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David Mora-Marín invited talk at Museo del Jade (Costa Rica)
February 25, 2021 |David Mora-Marín gave a (remote) presentation this week at the Museo del Jade y de la Cultura Precolombina in Costa Rica, on inscriptions on Mayan jade pendants found in Costa Rica …
Katya Pertsova keynote at InterSlavic 2020/2021
February 25, 2021 |Katya Pertsova gave a keynote presentation at a conference, International/Interslavic 2020/2021: Internationalisms in Slavic as a window into the architecture of grammar, hosted by the University of Graz …
Jennifer Smith colloquium talk at Universität Leipzig
February 18, 2021 |Jen Smith gave an invited colloquium talk, “A tale of two alternations: Productivity and phonetic naturalness in a nonce-loanword judgment task,” at the University of Leipzig (remotely) on Wednesday, February 17 …
Spanish as a Heritage Language lecture series
January 28, 2021 |The Department of Linguistics is co-sponsoring the Department of Romance Studies’ lecture series: Spanish as a Heritage Language, a series of three invited talks during February and March. More information …
UNC linguists at the 2021 LSA and sister society meetings
January 11, 2021 |A number of UNC linguistics students, faculty, and alumni presented over the weekend at the 2021 annual meetings of the Linguistic Society of America and North American Research Network on Historical Sociolinguistics …
David Mora-Marín interviewed by Spectrum News
December 22, 2020 |David Mora-Marín has been interviewed by Spectrum News 1 North Carolina about new English words and new word meanings that have developed during the Coronavirus pandemic …
Special courses in Spring 2021
December 12, 2020 |In the spring semester, our department will offer several courses of special interest (less frequent or Special Topics courses). This includes the following classes …
Brian Hsu at NELS 51
November 10, 2020 |Brian Hsu presented this past weekend at the 51st Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 51), hosted online by the Université du Québec à Montréal …
Leah Dudley presents at the 5th Annual CLIC Conference
November 10, 2020 |Current MA student Leah Dudley presented her work recently at the 5th annual Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication, hosted online by Rice University …
Sean Foley presents at ICSTLL 53
October 5, 2020 |Current MA student Sean Foley presented recently at the 53rd International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, hosted (remotely) by the University of North Texas …