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Publications: Analyzing dialect variation in historical speech corpora

Dr. Peggy Renwick and Rachel Miller Olsen have co-authored an article in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, using data from the Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States.


Fall 2017 CURO Students

The Linguistics Department is proud to announce that two CURO students will be working with our faculty this fall.

Jonathan Crum views the solar eclipse

Solar Eclipse at Gilbert Hall

PhD student, Jonathan Crum, views the eclipse near Herty Field and Gilbert Hall along with a small crowd that gathered to watch the darkness of totality fall over campus. 

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Linguistics is now a Department!

After over 30 years of existence as an interdisciplinary program at the University of Georgia, Linguistics has now been promoted to departmental status. This achievement is the culmination of years of effort on the part of our faculty, staff, and students.

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Talk About the 'N-Word': UGA Graduate Student, Kim Waters, Organizes Concerts, Lectures and Discussions on Race

Kim Waters, Linguistics PhD Student, was featured in a 2016 Flagpole article titled: "Talk About the 'N-Word': UGA Student Organizes Concerts, Lectures and Discussions on Race".

Support Linguistics at UGA

Your donations to the Department of Linguistics will support research and travel opportunities for students and faculty and other initiatives to enhance students' education in linguistics. Please consider joining other friends and alumni who have shown their support by making a gift to our fund. We greatly appreciate your contributions to the success of our programs!  

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