University of Georgia Linguistics Faculty and Graduate Students presented at the 2018 American Dialect Society annual conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, January 4-7, 2018.

Joey Stanley, Dr. William Kretzschmar, Dr. Margaret Renwick, Rachel Olsen, and Michael Olsen: "The Gazetteer of Southern Vowels"

Joey Stanley and Kyle Vanderniet: "Consonantal variation in Utah English: What el[t]se is happening[k]?"

The 4th annual Linguistics Conference at UGA took place October 6-7 at the Miller Learning Center. The conference program featured over 30 presenters from colleges and universities in Alabama, Arizona, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Virginia, Wisconsin, Canada, and Brazil. Plenary events included talks by Dr. Susan Tamasi of Emory University and Dr.

Dr. Keith Langston presented a paper "Corpus planning and corpus data: Language advice and actual usage in Croatian" at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society, September 21-24 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. 

Dr. Chamorro spent time this summer collecting data to investigate temporal reference in Tenetehára. She found that the language has a ‘graded past tense system’ with three degrees of remoteness and an evidentiality system that conflates temporal and source of reported information. An analysis of the collected data is ongoing.

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. In the article, which is part of a special collection on Advancing Methods for Analyzing Dialect Variation, the authors analyze the acoustics of vowels by nine speakers from southeastern Georgia. 

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

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. 

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. We are grateful for the help and support that we have received from other departments and from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences in this process.

Thanks to all of our friends and alumni for your continuing support, and we look forward to future success and growth as the new Department of Linguistics!