Thu, 03/03/2022 - 4:00pm

Peabody Hall, Room 115; also online, register at: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcocuuhrjwoEte9JHB1YCKPZ0AUIUBud5pX

Special Information:

Co-hosted with the UGA Department of Philosophy

In January, Shannon Rodriguez presented her Three Minute Thesis presentation to the board of regents. Rodriguez was a runner up for UGA’s Three Minute Thesis Competition. Her presentation was based on her dissertation, “Latino English in Georgia:  a sociophonetic analysis of ethnicity and identity.” To read more about her research on dialects of English spoken by Latinos born in Georgia, click on the following link in UGAToday: https://news.uga.edu/student-studies-impact-of-language-on-identity/.

We are pleased to be hosting a presentation by Dr. Marjorie Pak from Emory University who will be presenting research entitled “Logoori verb tones and the phonology-morphology interface”. The abstract for Dr. Pak’s presentation is provided below.

We are pleased to be hosting a presentation by Dr. Marjorie Pak from Emory University who will be presenting research entitled “Logoori verb tones and the phonology-morphology interface”. The abstract for Dr. Pak’s presentation is provided below.

PhD student Shulin Zhang is the co-author (with John Hale, Jixing Li, and Yiming Yang) of an article "Decoding the silence: Neural bases of zero pronoun resolution in Chinese" in the January 2022 issue of Brain and Language (available online now). Chinese, like many other languages, allows speakers to drop subject pronouns. This article uses fMRI data to study how speakers resolve referential expressions, including unspoken ones, in naturalistic language comprehension.

Jonathan Evans’s An Introduction to Old English was published by the Modern Language Association in Spring 2021.  The book’s 802 pages represent the culmination of some 25 years’ work compiling, expanding, correcting, and revising drafts of the text-in-progress with input from the 652 students enrolled in his Old English classes from 1994 to 2019. The book is the fifth in the MLA’s “Older Languages” series inaugurated by W.P. and R.P.M. Lehmann’s An Introduction to Old Irish in 1975.

Recently, Department of Linguistics faculty members Dr. Vera Lee-Schoenfeld and Dr. Jon Forrest were selected to receive Willson Center Research Fellowship awards for the 2022-23 academic year.

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.

UGA Linguistics alum, Dr. Doug Merchant (PhD class of 2019) was recently published in the journal Natural Language and Theory. His paper, "What's in the bucket? Aspectual (non)compositionality in phrasal idioms" can be found in Volume 39, issue 4 released in November 2021.

To read more, follow the link below:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11049-021-09528-9

The NWAV 29 Conference (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) was held virtually hosted by the University of Texas at Austin October 19-24, and the University of Georgia's Linguistics Department was well represented!

Dr. Peggy Renwick co-authored two papers that were presented: one with former UGA Linguistics graduate Joseph Stanley "100 Years of Georgia English", and the second with current Linguistics graduate student Keiko Bridwell "Social predictors of the wine-whine merger in the US South".