Mamadou Diabate’s music is also speech, says linguist Laura McPherson....
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October 05, 2018
The Tonal Comparative Method: Leveraging Lexical Tone in Historical Linguistics, Rikker Dockum, Yale University, D'04,Tues., Oct. 23, 2018, 4:30 pm, Reed Hall 104, Free and open to the public....
June 28, 2018
Please consider participating in a brief survey as part of a research study being conducted by Laura McPherson from the Linguistics Program at Dartmouth College. The research study is designed to look at attitudes towards tone in linguistics. It should take no more than 5-10 minutes. The aim of the survey is to get a more concrete understanding of how our field handles tone in teaching and research and where we could improve. Your participation is voluntary. Feel free to pass along to colleagues and friends at any level (undergraduate to faculty).
June 13, 2018
We celebrated the graduation of our Dartmouth Linguistics majors and minors on June 10, 2018.
May 16, 2018
Wednesday, May 23, 2018, 3:30pm-5:00pm, Reed Hall 108, Anissa Gladney, Emily Grabowski and Jennifer Kuo will present their senior thesis.
February 19, 2018
Hilaria Cruz's class collection of children’s books in indigenous languages are on display this week at Baker Library. Cruz was also interviewed on NHPR (link). She will give a brief talk at Baker Library in an opening reception Tues. 6:30....
February 12, 2018
There will be a public exhibit—in the main lobby of the Baker Library from February 19 to February 22— of children’s-books in three indigenous North American Languages: Objiwe, spoken in Minnesota, Hupa, spoken in California, and the Chatino, spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico. The books were constructed in her LING 11/NAS 40 course this winter term....
December 21, 2017
Egophoric systems with binary indexing distinctions have been described for a number of languages of Northwest China’s Amdo Sprachbund. Lecture by Keith Slater, SIL, Univ. of North Dakota, Thurs. Feb. 22, 2018, Reed 108 @ 4:45 pm, free and open to the public....
December 18, 2017
Signed languages provide a fascinating view of grammaticalization: the process of language change in which words or phrases take on new grammatical functions. Lecturer: Kate Mesh, University of Haifa, Israel, Wed. 2-7-18, 12:15 pm, Rockefeller Class of 1930's room...
November 29, 2017
Neukom post-doctoral fellow Hilaria Cruz has developed a film that will be used for research on lesser-studied languages in Mexico.