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American Sign Language News
(February 19, 2021)
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Featured Language: Tigrinya
(February 19, 2021)
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Faculty News
(February 19, 2021)
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Student News
(February 18, 2021)
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Computational Linguistics News
(February 18, 2021)
Alicia Wassink, Harriet Joyce Craven, Ethel Craven-Sweet, Jana Jefferson at Black Pioneer Family Annual Picnic
Historic family takes part in Pacific Northwest English Study
(October 19, 2020)
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Faculty profile: Naja Ferjan Ramírez
(October 6, 2020)
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CLMS News
(October 6, 2020)
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Featured Language: Inuktitut
(October 2, 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)
Linguistics faculty and alumna at AAAS 2020
Linguistics Professors and Graduate presented on ethnic/racial discrimination in ASR at the 2020 AAAS
(June 23, 2020)
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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)
Wenjun Ma
Wenjun Ma presents at at the Fourth Annual Berkeley Undergraduate Linguistics Symposium
(December 3, 2019)
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Joshua Crowgey defends dissertation entitled "Braiding Language: Lushootseed Grammar Engineering Constructions"
(August 27, 2019)
Jake McManus
Jake McManus presents at Undergraduate Research poster session
(August 21, 2019)
Emily M. Bender
Emily M. Bender is awarded Howard and Frances Nostrand Endowed Professorship for 2019-2022
(August 21, 2019)
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Department welcomes Shane Steinert-Threlkeld to the faculty
(April 30, 2019)
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Department welcomes Naja Ferjan Ramirez to the faculty
(April 30, 2019)
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Professor Sharon Hargus teaches Tigrinya field methods course
(January 22, 2019)
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UW Sociolinguists attend NWAV 2018
(December 4, 2018)
Professor Edith Aldridge
Prof. Edith Aldridge hosts Modality in Classical Chinese workshop
(November 1, 2018)
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UW Linguistics Department is saddened to report the passing of our dear friend and colleague Dr. Akira Omaki
(August 22, 2018)
Professor Citko at 2018 graduation ceremony
Congratulations to Profs. Citko and Ogihara for 2018 Linguistics Fund Award! 
(July 11, 2018)
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Professor Karen Zagona retires after 23 years at UW Linguistics 
(May 9, 2018)
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Department welcomes phonologist Gašper Beguš to our faculty 
(March 29, 2018)
Roberta Cordano Lecture
Captioned video now available of 2017 Annual Deaf Studies Lecture featuring Dr. Roberta Cordano of Gallaudet
(October 25, 2017)
Current students and alums at ACL 2017
Compling Students, Faculty, and Alums Well-represented at ACL Annual Meeting in Vancouver BC
(August 15, 2017)
Esther Le Grezause Dissertation Committee
Esther Le Grézause Defends Dissertation Entitled "Um and Uh, and the Expression of Stance in Conversational Speech"
(August 15, 2017)
Lydia Castro and Richard Wright
 Lydia Castro Presents Poster Entitled "The Acoustics of Deceit" at 20th Annual UW Undergraduate Research Symposium
(August 10, 2017)
2017 PhD Grads at Annual Party
Linguistics Celebrates 2017 PhD Graduates at Annual Recognition Party at UW Club
(August 10, 2017)
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 Linguistics PhD Candidate Marina Oganyan Successfully Defends Dissertation
(August 10, 2017)
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Congratulations Linguistics PhD Graduate Rachael Tatman!
(August 10, 2017)
Linguistics Service Recognition Celebration
Linguistics Service Recognition Celebration
(May 2, 2017)
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ASL Language Director Lance Forshay Signs the Constitution
(November 8, 2016)
Edith Aldridge
Edith Aldridge Awarded Nostrand Endowed Professorship
(October 21, 2016)
Goodbye Clarissa
Thank you and best wishes to Clarissa Surek-Clark
(June 24, 2016)
ASL Instructors
Interest in ASL program continues to rise with Autumn classes filled within a week of registration.
(May 17, 2016)
Akira Omaki
UW Linguistics welcomes Dr. Akira Omaki this Summer 2016
(April 26, 2016)
Ellen Kaisse
Colloquium in Honor of Prof. Ellen Kaisse on May 6 in Petersen Room
(April 25, 2016)
Emily Bender
Emily Bender to serve as Chair of the Executive Board of NAACL
(January 21, 2016)
Linguists vote for Word of the Year 2015
UW Faculty and Grads at LSA 2016 
(January 14, 2016)
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UW Linguistics graduate students and faculty participate in LSA annual meeting in Washington DC 
(January 6, 2016)
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Tibusungu Vayayana and Richard Wright present talk on Tsou language of Taiwan at "Language Shift in the Sinophone World" Workshop
(November 13, 2015)
Julia Herschensohn completes 15-year term as Chair of Linguistics on June 30th
(June 24, 2015)
 Linguistics awards Excellence in Linguistics Research Graduate Fellowship for 2015
(June 19, 2015)