Zulu lessons, travel to Johannesburg, Richard's Bay, and Durban, and various cultural events across South Africa.