Through almost 19 years of research at Illinois, Silvina Montrul, professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Linguistics, and an affiliate at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, has become a leader in understanding bilingualism and second language acquisition.
The 2018 SILMW-Arabic High School ProgramFor the third year in a row and part of the Summer Institute for Languages of the Muslim World (SILMW), 15 high school students participated in an intensive immersion, two-week long Arabic course. This program was supported by the Linguistics Department and Qatar Foundation International (QFI).
The language of emojiBen Weissman and Darren Tanner's work on how our brains process sarcastic emoji's.
Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) ConferenceCALICO is an annual international conference focused on computers and language learning. Hosted here by Linguistics from May 29th to June 2nd, 2018. www.calico.org
Professor Eyamba Bokamba retires after 44 yearsProfessor Eyamba Bokamba retires at the end of Spring 2018 after 44 years of distinguished service. His contributions were recognized in a reception jointly hosted by the Department of Linguistics and the Center for African Studies on April 26, 2018.
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- We are pleased to announce that Myeong Hyeon Kim has successfully defended her dissertation, "Processing of Canonical and Scrambled Word Orders in Native and Non-native Korean," prepared under the direction of Professors Tania Ionin and James Yoon.
- Tania Ionin's and Ora Matushansky's book 'The Syntax and Semantics of Cardinal-Containing Expressions' has been published by The MIT Press in Linguistic Inquiry Monographs.
- Congratulations to Professor Xun Yan on his designation as a LEAP (Lincoln Excellence Award for Assistant Professors) scholar for 2018-19 academic year.
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