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 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 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".
- We are pleased to announce that Eun Hee Kim has successfully defended her dissertation, "Interpretation and Processing of Overt Pronouns in Korean, English, and L2-Acquisition," prepared under the direction of Professors James Yoon and Tania Ionin.
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