Linguistics Program
Arizona State University’s Amy LaCross will give a presentation at 4 p.m. on Wednesday April 24 in Miller Hall 152 on Western Washington University’s campus on speech segmentation errors found in Spanish and Mandarin speakers, and how they can give insight into language-specific perceptual cues…
The Linguistics Program, the Behavioral Neuroscience Program, and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences will host Reyna Gordon, the director of the Vanderbilt University Music Cognition Lab, at 3 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 5 in Miller Hall 152.
The event, titled “Individual…
Western Washington University graduates and students have received five Fulbright Scholarships for the 2018-19 academic year, making Western one of the top producers of the prestigious award.
“I’ve always believed Western students can compete with the best around the country,” said Tom…
Western Washington University's Linguistics Program will host an International Symposium on Typological Regularity of Semantic Change in Grammaticalization and Lexicalization
Saturday, April 22 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 23 8:30 a.m. to 1:00…
Western Washington University’s Linguistics Club will host Professor of Linguistics Ed Vajda to discuss the Ket language and his fieldwork in Siberia from 4-5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 18, in Miller Hall Room 152 on the WWU campus.
This lecture is free and open to the public.…
Donovan Grose, a professor of English at the Hang Seng Management College in Hong Kong, will present his work on some of the linguists' biggest questions surrounding language faculty, acquisition, evolution and the interface between language and gesture at 2 p.m. on Friday, May 13, in Miller…
Kets are a living linguistic fossil. Several hundred strong and dwindling, they inhabit swampy, mosquito-infested areas along the Yenisei, a mighty central Siberian river whose bright-blue waters flow into the Arctic Ocean. Thousands of years ago, reindeer pastoralists and horse herders pressed…
Western Washington University alumnus Donovan Grose, now a professor of English at Hang Seng Management College in Hong Kong, will present his work on some of the linguists' biggest questions surrounding the language faculty, acquisition, evolution and the interface between language and…
Dwan Shipley, an instructor for the Linguistics Program at Western Washington University, passed away on Friday, Feb. 12, at his home. A memorial service/celebration of life will be held at 2 p.m. at Dakota Creek Christian Center in Blaine on Wednesday, Feb. 24.
Dwan taught at…
J.R.R. Tolkien, wildly popular for his authorship of the fantasy trilogy "The Lord of the Rings," was by profession an unprepossessing Medievalist and historical linguist.
In this lecture, delivered at Western Washington University Nov. 14, 2012, Edward Vajda, a professor in the…