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. 

There is a study abroad opportunity to go to Hannover, Germany and take some LING courses for UGA credit. Please see the information below for more details:

Founded in 1831 by the scholar Karl Karmarsch, the “Higher Trade School of Hannover” started with only 64 students. Today, Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH) has more than 27,000 students of which about 4000 are international students in the natural sciences and engineering, in the humanities and social sciences, as well as in law and economics.

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!