We are very happy to announce the appointment of Dr. John Hale as the Arch Professor of World Languages and Cultures in the Department of Linguistics. Dr. Hale received his Sc.B. degree from Brown University and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. His work centers on fundamental questions of language comprehension, which he investigates through cognitive modeling using computer simulations.

Dr. Pilar Chamorro has received the Top Cited Paper Impact Factor 2017 award in Phonetica: International Journal of Phonetic Science. This award is for her paper entitled: 'The Effects of Language Dominance in the Perception and Production of the Galician Mid Vowel Contrasts' published in Phonetica 2015; 72: 207-236. 

The Linguistics Society at UGA is excited to announce the 5th Annual Linguistics Conference at UGA, coming this October 12–13! Join us for an interdisciplinary conference focused on "Language in the Margins," with plenary speakers Dr. Salikoko Mufwene, University of Chicago, and Dr. Donna Jo Napoli, Swarthmore College.

Vanessa Swenson has been accepted as a 2018-2019 Fellow in the Future Faculty Fellows Program. Sponsored jointly by the UGA Graduate School and the Center for Teaching and Learning, 3FP is a yearlong professional development program that brings together 15 innovative and dedicated teaching assistants from across campus to talk about, reflect upon, and improve their teaching, while preparing them for the academic job market and the rigors of their first faculty positions.

Dr. Bryan Gick visited UGA to give a lecture on concatenation and coarticulation in embodied speech. Dr. Gick's research focuses on understanding the physical mechanisms of speech production and their interations with perception, phonology, and phonetics in normal, disordered, and children's speech across languages. His talk was co-funded by Linguistics and AI. 

Dr. Hugo Mendez, a Linguistics Department alumnus, has joined the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Religion. He has been with the Department of Religion since 2015 as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Please view his personal page.