2025-02-18 - Congratulations to Dr. Eman Saadah, who has not only been selected for LAS Dean’s Award in Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, but also for the campus level award: the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching! This award...

2025-02-14 - The 17th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS17) will be held from March 7-8, 2025 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ILLS is an annual graduate student-run conference aimed primarily at providing graduate and advanced undergraduate students a friendly venue in which they can present and discuss research on any topic...

2025-02-08 - The 6th Annual Sociolinguistics Symposium (SOSY) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign celebrates a quarter-century of sociolinguistic innovation and inquiry. This milestone symposium, with the theme Expanding Horizons: A Sociolinguistics Beyond Boundaries, invites us to critically explore and transcend the limits of conventional...

2025-01-29 - José Ignacio Hualde, Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, has been honored with a two-volume festschrift, Hualderen omenaldia ("Hualde's Tribute").  The festschrift has been edited by Julen Manterola, Joseba Lakarra, and Gorka Elordieta and was published in the Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca “Julio de Urquijo”. The volume will be presented to him on 20...

2025-01-29 - We are excited to welcome back many reading groups this semester!   If you are considering joining a new reading group, please take a look at the groups below, or learn more on our Reading and Discussion Groups page.    Spring 2025 Calendar The links below will take you to the current...

2025-01-20 - We are excited to announce that PhD candidate Elizabeth King accepted a faculty position in the School of Education at Asbury University, a liberal arts college in Kentucky. She will be an Assistant Professor of ESL teaching in their traditional undergraduate P-12 education major, MA program, and MA in Teaching program. Her students will be current and future teachers focusing on ESL education....

2024-12-21 - The 6th Annual Sociolinguistics Symposium (SOSY) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign celebrates a quarter-century of sociolinguistic innovation and inquiry. This milestone symposium, with the theme Expanding Horizons: A Sociolinguistics Beyond Boundaries, invites us to critically explore and transcend the limits of conventional...

2024-12-21 - We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the 17th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS17), which will be held from March 7-8, 2025 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ILLS is an annual graduate student-run conference aimed primarily at providing graduate and advanced undergraduate students a friendly venue in...

2024-12-12 - This Summer and Fall 2024, many graduate students from the UIUC Linguistics department presented their research at conferences near and far.  Let’s take the time to congratulate each of them for their dedication to their work and their excellent representation of our department!   At the beginning of the summer term, MATESL student Raihan Rahman presented the...

2024-11-12 - This past weekend, several researchers from UIUC presented their work at the 49th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. The Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) is one of the largest student-run linguistics conferences in the world. BUCLD is an internationally recognized meeting of researchers in language acquisition and development, including first...

2024-11-07 - We are pleased to announce that recent PhD graduate, Dr. Ping-Lin Chuang will be working with Duolingo after graduation. Congratulations on this exciting next step Ping-Lin! Please read the interview below to learn more about this exciting opportunity: Tell us a bit about this position I will be joining Duolingo as a Language Assessment Scientist in December 2024. I will be...

2024-10-29 - The UIUC Arabic Debate Team's performance at the National Arabic Debate Championships was highlighted in The Daily Illini!  Check out the article (linked below) celebrating their achievement of placing fourth amongst non-native speaking teams.

2024-10-25 - After several years of planning, we are finally launching our first annual departmental newsletter, which we hope will become a regular tradition going forward. You can read the newsletter here. 

2024-10-11 -  The University of Illinois just hosted the 29th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference (MidPhon 29)!  The Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference is an annual meeting that brings together phonetics and phonology researchers from the Midwestern region of the United States....

2024-10-10 - This year, the 25th MwALT (Midwest Association of Language Testers) Conference was hosted by DuoLingo in Pittsburgh, PA, from October 4th-5th. The MwALT conference focuses on balancing validity, reliability, and practicality in test design. This year's presentations highlight the challenge of ensuring accurate and consistent results while considering practical concerns like cost, time, and...