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Linguistics Faculty Exchange with Leipzig

Under the auspices of the Franklin College International Faculty Exchange Program, the Linguistics Department will host Dr. Lars Meyer from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany.

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Dr. Vera Lee-Schoenfeld publishes "The syntax, information structure, and prosody of German 'VP'-fronting"

Congratulations to Dr. Vera Lee-Schoenfeld, Linguistics, University of Georgia and Dr.

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

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.

Linguistics Lab

UGA Linguists Teach with Big Data

Collections of speech and text, known as corpora, have long played a key role in linguistics.

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Kim Waters served as Co-Moderator of two recent events

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.

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