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'Pass the puck, eh!': SC Stingray study suggests hockey players adopt Canadian accent

Andrew Bray, UGA Linguistics Graduate Student studying sociolinguistics, had an interview with ABC News 4 - Charleston, SC. Andrew's research suggesting hockey players adopt Canadian accents is discussed.

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Linguistics Faculty Exchange with Leipzig

Under the auspices of the Franklin College International Faculty Exchange Program, the Linguistics Department will host Dr. Lars Meyer from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany.

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Dr. Vera Lee-Schoenfeld publishes "The syntax, information structure, and prosody of German 'VP'-fronting"

Congratulations to Dr. Vera Lee-Schoenfeld, Linguistics, University of Georgia and Dr.

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UGA Linguistics Faculty and Graduate Students present at the 2019 American Dialect Society annual conference

University of Georgia Linguistics Faculty and Graduate Students presented at the 2019 American Dialect Society annual conference in New Your City, New York, January 3-6, 2019.

Linguistics Lab

UGA Linguists Teach with Big Data

Collections of speech and text, known as corpora, have long played a key role in linguistics.