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Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Linguistics professor Zygmunt Frajzyngier has published a new work on linguistic theory and description with Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Adjunct Assistant Professor Erin Shay. The work, published by John Benjamins, is entitled The Role of Functions in Syntax: A Unified Approach to Language Theory, Description, and Typology. The book addresses a fundamental...

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Linguistics professor Zygmunt Frajyzngier and an international team of researchers have produced a landmark dictionary of the Chadic language Hdi. The book is the first trilingual dictionary of this endangered language. The dictionary is preceded by a short grammatical sketch, and contains French-Hdi-English and English-Hdi French indexes. Most verbs...

Martha Palmer, Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science, working with collaborators both at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ and around the country, have secured over $2 million in funding for a wide range of multi-year interdisiciplinary projects in automated languge understanding, with critical applications to national security, medical diagnosis and disaster response. Professors...

Jena D. Hwang, a 2014 joint PhD in Linguistics and Cognitive Science and current National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow in the Linguistics department, is one of four recipients of the 2015 Robert J. Glushko Dissertation Prize awarded by the Cognitive Science Society and the Glushko-Samuelson Foundation. The prize, which is...

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science Martha Palmer has been elected a fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Established in 2011, the ACL Fellows program recognizes ACL members whose contributions to the field have been most extraordinary. To date, 26 members of the ACL have been honored...

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Linguistics Professor Emerita Lise Menn has been selected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for "distinguished contributions to the field of linguistics, particularly for models of phonological development and theoretical linguistic accounts of language disorders, and for service to AAAS's disciplines". The...

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Linguistics Assistant Professor Rebecca Scarborough has won a 2014 Provost's Faculty Achievement Award. The award is presented annually to selected faculty who have offered recent significant publication or creative contributions in their academic fields. Dr. Scarborough's award recognizes her ground-breaking work in experimental phonetics. Dr. Scarborough's research focuses on...

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Linguistics Professor Zygmunt Frajzyngier, invited as International Chair, gave a series of lectures in Paris funded by the group Labex EFL, Empirical Foundations of Linguistics, at Sorbonne Paris Cite, a higher education and research consortium established in 2010 that brings together four Parisian universities and four higher education and...

Oxford University Press has published It's Been Said Before: A Guide to the Use and Abuse of Clichés , by Orin Hargraves, lexicographer, research assistant in Martha Palmer's lab, and lecturer in Linguistics and the PWR program. The book examines the use of clichés in a broad range of genres...

The Department of Linguistics at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder is pleased to announce that Dr. Mans Hulden joined the faculty in Fall 2014. Dr. Hulden's research focuses on developing computational methods to infer linguistic structure from data using varying degrees of prior knowledge of supervision, particularly in the domains...