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UGA Linguistics Faculty and Graduate Students present at the 2020 American Dialect Society annual conference

University of Georgia Linguistics Faculty and Graduate Students presented at the 2020 American Dialect Society annual conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2-5, 2020.

Dr. Jon Forrest standing in front of light brick wall with black coat and burgundy sweater

Dr. Jon Forrest receives Innovation in Multicultural Curriculum Award from Franklin College of Arts & Sciences

Congratulations to Department of Linguistics Assistant Professor, Dr.

Students gathered around looking at posters

Fall 2019 Final Project Poster Conference

The Department of Linguistics held a Final Project Poster Conference on December 4th, 2019 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm at the Georgia Center. Students from our Field Methods, Natural Language Processing, and Text & Corpus classes presented their final project posters.

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UGA Linguistics Faculty and Graduate Students present at the 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America

University of Georgia Linguistics Faculty and Graduate Students will be presenting at the 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, in San Diego, California, December 2-6, 2019.

Graduate students Ryan Hearn, left, and Joseph Rhyne hold the grammar guide and dictionary for the Torfan language and a poster for "Captain Marvel."

Former UGA Linguistics students create language for ground-breaking Marvel movie

Two former UGA Linguistics graduate students, Ryan Hearn,M.A.'14 and Joseph Rhyne,M.A.'17 were recently credited with creating an alien language Torfan for the "Captain Marvel" film released this year.

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