2019-09-24
- The following instructors are rated as Excellent in the past semesters of 2019. Congratulations and keep up the good work!
ESL
Linguistics/LCTL/SILMW
Summer 2019
FAIVRE, Susan
*GENT, Helen
KOTNAROWSKI, John
MILLER, Cheyenne
PENNELL, Jin
*ROSADO, Cassandra
ABDULLA, Wafa
*HERMES, Zainab
*LUTOMIA, Anne...
- 2019-09-11 - Dr. Ryan Shosted, who has worked with Urbana-Champaign’s Q’anjob’al-speaking community to publish Maya literacy materials and help educate the non-Maya community about the Q'anjob'al language, was interviewed by WLRN, a Florida-based public radio station, about issues concerning Mayan languages.
- 2019-09-06 - The orientation slides for new PhD students in Linguistics have been uploaded to Box
- 2019-08-21 - Dear all, My warmest wishes to everyone as we are set to begin an exciting new academic year. For those of you joining us for the first time, welcome! And for those who are returning, I hope you had a productive and enjoyable summer. The following is a list of new students and faculty joining us this year. FACULTY 1. Guillermo Del Pinal - Assistant Professor of Philosophy...
- 2019-07-09 - Congratulations to Mien-Jen Wu and her advisor Tania Ionin on being awarded the NSF DDRIG (doctoral dissertation research improvement grant).
- 2019-06-05 - In The Nigerien connection, the LAS newsletter recently profiled Hassana Alidou, an alumna of the Linguistics Department who is currently the ambassador for the United States from Niger. Please read read the article here to learn about Alidou's accomplishments and experience here at UIUC.
- 2019-05-20 - Professor Katharine O. Aston passed away in the early morning of May 16. She was 101 years old. Funeral arrangements are made by Owens Funeral Home, but there will be no visitation. A memorial service (mass) will be held at 10 am, Friday, May 24, at St. John's Catholic Church (Newman Center), at 604 E. Armory, Champaign IL. An obituary appears in News-Gazette, Sunday...
2019-05-03 - Dr. Eman Saadah has been promoted to Teaching Associate Professor effective Fall 2019
2019-04-25 - The Awards and Graduation Celebration for the Department of Linguistics will be held on Wednesday, May 1st from 4 - 6 PM in Room 314A in the Illini Union.- 2019-04-25 - Congratulations to the students of the Linguistics Department who have received awards this year! Departmental Student Awards Outstanding Undergraduate in Linguistics Award - Grace Moran, Sean Chapman, Aidan San Student Leadership Award - Amy Gorgone, Sarah Clark, Chelsey Norman Silver Jubilee Award for Outstanding TA in Linguistics Courses - Patrick Drackley, Anita...
- 2019-04-04 - The IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing can be accessed here.
- 2019-02-09 - 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.
- 2019-01-21 - Last Friday, Dr. Talić gave an invited talk at UChicago, titled "Accentogenic clitics and prosodic clitic incorporation by phase".
2019-01-11 - 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". The Mike Sharwood Smith award is given to the best article published in the journal Second Language Research. SLR is a...
2018-12-18 - 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.