Laura McPherson is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Dartmouth College. Her research is driven by primary fieldwork and in-depth description of tonal languages, primarily in West Africa. Congratulations Laura!
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On October 8, 2020, 12:15 pm, Virtual, Professor Devyani Sharmi, D '96, Queen Mary University of London gave a lecture on Layered selves: A socio-cognitive model of speech style.
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Dr. Monica Nesbitt is leading a team of Dartmouth sociolinguistics researchers interviewing Black/African Americans as part of Dartmouth's Linguistics Program's effort to document life and language in New England.
[more]Her project is titled "Phonetic and Phonological Structure in Musical Surrogate Languages." During this five-and-a-half year grant, Prof. McPherson and her team will conduct field research in multiple sites: Ghana, Liberia, Cameroon, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, Thailand, and Burkina Faso.
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A group of Ivy League students from Dartmouth College flock to Piritahi Marae every summer to absorb Māori culture and language.
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