The following students have won Fulbright or DAAD fellowships: Abigail Bard ’14, Major: Linguistics; Japanese minor and Gabriela Meade ’14, Major: Cognitive science; human development and education and Hispanic studies minors...

Kayla Eisman '09 (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Kenneth Baclawski '12 (University of California, Berkeley) are two out of seventeen Dartmouth graduates to be awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships this year....

Linguistics and Psychology major Rachael Lapidis '04 shares an update on her life and career since graduating ten years ago....

In August 2013, Dartmouth linguists hosted the 46th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics.

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a study by James Stanford, an assistant professor of linguistics and cognitive science, Kenneth Baclawski Jr. ’12, and Thomas Leddy-Cecere ’10, who write about the dropped R after vowels and other variations in spoken English in New England....

How does Twitter help words become shortened versions of themselves? Dartmouth researchers mined 180 million tweets from 900,000 users to understand the use of clipped words—think “awk” for “awkward,” or “defs” for “definite”— reports NPR....

For many Dartmouth students, Alaska may as well be halfway across the world. But for Meghan Topkok ’13, it is her family’s home. Topkok is a member of the Iñupiaq Tribe of northwestern Alaska, and has spent two leave terms working in Alaska on issues related to economic development and child welfare....

The New York Times reports on a study by James Stanford, an assistant professor of linguistics and cognitive science, Kenneth Baclawski Jr. ’12, and Thomas Leddy-Cecere ’10, who say New England’s distinctive accent is fading away....

In an interview with Vermont Public Radio (VPR), Professor James Stanford explained that the Green Mountains of Vermont no longer serve as the divide for eastern and western speech patterns in New England.