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Graduate students Ryan Hearn, left, and Joseph Rhyne hold the grammar guide and dictionary for the Torfan language and a poster for "Captain Marvel."

Former UGA Linguistics students create language for ground-breaking Marvel movie

Two former UGA Linguistics graduate students, Ryan Hearn,M.A.'14 and Joseph Rhyne,M.A.'17 were recently credited with creating an alien language Torfan for the "Captain Marvel" film released this year.

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Currently accepting applications to Linguistics M.A. and Ph.D. programs!

The Department of Linguistics is currently accepting applications to its M.A. and Ph.D. degree programs! Deadline to apply is January 1st, 2020.

Dr. John Hale stands in front of poster hanging on column

Dr. John Hale presents poster at EMNLP 2019

Dr. John Hale presented a poster on "Text Genre & Training Data Size in Human-Like Parsing" along with Adhiguna Kuncoro (DeepMind & Oxford), Keith B.

Portrait of Betsy Miller in blue shirt in front of black background

Betsy Miller served as student panelist at the ICAI Southeast Conference

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Joey Stanley standing in front of digital images of color examples

Joey Stanley offers DIGI Worshop Series in Visualization

Joey Stanley, Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics, held a series of DIGILab workshops this semester to assist faculty and students with making better visualizations.

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