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Several UNC linguists and alumni presented recently at this year's combined annual meetings of the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference and Studies in the History of the English Language, hosted at Brigham Young University. They presented the following works ... The post UNC linguists at GLAC 32, SHEL 14 appeared first on Department of Linguistics .
Two of our graduate students are recipients of 2026-27 Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards. Recent MA graduate Annika Herlant has received a teaching assistant award to Malta, and current MA student Lei Willard has received a research award to South Korea. Congratulations, Lei and Annika! The post Annika Herlant and Lei Willard receive 2026-2027 Fulbright awards appeared first on Department of …
MA student Annika Herlant, faculty member Brian Hsu, and Hispanic Linguistics Ph.D student Jonathan Kear (MA 2025) recently presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, at the University of Chicago. They presented the following works ... The post Annika Herlant, Brian Hsu, and Jonathan Kear at CLS 62 appeared first on Department of Linguistics .
Graduating MA student Zhongyu (Alex) Hu has accepted an admissions offer to the Ph.D program in linguistics at the University of Maryland. Congratulations, Zhongyu! The post Zhongyu Hu to Ph.D program at University of Maryland appeared first on Department of Linguistics .
Recent graduate Emma Wrenn (BA 2024, MA 2025) has accepted an admissions offer to the Ph.D program in linguistics at McGill University. Congratulations, Emma! The post Emma Wrenn to Ph.D program at McGill appeared first on Department of Linguistics .
Graduating MA student Brandon Osgan has accepted an admissions offer to the Ph.D program in linguistics at Stony Brook University. Congratulations, Brandon! The post Brandon Osgan to Ph.D program at Stony Brook appeared first on Department of Linguistics .
An article by faculty member David Mora-Marín, "A reappraisal of the development of the Mayan Syllabary" has been published in Written Language & Literacy. The article is available on the journal's website ... The post David Mora-Marín in Written Language & Literacy appeared first on Department of Linguistics .
UNC-Chapel Hill, particularly our graduate Hispanic Linnguistics program, was heavily represented at this year's Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina and Spanish Linguistics in the Southeast conference, hosted last week by the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Our students and faculty presented the following works ... The post UNC linguists at SLINKI/SLISE 2026 appeared first on Departmen…
Faculty member Katya Pertsova recently presented at the 23rd Old-World Conference in Phonology, hosted by the University of Cambridge. She presented two papers co-authored with UNC linguists ... The post UNC linguists at OCP 23 appeared first on Department of Linguistics .
Brian Hsu
1/20/2026
Professor Emeritus Paul Roberge delivered a keynote presentation at the Texas Symposium on Classifying Contact Varieties, hosted this past weekend at the University of Texas at Austin. His talk was titled "Linguistic profiling within a sane creology." The conference was organized by alumnus Hans Boas (Ph.D 2000) ... The post Paul Roberge keynote presentation at Texas Symposium on Classifying Cont…
Faculty member Misha Becker has been awarded an Institute for the Arts and Humanities Faculty Fellowship for the Spring 2027 semester. During the fellowship, she will pursue a project “The Language of Intention”. Congratulations, Misha! The post Misha Becker receives IAH Faculty Fellowship for Spring 2027 appeared first on Department of Linguistics .
MA student Brandon Osgan presented at this year's Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, hosted in New Orleans. He presented a talk, "Vowel Reduction is Conditioned by Quality and Quantity Interactions: Evidence from Bolognese." The post Brandon Osgan at 2026 LSA annual meeting appeared first on Department of Linguistics .
Faculty member David Mora-Marín and recent graduate Emma Wrenn (MA 2025) each presented work at the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas' 2026 Annual Meeting, hosted in New Orleans and online. They presented the following ... The post David Mora-Marín and Emma Wrenn at SSILA 2026 appeared first on Department of Linguistics .
MA student Ana Kisley presented last weekend at the 2025 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, hosted in New Orleans. She presented a flash talk: "New approaches to the study of Copador glyph bands: Developing a catalog and corpus for a quantitative analysis of glyph band structure." The post Ana Kisley at American Anthropological Association 2025 appeared first on Department of Li…
MA student Brandon Osgan presented last weekend at this year's Western Conference on Linguistics, hosted online by Pázmány Péter Catholic University. He presented a talk: "Quality and quantity contribute independently to sonority: Evidence from Bolognese vowel reduction." The post Brandon Osgan at WECOL 2025 appeared first on Department of Linguistics .