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Opportunities for Giving to CU Linguistics
The initiatives described below are key
areas in which your gift can help to advance
our research and teaching missions. You
can donate directly to CU Linguistics via
the CU
Linguistics link on the University
of Colorado Foundation website. If you
would like your gift applied to one of
the areas listed below, please select the
appropriate fund on the CU Foundation website.
If you would your donation applied to Empirical
and Computational Linguistics, please select
Other.
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Graduate
Student Research Fund
In the spring of 2007, the Linguistics
department created a Graduate Student
Research Award program to fund
data collection efforts, domestic
and international fieldwork trips
and travel for students presenting
papers at conferences. Learn
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Indigenous
Languages
The Department’s Center
for the Study of Indigenous Languages
of the West, focuses on the documentation
of Native American languages of
the western US and Canada. Members
assist tribal language-preservation
efforts. Learn
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Languages
of Africa
Most languages of Africa remain
undocumented, and many are also
endangered. Research efforts in
the Linguistics department have
produced dictionaries and grammars
of understudied languages of Nigeria,
Cameroon and Chad. Learn
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Linguistics Department Fund
Departmental research efforts
target a wide variety of languages
of Africa, the Americas, Asia and
Europe, and use a wide variety
of research tools and data sources,
including fieldwork, statistical
analysis of speech and collection
of child-language data. Learn
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Experimental
and Computational Linguistics
Experimental
and computational linguistics are
changing the way that language
data are collected and therefore
yielding new insights into how
we use and represent linguistic
knowledge. Learn
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