Recent News
On Saturday, the 15th of October, UW hosted the 20-year celebration of our CLMA/CLMS program at wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House.
The Linguistics Society of America has issued Update #321 to its newsletter this week, and our very own Sharon Hargus is on the front page!
The Arienne Dwyer Award selection committee, Myriam and Andrew, have chosen Sunny Ananthanarayan to receive this year's award for his research on the role of sociolinguistics in language documentation and his documentation of Amazonian languages.Congratulations, Sunny!
Congratulations to Saiya Karamali, a PhD candidate in t
At the end of August 2025, six members of the SocioLinx team (Alicia Wassink, Ty Gill-Saucier, Flo Humbert, Amina Venton, Chase Fossen, and Devyn Brandt) traveled to Tucson, Arizona to collect data for the Bias in ASR project.
Dr. Qi Cheng (Primary Investigator) and collaborator Dr. Christina Zhao (Co-Investigator) received a National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) Early Career Research(ECR) Award (R21, $375,000 total direct) to support a three-year project.
Sharon Hargus received a National Science Foundation grant for a study on Witsuwit'en Syntax and Intonation. The project will collect information on sentence-level grammar (syntax and intonation) of Witsuwit'en (bcr), an endangered Dene (Athabaskan) language spoken in northern British Columbia, Canada.