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Autumn 2016
Autumn 2016
In this issue
Congratulations
Congratulations to Peter Culicover, who was made a Distinguished University Professor last Spring. The title was formally conferred on him at the meeting of the Board of Trustees on June 3…
Linguistics in New Zealand
This was the inaugural year of Global May Study Abroad New Zealand, a linguistics-oriented education abroad program presented in collaboration with the University of Canterbury in Christchurch. The…
Welcome: Ashwini Deo
Professor Ashwini Deo has accepted the position of associate professor with tenure in the Department of Linguistics and will join us in the coming year. Her research areas include Semantics/…
Welcome to our 2016 Graduate Students!
From left to right: Shuan Osman Karim holds a BA with honors in Linguistics and Japanese from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught English abroad in Iraq, and is currently offering…
Language Files: 12th Edition
Congratulations to Hope Dawson and Mike Phelan, editors of Language Files, the 12th edition, now available for purchase. The Ohio State University Press has posted a new webpage (check it out!)…
Space Update
We are looking forward to another year in Ohio stadium. In the meantime, plans continue for our move back into Oxley. Work began in Oxley this Autumn, and we may be able to move again as soon as…
Linguistics in the News
Check out this article about Micha Elsner's “Where's Waldo” article in Frontiers in Psychology (with A. Clarke (Essex) and H. Rohde (Edinburgh)). The piece, about…
In Recognition
Congratulations to faculty member Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, who has received the 2014–15 Rodica C. Botoman Award. The award provides $5,000 to a faculty member in the humanities who best…
Grad Student Presentations and Publications
Martha Austen: "'Finna Put the Groceries Up': Comparing Black and White Regional Variation" presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 45. Jefferson Barlew: Barlew, J. (2016).…
Faculty Publications
Mary Beckman 2015. Edwards, J., Beckman, M. E., & Munson, B. “Frequency effects in phonological acquisition.” Journal of Child Language, 42(2): 306-311. 2015. Holliday, J. J., Reidy, P.…
Alumni Updates
Alumni Updates Robin Dautricourt (PhD ’10) accepted a position at Amazon, working with the Alexa Language Technologies team at Amazon headquarters in Seattle, Washington. Kodi Weatherholtz…