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    The language of emoji

    Ben Weissman and Darren Tanner's work on how our brains process sarcastic emoji's.

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    Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) Conference

    CALICO 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

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    Professor Eyamba Bokamba retires after 44 years

    Professor 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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    Better understand your world

    Linguistics captures how we perceive the world around us and how we relate to one another.

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    So many choices

    Over 30 courses offered every semester

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  • Silvina Montrul has done pioneering work on the acquisition of Spanish and heritage language acquisition, along with research in other languages including English, Turkish, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, French, Romanian, and Brazilian Portuguese. (Photo by Jesse Wallace.)

    Talking more deeply about language

    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.
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More Department News

  • Chung-yu Chen receives NSF Dissertation Research Improvement Grant

    We are pleased to announce that PhD student Chung-yu Chen has received the NSF Dissertation Research Improvement Grant. Professor Tania Ionin is the PI.
  • Aida Talić’s Work on Syntax-Prosody Interface

    Last Friday, Dr. Talić gave an invited talk at UChicago, titled Accentogenic clitics and prosodic clitic incorporation by phase.
  • Kailen Shantz Receives Mike Shardwood Smith Award

    We are happy to announce that Ph.D alumnus Kailen Shantz has received the newly launched biennial Mike Sharwood Smith award for his paper, "Phrase frequency, proficiency and grammaticality interact in non-native processing: Implications for theories of SLA".
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