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A recent article in the Denver Post highlighted Professor and Department Chair Andy Cowell 's language-revitalization work with the local Arapaho community. Also mentioned in the article were the contributions of graduate student Irina Wagner , who helped create an online dictionary that includes "an English-Arapaho translator as well as...

Linguistics Department Professor and Chair, Andrew Cowell , was recently interviewed by Channel 9 News for a segment on the Colorado dialect of English. During the interview, Prof. Cowell mentions historical factors that have contributed to the way Colorado English is spoken, as well as more recent influences from, for...

Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics, Andy Cowell , is one of the founders of the new Center for the Study of Origins , a destination for interdisciplinary origins studies. Professor Cowell was quoted in CU Boulder Today about a talk he gave connecting Polynesian and Arapaho origin...

Like spoken languages, sign languages differ greatly across the globe. Nonetheless, many deaf refugees are evaluated and declared to have no language ability and/or severe mental deficiencies simply because they cannot communicate in American Sign Language (ASL). Linguistics graduate student Pamela Wright is working to help these individuals communicate in...

CU Linguistics Professor and ICS Fellow Laura Michaelis , together with European collaborators, are organizing a two-day international interdisciplinary workshop on temporal meaning in language, to be held April 7-8, 2017 in the Center for Community on the CU Boulder campus. This workshop is sponsored by ICS as well as...

EXPLORING CHINA through ENGLISH TEACHING (5 weeks) Earn 6 credit hours Experience a rich cultural program Deadline to apply is MARCH 13! Connect with the Education Abroad Office! Center for Community (C4C) Room S355 Drop-in advising hours: 9-4:30 pm Mon-Fri - No appointment necessary abroad@colorado.edu 303.492.7741 Global Seminar Dates in...

The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce the launch of a new Certificate Program in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). For details about the program, visit the website here . Please contact tesol@colorado.edu with any questions.

Professor and Chair Andy Cowell, and graduate student Irina Wagner, were recently interviewed for an article in "CU Boulder Today" about their work with the Arapaho Language Project. Read the article here: http://www.colorado.edu/today/2017/01/10/pushing-boundaries-saving-arapa... . For more information about the Arapaho Language Project, visit: http://www.colorado.edu/csilw/alp/

Faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students gathered in early December to honor the career of Professor David Rood , who is retiring this year after having been a member of the Department since 1967. Prof. Rood's primary research has been the documentation of two endangered Native American languages, Wichita (Caddoan...

Professor Kira Hall (CU-Boulder Linguistics), Professor Donna M. Goldstein (CU-Boulder Anthropology), and Matthew Bruce Ingram (Ph.D. student, UT-Austin) recently published an article titled “The Hands of Donald Trump: Entertainment, gesture, spectacle,” in the October issue of HAU Journal of Ethnographic Theory. Their findings were also highlighted in Colorado Arts and...