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Marana, Ariz.
Linguistics major modified with Asian and Middle Eastern studies
English teaching assistant grant, South Korea

Arista Ngodinh says the opportunity to teach English in South Korea through Fulbright next year “puts all my interests together”—particularly an interest in education and language, and in the language and culture of Korea, where she spent her junior fall as an exchange student at Seoul’s Yonsei University.

Growing up bilingual in...

Monday, April 22, 2019
Steele 007, 4:30 pm
Why Braille is not a Tactile 'Code' for Visual Print: Evidence from Sublexical Structure

Robert Englebretson, Rice University Dept. of Linguistics

Previous research has overwhelmingly demonstrated that fluent reading (of visual print) relies heavily on the unconscious visual recognition of units larger than single letters and smaller than whole words. Sighted readers automatically chunk groups of letters into complex...

Zachary Cooper '17 and Prof. Stanford presented a talk for International Mother Languages Day at the U.N. plaza, February 21, 2019. Their talk was titled "Voices that need to be heard: Collaborative research on less-commonly studied indigenous languages." Their talk was part of a workshop called "Diversity and multilingualism in the megacity," which was sponsored by NYU and the University of Cologne, and held at the German Permanent Mission to the United Nations.

The Tonal Comparative Method: Leveraging Lexical Tone in Historical Linguistics
Rikker Dockum, Yale University, Dartmouth College '04
Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 4:30 pm, Reed Hall 104
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Program in Linguistics

The Comparative Method (CM) is one of the primary tools of historical linguists for determining relationships between languages and reconstructing ancestor proto-languages. However, the CM has focused almost...