On March 27th, Dr. Brendan Regan will be visiting WFU campus to give two talks: one about his research on Spanish linguistics and the second about professional alternatives for language majors beyond jobs in academia.
Taste the fun of Linguistics! Swing by the Greene Hall Atrium (317) to chat with Linguistics professors, meet your classmates, and share a sweet treat! Thursday, February 6th9-10a or 2:45-3:45p
Did you know that there are languages without adjectives!? Imagine the consequences of expressing adjectival notions by means of verbs. Learn how Cherokee broke away from this pattern shared by its Iroquoian cousins and glimpse the archaic verbal roots still present in Cherokee adjectives. Talk […]
This presentation introduces the design, sampling, and datacollection of a new corpus of spoken American English: theLancaster-Northern Arizona Corpus of Spoken AmericanEnglish (LANA-CASE). The goal of the project is to compile apublicly available, large-scale corpus of both written and spokenAmerican English which can serve as […]
Interdisciplinary Linguistics Program presents Challenges And Solutions In The Development Of Language Corpora In Quechua by Dr. Chad Howe at the University of Georgia on Thursday, April 18, at 3:30 p.m. in 313 Greene Hall. Abstract: Creating corpora, even for well-resourced languages, presents numerous challenges, […]