Dr. Kira Hall, Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, has been awarded the title of Distinguished Professor, the highest designation the university awards to faculty. 

Joseph Dupris, PhD, Linguistics/Ethnic Studies CU Boulder (Modoc) served as an onsite language collaborator and coach during the scripting and shooting of this film at the historic site of the conflict, Lava Beds National Monument in NE California. 

If you are a CU undergraduate or graduate student and seek professional opportunities teaching English learners either in the US or abroad, CU Linguistics can get you there. Senior Instructor of TESOL Theory and Practice Dr. Rai Farrelly, director of the current undergraduate certificate in TESOL, directs the undergraduate TESOL minor, the TESOL track and the graduate certificate in TESOL. 

Dr. Alexis Palmer has joined the faculty of CU Linguistics as an Assistant Professor of computational linguistics. Dr. Palmer is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award, "From one Language to another", is an expert in computational discourse and semantics, computational linguistics for low-resource languages, and social media analytics. Her research and teaching activities will further enhance the stature of CU Boulder as a center of scholarship and training in computational linguistics and natural language processing. 

The best teachers always somehow know when a student is confused, excited or bored by class content. Could an AI system capture what our best teachers do in the classroom every day? A new $20 milllion NSF-sponsored CU Center co-led by CU CSCI/LING professor Martha Palmer will explore this question. She and her team will develop better tools for collaborative learning through artificial intelligence. 

CU Linguistics offers a MS in Computational Linguistics, Analytics, Search and Informatics (CLASIC), an interdisciplinary degree providing a solid foundation in computer science and linguistics, as well as coursework in data-driven linguistics, computational linguistics and information processing. Apply by December 15 (international) or January 15 (domestic). For questions contact director Professor Martha Palmer. 

Researchers in the sociocultural linguistics program at CU Boulder analyze the ways that language contributes to organizations of social life in diverse contexts, whether local, regional, national, or global. Prof. Kira Hall is director of the interdisciplinary CLASP program on Culture, Language, and Social Practice, which sponsors innovative research initiatives, visiting scholars, and an internationally recognized biannual conference.

How might universal but often arbitrary patterns arise across the languages of the world? Practitioners of Construction Grammar reject the prevailing view that they come from a genetically specified 'Universal Grammar', instead viewing them as products of cultural transmission, adapted to communicative needs and routines. CU Linguistics Professor Laura Michaelis, shown at the Tenth International Conference on Construction Grammar, is a leading proponent of Construction Grammar.