Announcements

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What Have UW Linguists Been Up to in Autumn?
(January 10, 2025)
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Fall 2024 Linguistics Colloquium Series
(October 22, 2024)
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4th Sound Systems of Latin America (SSLA 4): Registration Now Open!
(October 22, 2024)
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Remembering Virginia Beavert
(May 24, 2024)
Guggenheim Hall on a sunny spring day.
NACLO 2024 at the University of Washington
(October 10, 2023)
Prof. Richard Wright
Chair's Welcome
(September 8, 2023)
Betsy Evans
Betsy Evans named the new Executive Director of the American Dialect Society
(September 5, 2023)
Trent Ukasick
Trent Ukasick receives the Chester Fritz International Research and Study Fellowship and the Endangered Language Fund’s Sharing Language Diversity Fellowship
(September 5, 2023)
C.M. Downey Poster
C. M. Downey receives Presidential Dissertation Fellowship
(September 5, 2023)
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Congratulations to Professors Qi Cheng, Sharon Hargus, Naja Ferjan Ramírez and Richard Wright.
(September 5, 2023)
Emily Ahn and Sara Ng
Emily Ahn and Sara Ng receive Excellence in Linguistic Research Awards
(September 5, 2023)
Jessa Jeter and Emily Ahn
Summer 2023 Highlights
(September 5, 2023)
Alessio Tosolini
Alessio Tosolini receives Chester William Fritz Humanities Scholarship
(May 4, 2023)
Gayle Stygall
Gail Stygall endowment
(April 28, 2023)
Andrew Hedding
Andrew Hedding recent hire
(April 28, 2023)
Barbara Citko
Barbara Citko awarded Nostrand Professorship
(April 28, 2023)
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UG Linguistics Society
(April 28, 2023)
Emily M. Bender
Emily M. Bender AAAS Fellow
(February 1, 2023)
Naja Ferjan Ramírez
Ferjan Ramírez Distinguished Professorship in Language Acquisition and Multilingualism 
(February 1, 2023)
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Linguistics: Good to go for another 10 years
(February 1, 2023)
Harold Schiffman
Harold Schiffman (in memoriam)
(February 1, 2023)
Rob Squizzero
Spring 2022 PhD Rob Squizzero
(September 15, 2022)
Richard Wright at ASA annual meeting
Letter from the Chair
(September 2, 2022)
Andrew Hedding
Welcome Andrew Hedding
(September 2, 2022)
Alicia Beckford Wassink
Lockwood Scholar Alicia Beckford Wassink
(September 2, 2022)
Virginia Beavert
Virginia Beavert celebrates 100th birthday
(January 10, 2022)
Jiahui Huang bench at Guggenheim
Jiahui Huang memorial bench installed
(January 10, 2022)
Richard Wright at ASA annual meeting
UW linguists at Acoustical Society of America 
(January 10, 2022)
Fritz Newmeyer
Fritz Newmeyer elected Secretary-Treasurer of Linguistic Society of America—again!
(January 10, 2022)
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New Courses
(September 3, 2021)
Anna Moroz
PhD Awarded: Anna Moroz
(September 3, 2021)
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Jiahui Huang, Memorial Service
(July 1, 2021)
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Featured alumnus: Adam Werle
(May 10, 2021)
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ASL Program
(May 10, 2021)
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Featured language:  Kham
(May 10, 2021)
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Faculty Profile
(May 10, 2021)
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Student News
(May 10, 2021)
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UW Linguistics welcomes Myriam Lapierre
(May 10, 2021)
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Faculty involvement in Linguistic Society of America
(May 10, 2021)
Graduation at Husky Stadium
Congratulations to our 2021 Linguistics graduates!
(April 20, 2021)
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Congratulations to Leanne Rolston, PhD
(March 25, 2021)
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Faculty profile: Naja Ferjan Ramírez
(October 6, 2020)
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American Sign Language News
(October 2, 2020)
Linguistics Chair Richard Wright
Message from Chair Richard Wright
(October 2, 2020)
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Graduate Program News
(September 30, 2020)
Black Lives Matter
UW Linguistics Anti-Racism Statement
(June 30, 2020)
2019 PhD graduates in doctoral regalia at graduation
Congratulations to our Linguistics graduates!
(May 11, 2020)
Suzzalo Graduate Reading Room
Formal Approaches in Slavic Languages (FASL) 29 conference goes all online!
(April 24, 2020)
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Teaching & Telework Spring 2020
(March 30, 2020)
Emily M. Bender
Emily M. Bender interview about AI appears on Inside Science
(March 5, 2020)