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Dr. Rai Farrelly , CU Linguistics Director of TESOL Certificate Programs , has been elected to the Nominating Committee of the TESOL International Association . This committee of eight individuals represents the entire TESOL membership in determining the slate of candidates for the Board of Directors and President for the...

2019 Linguistics PhD graduate Tim O'Gorman , an expert in deep learning of semantic representations and corpus development, has taken a post-doctoral research position at the UMass Information Extraction and Synthesis Laboratory , working with Prof. Andrew McCallum. The aim of IESL is to increase our ability to mine actionable...

CU Linguistics 2017 PhD graduate Sam Beer, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Virginia, has received a grant from the Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) program, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) intended to develop...

Linguistics PhD student Jared Desjardins, an award-winning graduate teacher and teacher trainer, received a Graduate Student, Professional Student, and Postdoctoral Scholar Development Grant to attend, and present at, the Forty-Fourth Annual Conference of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 13–17, 2019. This...

The Department is pleased to announce that, on Monday, November 11th, Marcus Avelar successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “Urban Spirits: Language, Race, and Modernity among Umbandistas in São Paulo, Brazil.” Committee members characterized the dissertation as a “page turner,” which speaks to the elegance with which Marcus was able to...

Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine interviewed Prof. Chase Raymond about a recent study, published in Language and Communiciation , in which he and colleagues examined the Senate Judiciary Committee's questioning of then-Supreme Court Justice nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. In collaboration with CU-Boulder Linguistics PhD alumnus, Nick...

Prof. Kira Hall ’s undergraduate course on Language and Digital Media is central to a recent article published in CPR News (October 30, 2019). Titled “Teens Aren’t Breaking Language, They’re Adding To It,” the article focuses on the rapidly evolving nature of digital forms of expression. Drawing from research conducted...

The Department is excited to announce that our very own Prof. Bhuvana Narasimhan has been selected to receive one of this year’s Provost’s Faculty Achievement Awards in recognition of work for pathbreaking collaborative research at the intersection of language, development, and cognition, which demonstrates cross-linguistic variation in how meanings are...

We are happy to announce the publication of Colorado Research in Linguistics (CRIL)’s twenty fourth volume, after a nearly 7-year hiatus! CRIL 24 covers a broad range of topics, from indexicality and language and identity , to Construction Grammar , NLP, and corpus linguistics , drawing upon linguistic data from...

Dr. Mia Thomas-Ružić retired this year after many years of service to the Department of Linguistics as a TESOL instructor, advisor and administrator. Among many other things, she was the heart and brains behind our TESOL BA certificate program , and even as she approached retirement, was the developer of...