News and Events
- Congratulations to Bridget Smith, who has just been awarded one of the University's highly competitive Presidential Awards!
- Congratulations to Peter Culicover, who was recently elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science!
- Summer Linguistic Institute for Young Scholars 2012 (SLIYS): Two week-long July sessions for high school students fascinated by language
- Department Newsletter: Read the newest edition of the Department Newsletter
- Position Announcement: Computational Linguistics
- Linguistics Calendar: More info about department events.
- News Archive

We are saddened by the passing of our esteemed colleague Distinguished University Professor Ilse Lehiste, on December 25, 2010.
In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made online to the Ilse Lehiste Memorial Fund (#313586), or mailed to The Ohio State University Foundation, Office of University Development, 1480 West Lane Avenue, Columbus, OH 43221.
A webpage has been set up to honor Ilse. If you have thoughts, pictures or other things you would like to share, please send them to lingadm@ling.osu.edu
You are also invited to attend a memorial symposium celebrating Ilse's six decades of work on the melody and rhythms of language on 11-12 November 2011.
Faculty Distinctions
2 Distinguished University Professors,7 University Distinguished Scholar Award Recipients,
2 University Distinguished Service Award Recipients,
1 University Distinguished Undergraduate Mentor Award Recipient,
2 Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award Recipients,
4 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows,
College of Humanities Exemplary Faculty Award Recipient,
Honorary PhD Recipients,
NSF, NIH, NEH Award Recipients,
• Recent Distinctions of our Faculty
History of Linguistics at Ohio State

- Early History of OSU Linguistics (1970) [pdf]
- History of Phonetics at OSU [doc]
- Oxley Hall, the Home of OSU Linguistics
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