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Spring 2023

Spring 2023

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Alumni interview with Kate Kinnaird
Kate Kinnaird graduated in the Spring of 2022 with a BA in Linguistics and a French minor.Tell us about your job. Where are you working, and what is your job title? I work at the Massachusetts…
Julie McGory next to the sign for the courtyard
Courtyard renovations
The Linguistics department met on April 25th to honor Julie McGory, our recently retired undergraduate coordinator, and celebrate her efforts to provide new furniture for the Oxley Hall courtyard. We…
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Rare course offerings this semester
Ohio State’s linguistics department has always been known for fascinating and sometimes creative “rare” course offerings long beloved by students, such as Ling 3801 “Codes and Codebreaking”, with its…
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The Buckeye Language Network Symposium
At the end of March, the department hosted the 9th Annual Buckeye Language Network (BLN) Symposium in-person. The BLN symposium was organized by our own Björn Köhnlein, and the Symposium featured…
Jory Ross with Hope Dawson after winning the teaching award
In Recognition
Graduate student Ariana Steele has been awarded a Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme Graduate Team Fellowship for their project in the Abolition and Freedom Dreams theme for the 2023-2024…
Anna Boyer with her poster at the Denman
Undergraduate Achievements
Maddie Bloomquist presented “Examining linguistic behavior of a virtual museum guide” at the CCBS Undergraduate Poster Session and at the CCBS HumCog365 outreach event. Anna Boyer presented “Video…
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Graduate Student Presentations and Publications
Marie Bissell Bissell, M. 2023. “Placing /aw/ retraction in the retreat from the Southern Vowel Shift in Raleigh, North Carolina”. Journal of English Linguistics, 51(1): 66-83. Bissell, M. 2023. “A…
Prerna Nadathur presenting at the BLN symposium
Faculty Publications
Kathryn Campbell-Kibler Austen, Martha and Kathryn Campbell-Kibler. 2022. “Real time speaker evaluation: How useful is it and what does it measure?” Language. 98(2), e108-e130.   Micha Elsner…
People at the end-of-year reception
Events
The department welcomed prospective students for a visit in February (and got some table tennis in).      We had a visit from professional…
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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…