Before the turn of the next century, more than half of India’s 780 languages may die out. Dartmouth Linguistics Professor Laura McPherson discusses the challenge of dying languages in an article in the Los Angeles Review of Books....
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September 22, 2017
Save the date: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 @ 4:00 pm, Silsby 312, Natalie Schrimpf, Yale University (Dartmouth '12), Combining Topic Structure with Rhetorical Information for Automatic Summarization...
June 06, 2017
Linguistics major Emily Grabowski '18 is the 1st place winner of the Neukom Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Research in Computational Science for 2017. Emily received this award for her computational work on Prof. Laura McPherson's ATLAS project....
June 01, 2017
Corinne Kasper ’17, a linguistics major, is developing teaching tools to help people learn or re-learn an endangered language that she sees as a keystone of her culture....
May 30, 2017
Linguistics Program students take a side trip while on the New Zealand FSP (foreign studies program)., They planned their itinerary and learned a bit of Tongan.
May 17, 2017
Thursday, May 25, 2017, Dartmouth Hall, room 206, 4:30 pm. Presenting will be Maggie Baird, Corinne Kasper and Chaeyoon Kim. Free and open to the public!
May 11, 2017
Lecture by Jie Zhang, Kansas University, Thursday, May 18, 2017, 4:45 pm, Hood Museum, Wilson 219, reception to follow in Reed Hall, room 322, free and open to the public.
May 08, 2017
Dartmouth Linguistics Prof. Laura McPherson published an article in Women's ENews. Recently Google and Forbes both recognized African female entrepreneurs, highlighting the continent’s entrepreneurial energy.
April 26, 2017
Fifteen students and alumni have been offered Fulbright scholarships this year—the largest class of Dartmouth Fulbrights since 2014, according to Jessica Smolin, assistant dean for scholarship advising. Please congratulate Evelyn Fernandez-Lizarraga '16 and Joshua Warzecha '17....
April 06, 2017
Raffaella Zanuttini, Yale University, Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 4:45 pm, Haldeman 041