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Autumn 2024
Autumn 2024
In this issue
Brian Joseph: transition to Emeritus
This year, the Ohio State University’s Department of Linguistics marked a major diachronic event: Brian D. Joseph, a member of the department for 45 years, has transitioned from professor to emeritus…
Interview: Elizabeth Ruth Lwanga King
Ohio State Linguistics alumna Elizabeth Ruth Lwanga King was awarded an honorary doctorate in Public Service at the August 2024 commencement ceremony. The citation for her honorary degree reads:…
Welcome to new department members!
Joy Peltier is joining us as an assistant professor. She comes to us from the University of South Carolina, where she was an assistant…
In Recognition
Assistant Professor of Teaching Hope Dawson has been awarded the Victoria A. Fromkin Lifetime Service Award in 2025 from the Linguistic Society of America for her work on the journal Language.…
Graduate Student Presentations and Publications
Alyssa AllenAllen, A., Lewis, A., Lin, Y.-C., Kaumenova, T., and White, M. 2024. OSU CompLing at the GEM’24 Data-to-Text Task. In Proceedings of the 17th International Natural Language…
Faculty Publications
Cynthia ClopperClopper, C. G. 2024. Dynamic acoustic vowel distances within and across dialects. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 156, 2497-2507.Lilley, K. D., Ross, J. P., Bissell…
Events
In August, graduates Rexhina Ndoci, Ariana Steele, Byung-Doh Oh, and Marie Bissell (not pictured) were hooded at the Summer commencement ceremony.…