UGA Linguistics Faculty and Graduate Students present at the 2019 American Dialect Society annual conference

American Dialect Society Logo in blue, white, and red

University of Georgia Linguistics Faculty and Graduate Students presented at the 2019 American Dialect Society annual conference in New Your City, New York, January 3-6, 2019.

Joey Stanley: "Are BEG- and BAG-raising distinct? Regional patterns in prevelar raising in North American English"

UGA Linguists Teach with Big Data

Linguistics Lab

Collections of speech and text, known as corpora, have long played a key role in linguistics. Now with the help of a Learning Technologies Grant [from UGA's Center for Teaching and Learning], UGA linguists have access to an enlarged range of corpora via a dedicated server. These corpora help students gain data literacy in a way that is specific to linguistics -- for instance in courses like Quantitative Methods LING4400 or Finite State Linguistics LING4530.

Kim Waters served as Co-Moderator of two recent events

Photograph of Kim Waters in front of bookcase

Kim Waters, doctoral candidate in the Linguistics Department, served as co-moderator of two events, with Dr. Sujata Iyengar of UGA’s English Department, in the November conference, Scenes in the Other’s Language / Scénes dans la langue de l’autre. The conference explored appropriation of Shakespeare in non-Anglo cultures, and was co-hosted by UGA and the University of Toulouse. The first event, Mama Day and The Tempest –Magical Language: Gloria Naylor, Shakespeare, and the Barrier Islands, was held at the ACC Public Library.

LING 4770/6770

Historical Sociolinguistics
Credit Hours:
3

Provides an overview of the extra-linguistic factors that affect language use in historical languages; provides an introduction to conducting sociolinguistic inquiry on linguistic varieties for which direct linguistic evidence is limited. Emphasis is placed on quantifiable methods for correlating extra-linguistic factors with observable changes in language use over time.

Prerequisites:
LING 4690/6690 or LING(ANTH) 4860/6860 or POD
Level:
Graduate
Undergraduate
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