Congratulations to our PhD students Austin Brailey-Jones, Jean Costa-Silva, Meg Fletcher, Hyunjin Lee, and Betsy Miller, and as well as Linguistics faculty Dr. Jon Forrest and Linguistics Alumni Dr. Katherine Ireland who presented the results of their research at the Southeastern Conference in Linguistics (SECOL), which was held at the University of Mississippi March 9-11, 2023.

Austin Brailey-Jones and Betsy Miller presented their paper, "Comparing Palatalization of /t d/ across Word Boundaries in UK English".

We are pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 2023 SPARK Undergraduate Research Awards. Thanks to a generous endowment created by Michael H. and Nancy E. Scarbrough, the Department of Linguistics is able to offer funding to support undergraduate research projects. There are two categories of awards, which are described below.

(1) Undergraduate travel awards

Linguistics faculty and graduate students recently participated in UGA's AI Research Day 2022 on November 17. The day consisted of a keynote address, lightning presentations by members of the UGA community engaged in AI research, a discussion panel, and research posters describing the work of UGA students.

Join us for a presentation by Drew Hoffmaster, this year's Spark Undergraduate Research Award recipient, as he presents his research project "The Closer you Look, the Weirder it Gets! English Comparative Correlatives: Para- or Hypotaxis". The Spark Award for Undergraduate Research is made possible each year thanks to a generous endowment created by Michael H. and Nancy E. Scarbrough, providing funding to support undergraduate research projects. This talk will be held on Wednesday December 7 at 3:30 PM in Gilbert Hall, room 350K.