Spring 2020

Coming together in a time of crisis

Like for so many around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to many changes in the daily lives of all of the members of the Department of Linguistics. Late on the Monday of spring break, Ohio…

Meet the UnderLings

The UnderLings are the undergraduate linguistics club here at Ohio State, which organizes events and outreach within the department and with the larger…

Linguistics at Metro High School

Instructor Carly Dickerson (right) works with a Metro student during a visit to Oxley Carly Dickerson, a fifth year graduate student in the Ohio…

Joseph LSA Presidential address

Professor Brian Joseph gave the presidential address, titled "What is Time (and why should linguists care about it)?," (viewable here) at this year's Linguistics Society of America (LSA) Annual…

In Recognition

Professor Shari Speer has received the 2020 President and Provost’s Award for Distinguished Faculty Service. The award was presented (virtually!) to Shari by Provost McPheron. …

Graduate Student Presentations and Publications

Ohio State Linguistics graduate students have been presenting and publishing their work in venues around the world. Read below for some of their recent work. Carly Dickerson Dickerson, C. The…

Faculty Publications

Clopper, Cynthia Alcorn. S., Meemann, K., Clopper, C. G., & Smiljanic, R. (2020). Acoustic cues and linguistic experience as factors in regional dialect classification. Journal…

Alumni Updates

Katie Carmichael and Nicole Holliday at the LSA Katie Carmichael and Abby Walker (PhD '14) have both been awarded tenure in the Department…

Give to the Department of Linguistics

Funds and Programs that you can support... Our funds are listed below, in alphabetical order. If a page on the OSU iGive Web site for the fund exists, then the name of the fund is directly linked to…