Research

The department specializes in the core theoretical areas of syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, and phonetics as well as in computational linguistics, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics. To support this research there are many research/teaching laboratories in the department: computational linguistics, language processing and acquisition, phonetics, and sociolinguistics.

The interdisciplinary nature of linguistics is reflected in the large number of current collaborations within linguistics and with departments outside of linguistics. These include several interdisciplinary research grants, the greatest number of which are with Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Bioinformatics, and Speech and Hearing Sciences.

An overview of department research and activities can be found here.

Recent Research

Wueger, Tara. (2024). An Investigation of the Grammar Matrix, AGGREGATION Project, and LING 567 in the Context of Value Sensitive Design. University of Washington Working Papers in Linguistics. https://hdl.handle.net/1773/52341

Abhinav Patil, Sam Briggs, Tara Wueger, and Daniel D. O’Connell. 2023. SADTech@DravidianLangTech: Multimodal Sentiment Analysis of Tamil and Malayalam. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, pages 250–257, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria. https://aclanthology.org/2023.dravidianlangtech-1.37

Hedding, A. A. (2023). which-phrases Cannot Pied-Pipe in San Martín Peras Mixtec. In Huijsmans M., Reisinger, D. K. E., and Underhill, R., editors, Proceedings of WSCLA 25, pages 88-102. UCBWPL.

Cheng, Q., Roth, A., Halgren, E., Klein, D., Chen, J. K., & Mayberry, R. I. (2023). Restricted language access during childhood affects adult brain structure in selective language regions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(7), e2215423120.

Kye, Ted K. (2023). Dialectal differences in Lushootseed vowels. In Proceedings of the 58th International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages, 58, 219-229.

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Mooney, Annabelle & Evans, Betsy. Language, Society & Power. 6th edition. London: Routledge.

Kashyap, M.M., Tambwekar, A., Manohara, K., Natarajan, S. (2021) Speech Denoising Without Clean Training Data: A Noise2Noise Approach. Proc. Interspeech 2021, 2716-2720, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1130

Hedding, A. A. (2022). Possible and Impossible Movements within the Mixtec DP. In Pratley B., Bakay, O., Neu E. and Deal P., editors, Proceedings of NELS 52, volume 2, pages 15-28. GLSA

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C.m. Downey, Shannon Drizin, Levon Haroutunian, and Shivin Thukral. 2022. Multilingual unsupervised sequence segmentation transfers to extremely low-resource languages. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 5331–5346, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.

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