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  News Congratulations to Nakamura winners!The Yumi Nakamura Prize in linguistics was a tie this year, going to Katherine Nelson (Rice University) for her talk "Variation in Nez Pearce Glottalized Sonorants" and to Marty Smith and Martha Rayas (UT El Paso) for their talk "Hidden Objects: Determining Statement Reliability via Puppets." Photos from UTASCILT 20 are on the department's Facebook page. February 2013 News RoundupThe Department of Linguistics and TESOL rolled out their new website last month. Check out their news and events at www.uta.edu/linguistics. … The 20th annual UTA Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL (UTASCILT) will take place Feb. 21-22. Participants are student scholars from across the globe, with monetary awards given for the best presentations, thanks to the Yumi Nakamura Memorial Endowment. This year’s keynote speaker will be Dr. Robert Fiorentino (University of Kansas). Further details of the conference can be found at http://www.uta.edu/linguistics/current-students/lingua/conference/20-utascilt-2013/index.php. … Dr. Ben Slade (Senior Lecturer) gave an invited talk at the University of Utah last week. … Dr. David Silva, Professor of Linguistics and Vice-Provost, began serving as interim Dean of the Graduate School last month. His donations to the university, and memories of his home department, are represented in a brick at the new College Park Center. … Dr. Laurel Smith Stvan, Associate Professor and department chair, will take part in a DFW-area Digital Humanities Colloquium later this month. She will present “Antconc for Humanities Students” at UT Dallas on Feb. 27. … In collaboration with two O’odham community experts, a storyteller and a language and culture teacher, Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald (Professor) had a refereed book chapter, “Contemporary Storytelling in Tohono O’odham,” appear in Inside Dazzling Mountains: Contemporary Translations of Southwest Native Verbal Arts (University of Nebraska Press). (originally posted in COLA Newsroom) Faculty Awarded FundingAssistant Professor Jeffrey Witzel and Visiting Assistant Professor Naoko Witzel received a $76,608 subcontract from the University of Maryland to contribute to the project “Rapid Rise, Tailored Treatments for Language Proficiency Gains: Linguistic Correlates of Proficiency”, funded by the Department of Defense. December 2012 News RoundupDoctoral students Lynnelle Rhinier Brown and Juyoung Lee will each present papers at the American Association of Corpus Linguistics conference at San Diego State University in January 2013. Brown’s paper is “Requesting the context: A context analysis of request and command statements in the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English” and Lee’s paper is “A Corpus-based Study on the Use of Linking Adverbials in Academic Writing by Korean EFL Learners and Native English Speakers.” … Doctoral student Mohamed Mwamzandi has a paper scheduled for publication in the next edition of Studies in the Linguistic Sciences: Illinois Working Papers. The paper is titled “The Role of Givenness in Swahili Reciprocals.” … Three UT Arlington linguists will be presenting work at The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas conference in Boston in next month. Drs. Colleen Fitzgerald and Mary Linn (The University of Oklahoma) will present “Giving Life to Languages and Data Via the 2012 Oklahoma Breath of Life Workshop.” Fitzgerald and Joshua Hinson (Chickasaw Language Revitalization Program) will present “501 Verbs of Chickasaw: Verb 1.” Doctoral students Lori McLain Pierce and Nathan Eversole are presenting a poster at the conference: “Collaborative Databasing using FLEx: A Case Study in Choctaw.” … Fitzgerald recently gave an invited colloquium at the University of Victoria in British Columbia on “Outreach Intersecting with Research: Our Chickasaw Language Collaboration.” … A recent story on the 2012 Oklahoma Breath of Life appeared in the Nov. 22 magazine edition of “Diverse: Issues in Higher Ed,” which featured quotes from Pierce and Fitzgerald. (originally posted in COLA Newsroom) Call for Papers for UTASCILT 20: Deadline ExtendedThis spring Lingua will be hosting the 20th annual UTA Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL. The conference will be on the 21st and 22nd of February 2013. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Robert Fiorentino from the University of Kansas. Presentations are welcome from students from any school. The deadline for submissions has been extended to December 2, 2012 at 11:59PM. Read the Call for Papers and submit your abstract online here at LinguistList. DFW Metroplex Linguistics ConferenceWe'll be hosting the 4th annual DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference on Saturday, November 10, 2012. Speakers will include faculty and students from local linguistics departments throughout the Metroplex region, including UTA's. Admission is free! (Please RSVP by Wednesday, Nov. 7 to have lunch provided -- to linguistics@uta.edu). See the schedule and details at the 2012 DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference page. Talk by Naoko Witzel on Nov. 9Join us for a talk on Friday, Nov. 9 by Dr. Naoko Witzel: "Unmasking Bilingual Language Processing." (abstract). Her talk takes place in Trimble Hall Room 200 at 1:30 p.m. The Metroplex Linguistics ConferenceThe UT Arlington Department of Linguistics & TESOL is hosting the DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference on Saturday, November 10, 2012. Speakers will include faculty and students from local linguistics departments in the Metroplex, including our own. Admission is free! (Please RSVP by Wednesday, Nov. 7 to have lunch provided -- to linguistics@uta.edu).See the schedule and details at the 2012 DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference page. Students Awarded FundingCongratulations to doctoral student Lori McLain Pierce, the newest recipient of a $10,000 student research fellowship for 2012-13. The Jess Hay Endowment for Chancellor's Graduate Student Research Fellowships was established by former Regent Jess Hay to tie graduate education to timely and high quality research benefiting the State of Texas. Two of our MA students have won Frankie Hansell Endowed Scholarship awards from the Alumni Association for 2012-13: Debby Adams (TESOL) & Monica Nesbitt (Linguistics). Language Processing GroupOn October 5 (Friday), the LPG will meet from 12 to 1 in Trimble Hall 01. Samantha Cornelius (MA LING) will be presenting Testing the viability of webDMDX for masked priming experiments. This presentation will be of particular interest to anyone who might like to conduct experimental linguistics studies over the internet. This research group will also meet on F 10/19, F 11/2, and F 11/16 (12-1, TH 01). Please check the LPG site for more information. Syntax Reading GroupThe next syntax reading group meet in HH 132 (Linguistics Conference Room) on Friday, September 28, at 1 pm. The reading will be Sandra Chung’s "Syntactic Identity in Sluicing: How Much, and Why". Dissertation DefensePlease join us for the first dissertation defense of the new year, by Ms. Yujeong Choi: "Repair Negotiation of English L2 Learners." The public presentation will be on Monday, August 27 at 4:00pm in Trimble Hall 200. New Department ChairRead an interview in the College of Liberal Arts newsletter with Dr. Laurel Stvan, the new chair of the department. Fall 2012 Welcome Back Events
---Academic Year 2011-2012--- Community Service AwardMA TESOL student Carolyn Jones has been selected as the 2012 Literacy Texas Volunteer of the Year. This is a state-wide honor to be announced in August at the state Literacy Texas Conference in Austin. Carolyn’s supervisor praised the “countless high-quality hours as a volunteer at VMLC,” a nonprofit organization addressing the critical community need for English literacy classes in Vickery Meadow, a high-density, low-income neighborhood in Northeast Dallas. Carolyn said the award was "a compliment to UTA’s TESOL program and the great community outreach it supports and encourages." Congratulations, Carolyn! First BA Heads to Japan for Graduate SchoolWe're pleased to announce that our department's first BA graduate, Michael Mansbridge (BA Linguistics, 2011), has been accepted to the Graduate Program in Comparative Studies of Language and Culture at Nagoya University, Japan, for Fall 2012! 2012 GraduatesCongratulations to our newest graduates! BA in Linguistics: Jason Holt. MAs in TESOL: Wendy Cooper, Stefani Goode, Derek Smith, Heather Song, and Kristopher Wright. MAs in Linguistics: Derrick Jackman, Amanda Reed, Fadiah Qudah, and Dusti Samples. PhDs in Linguistics: Ziwo Lama and K. Larry Rogers. Check out the video the College of Liberal Arts spring commencement that took place in the new College Park Center on May 12. Endowments Fund Student ResearchThis year saw the first recipients of two departmental endowments. Doctoral student Vitaly Voinov received the Edmondson Endowment Grant to support his fieldwork this fall on the Tuvan language. And doctoral student Natalie Carter received the Alumni Endowment Grant to fund summer training in forensic linguistics as part of the work on her dissertation. UT Arlington faculty & students at Breath of Life 2012Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald and 6 Ph.D. Linguistics students participated in the 2012 Oklahoma Breath of Life, Silent No More workshop held May 20-25 at the Sam Noble Museum, University of Oklahoma. Dr. Fitzgerald was one of the organizers and instructors. One student taught the language databasing portion of the workshop, and the other five students served as mentors to Native American language attendees. The workshop was sponsored by an National Science Foundation grant received by Dr. Mary Linn (U Oklahoma) and Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald. Read more here, and check out the press coverage. Departmental Awards Cermemony, May 4Join us for the annual Departmental Awards Ceremony, where those in Linguistics and TESOL will be recognized for their outstanding achievements from this academic year. Friday, May 4, 2012 from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. in the sixth floor parlor of the Central Library. A light lunch with refreshments will be served following the ceremony. Talk by Paul Kroeger, April 20Our last colloquium speaker of the semester will be Dr. Paul Kroeger (GIAL, SIL) talking on "'Adverbial verbs' and their Kin in Kimaragang Dusun" (abstract). The talk will be Friday, April 20 at 3:00 in Chemistry and Physics Building room 303.
Linguist named Global Research FellowPhD Student Vitaly Voinov was named a Global Research Graduate Fellow for 2012-13. The program is a component of the Festival of Ideas/Global Resarch Program through the College of Liberal Arts, made possible through the generosity of Mr. Mustaque Ahmed’s commitment to furthering global understanding. The award will help fund Vitaly's doctoral field research on Tuvan. Talk by Mandy Maguire, April 6Join us for our next department colloqium on Friday, April 6 at 3:00 in Trimble 200. The speaker will be Dr. Mandy Maguire from the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at UT Dallas presenting on "Semantic and Syntactic Difficulties of Verb Learning" (abstract). Syntax Reading Group, March 30The Syntax Reading Group (SRG) will be meeting this Friday, March 30th from 1:30pm-2:30pm in Trimble Hall 200. The topic will be Emily Manetta's article "Reconsidering Rightward Scrambling: Postverbal Constituents in Hindi-Urdu". Dissertation Defense, March 27The second dissertation defense of the semester will be on Tuesday, March 27 at 2:30 pm in COBA 154: room changed to Social Work 107B. Larry Rogers will present his work on "American Sign Language Verb Categories in Constructed Action." (abstract). Talk by Keren Rice, March 23Join us for our next colloquium talk on March 23. Dr. Keren Rice (University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Linguistics and Aboriginal Studies at the University of Toronto and current President of the Linguistic Society of America) will be speaking at 3:00 pm in University Hall room 011 on “Affix ordering in the Athabaskan verb: an interactive model (abstract).” (Funding for the event is sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Festival of Ideas Global Research Institute.) Later that evening, Lingua will be hosting a potluck dinner in her honor. Dissertation defense, March 8Ziwo Lama will defend his dissertation on Thursday, March 8, 1pm, 200 Trimble: Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages, a Phylogentic Estimation. (abstract)Alumnus Receives GrantAlumnus Neal Liang (PhD Linguistics, 2009) has been awarded a $100,000 national grant for “UTA Student STARTALK,” a program that trains teachers as Chinese language instructors for at least 80 students in school districts in Dallas-Fort Worth. The grant was established by National Security Agency and is managed by the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland. UTASCILT 2012: Student Linguistics Conference, March 1 and 2The schedule (pdf) is up for the 19th Annual UT Arlington Student Conference in Lingustics and TESOL. Join us on March 1 and 2 for papers, posters and workshops! Keynote by Dr. Mike Hammond (Arizona). New Reading GroupA new Native American languages reading group is starting up on, starting Feb. 20. They'll meet Mondays from 9:30-10:30am in 132J Hammond Hall. Contact Lori Pierce for the current reading.
Fitzgerald quoted in National GeographicDr. Colleen Fitzgerald was quoted in a National Geographic article on online dictionaries of endangered languages: (link w/ audio clips).
Grad Students Present on their ResearchJoin us for the semester's first colloquium, a panel of three PhD students discussing their data-gathering methodologies: Lynnelle Brown, Yujeong Choi, and Josh Jensen will describe the methods they're using in their dissertation work. Friday, Feb. 3 from 11-noon, 215 Trimble Hall. Department Open HouseDirectly after the colloquium, join the students of Lingua for a lunchtime meet-and-greet from 12:00-2:00 in the Speech Sounds Lab, 301 Trimble, to catch up with old and new members of the department. Syntax Reading GroupThe next meeting of the Syntax Reading Group (SRG) will be Friday, February 17th. in Trimble Hall 200 from 1:30-2:30. The topic of discussion will be Emily Elfner’s paper, “The Interaction of Linearization and Prosody: Evidence from Pronoun Postposing in Irish” Talk by Jim McClosky: Feb 17Following the reading group, at 3pm, Dr. Jim McCloskey (UCSC) will be our guest speaker, talking on "Lightest to the Right: An Anomalous Displacement in Irish." (abstract). His talk will take place in the Chemistry and Physics Building, room 303. Mavericks presenting at LSA in 20128 UTA faculty members and students--and one alumnus--presented at the Linguistic Society of America and its affiliated organizations in Portland, Oregon in January: (Ian Connally, Colleen Fitzgerald, Cindy Kilpatrick, Andrew McKenzie, Lori McLain Pierce, Joey Sabbagh, Ben Slade, Laurel Smith Stvan, Jeff Witzel). Poster Presentations on the Phonology of Oklahoma LanguagesPosters by students in LING 3330, will be presented on Thursday, Dec. 8 from 11:00-12:30 in the San Jacinto/Neches Room (located on the upper level of the University Center). Students worked on projects on an Oklahoma language. Their posters display many intriguing features in Oklahoma languages, such as typologically unusual segment inventories, allophonic processes, alliterative traditions, and writing systems developed by indigenous communities. Languages chosen by students include Osage, Cherokee, Caddo, Miami-Illinois, and Plains Sign Language. The Department Has MovedThe Linguistics and TESOL Department's administrative office and those faculty offices that had been on the 4th floor of Hammond Hall relocated in November 2011 to the 1st floor of Hammond. Stop by the new main office in 132 Hammond Hall. Oct. 31 - Nov. 5: Endangered Languages WeekRead more about the range of on-campus events at the Endangered Languages Week web page. Welcome Back Potluck DinnerNew and returning students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend our welcome back potluck on Friday, August 26. Check with the main office for food signups and directions. New Student OrientationAll graduate students admitted to the department for the fall 2011 semester are encouraged to attend the New Student Orientation, to be held on August 26 from 9:00-5:00 in the Chemistry and Physics building, room 303 (above the planetarium). Dr. Laurel Stvan will coordinate a series of events where you’ll learn about the different course requirements and exam formats for each program, receive a copy of the Graduate Handbook, take a walking tour of the department facilities, hear presentations by the Humanities Librarian and the members of the Institutional Review Board, and meet department faculty. Lunch is included. Graduate Teaching Assistant OrientationOur GTA Orientation for all incoming PhD students as well as for continuing students who have received an assistantship for Fall 2011 or Spring 2012 will be presented by Dr. Jeff Witzel. August 26 from 12:30-4:30 in the Chemistry and Physics building, room 303 (above the planetarium). FLEx Workshop: May 26A half-day workshop on beginning to use the Fieldworks Language Explorer (FLEx) software package will be held at the UT Arlington linguistics computer lab (Trimble Hall basement, room 014) on Thursday, May 26th, 2-5 p.m. The instructors will be Ph.D. students Joshua Jensen and Vitaly Voinov. Hot caffeinated beverages will be provided. Pre-registration is required and seating is limited. It is best for workshop attendees to bring your own laptops to the workshop with FLEX 7.0.3 already installed (free downloads of the 323 Mb installation file are available at http://downloads.sil.org/fieldworks/7.0.3/SE/FW703_SE_A.exe). If you plan to attend the workshop, please email Vitaly Voinov at vovoinov@hotmail.com and let us know whether you will be bringing your own laptop or not. April 29 Colloquium: Gunsoo LeeGunsoo Lee will be giving a colloquium April 29 (Friday), 2-3:30pm, in TH 200. The title of his talk is "From Referentiality to Syntactic Dependencies." (Download abstract [pdf]) There will be a dinner outing to a Korean restaurant later that evening. Details to follow. Jason Kandybowicz to Join Faculty in FallDr. Jason Kandybowicz of Swarthmore College has officially accepted the tenure-track position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and TESOL. He brings additional expertise to our Department in the areas of Language Documentation and Theoretical Linguistics, specifically, syntax. Dr. Kandybowicz joins us in Fall 2011. Fall 2011 Course Descriptions AvailableCourse descriptions are now available for graduate and undergraduate courses being offered in the Fall 2011 semester. Enhanced GTA Positions for PhD StudentsThe Department of Linguistics & TESOL offers a five-year package (assistantship and full tuition) to exceptional candidates who are applying to begin doctoral studies in Fall 2011. These Enhanced Graduate Teaching Assistantships are for PhD Linguistics students newly admitted for the Fall 2011 semester and have a 9-month stipend of $15,300, in addition to a Graduate Doctoral Teaching Fellowship that will cover tuition for full-time enrollment. Read more on our Financial Aid page. Departmental Awards CeremonyThis year's Departmental Awards Ceremony will be held on Friday, April 29, from 12-1:30pm in the Central Library 6th floor parlor area. We will be recognizing students and instructors for their outstanding achievements during this academic year. Refreshments will be provided for this event; hope to see you there! Student NewsHeather Beal (PhD Linguistics) was awarded a Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship for summer 2011. Three of our graduate students recently received funding from the College of Liberal Arts: Vitaly Voinov, Dean’s Excellence Research Travel Award; Matt Benton, Dean’s Excellence Award for Graduate Research/Creative Activity; Sok-hun Kim, Dean’s Excellence Award for Graduate Research/Creative Activity. Seven students from the Department of Linguistics & TESOL were honored as University Scholars at the 2011 President's Convocation for Academic Excellence: Heather Beal (PhD Ling), Sean Cooper (MA TESOL), Nathan Eversole (MA Ling), Michelle Maupin (MA Ling), Sharon Peters (MA TESOL), Kristopher Wright (MA TESOL), and Roberta 'Bobbi' Ansiaux (MA TESOL). Five UT Arlington Linguistics faculty and students are presenting at the Oklahoma Workshop on Native American Languages (OWNAL), April 16-17: Cynthia Kilpatrick and Derrick Jackman (MA Linguistics), "Language loss and language change: three generations of Maya K'iche'"; Colleen Fitzgerald and Lori McLain Pierce (PhD Linguistics), "Tohono O'odham prosodic phrasing: a view from narrative"; and Andrew McKenzie, "Default aspect in Kiowa." Ph.D. candidate Joshua Jensen was recently awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant to support his research on clauses and serial verb constructions in Jarai, an understudied Austronesian language of Vietnam and Cambodia. Jensen's work was featured in a story at the College of Liberal Arts news blog. Ph.D. student Mohamed Mwamzandi has had a paper accepted for presentation at the third annual meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society, which is meeting in April at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The following students are presenting at UT Arlington's 2011 ACES symposium: Ashley Lober Mckeever (San Saba, 3pm); Vitaly Voinov (San Saba, 3:20pm); Sean Cooper and Lori McLain Pierce (Palo Duro Lounge, Poster #42, 10am-1pm Posters available for public viewing; 2:30 - 3:30 students available with posters). More details at the ACES page. Faculty NewsDr. Laurel Smith Stvan has been invited by the Centre for Advanced Research in English at the University of Birmingham for a six-week visit. The focus of this visit is to work on a joint project and to explore possibilities of future collaborative research between UT Arlington and the University of Birmingham. After a successful application to the North American Fund, Stvan will continue her work on bare nominals in English and develop the pedagogical applications of this research to second language learning. Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald will be part of the team teaching at the Language Revitalization Workshop that precedes OWNAL. The theme this year is "Agreeing to Agree: How Words are Linked Together?" The Revitalization Workshop includes Native American community members and language teachers from Oklahoma, as well as all over the United States and even Canada. Speakers from each language represented at the workshop will get a chance to explore ways nouns and verbs go together in their language and report back to the main group. The afternoon session at this workshop involves the development of teaching materials that the participants can use to help their learners to acquire noun-verb agreement in their heritage language. Dr. Joey Sabbagh presented a conference talk, "Word order and prosodic structure constraints in Tagalog," at the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association conference. Dr. Cindy Kilpatrick, Dr. Joey Sabbagh, and Dr. David Silva, were all named a "Phi Kappa Phi Recognized Professor" by students initiated to the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society this past fall. UT Arlington Alumni Career NewsCongratulations to the following alumni: Stephen George (MA, 2010) has been accepted to the PhD program in Higher Education at the University of North Texas; Jeff Hobbie (MA, 2010) has accepted a full-time ESL teaching position in the Intensive English Program at Southern Methodist University; Micah Rejcek (MA, 2010) has a position as adjunct faculty at McLennan Community College in Waco; Dr. Wenhua Jin (Ph.D. Linguistics 2008) has accepted a tenure-track position starting this fall as Assistant Professor of Chinese in the Department of Foreign Languages at Kennesaw State University. March 25 Colloquium: Andrew McKenzie on Kiowa Reference TrackingOn Friday, March 25, Andrew McKenzie (UT Arlington) will be presenting a talk entitled "Reference-tracking in the absence of reference." The Colloquium will be held from 2-3:30pm in Trimble Hall, Room 216. Psycholinguistics Lab Open House, March 25The Psycholinguistics Lab (Hammond Hall 130) in the Department of Linguistics and TESOL will hold an open house 3:30-4:30 on Friday March 25. Please come by to check out the lab facilities and some of the different types of experiments we will be running. (The Psycholinguists Lab was recently featured in an article at the CoLA News Site.) Tenure-Track Position in Language DocumentationThe Department of Linguistics and TESOL at The University of Texas at Arlington invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Language Documentation, to begin in fall 2011. Read the full job posting here (pdf). Linguistics B.A. in the NewsThe department's new B.A. in Linguistics was recently featured in a Shorthorn article, in the College of Liberal Arts Newsroom, and the MavTrak Newsletter (3rd article). Read the degree requirements in the Undergraduate Catalog. LaTeX Workshop: Mar. 9 (Wednesday)The department is holding two workshops teaching the basics of LaTeX, a typesetting system used by many linguists to prepare documents. LaTeX is particularly ideal for tasks such as creating interlinears and drawing tree diagrams. The workshop times will be as follows:
Please email andrew.mckenzie@uta.edu or joshua.jensen@mavs.uta.edu if you plan to come (or think you might). We will be using the lab computers, so there's no need to bring your own. However, if you wish to install LaTeX on your computer before the workshop, email us for instructions. 2011 Student Linguistics ConferenceLingua, UT Arlington's Student Linguistics Organization, is holding its annual Student Conference in Linguistics March 3-4 (Thursday-Friday). In addition to student research presentations (talks and posters), there will be a keynote from Dr. Grant Goodall and a discussion panel on grants. There is no cost to attend. Find out more and view the schedule at the UTASCILT 18 page. Language Documentation Job TalksThe Language Documentation Search Committee is pleased to be putting forward three candidates for the Language Documentation professorship. These candidates will be coming for on-site visits and lectures. Lori Pierce is the student representative on the Lang. Doc. search committee; please give her your feedback about candidates
December CommencementLinguistics & TESOL graduates participating in the December Commencement exercises will be part of the College of Liberal Arts ceremony on Saturday December 18 at 7:00 p.m. More details are available at the College of Liberal Arts Commencement page. Dissertation Proposal Defense: December 14On Tuesday, December 14, 2010, Sok-Hun Kim will defend his dissertation proposal, "A Corpus-based Analysis of Discourse Anaphora in English and Korean: A Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Approach." The defense will be held in room 218 Trimble Hall at 1 pm. Dissertation Proposal Defense: November 15Yu Jeong Choi will be having her dissertation proposal defense at 10:00am on November 15 in Trimble Hall room 115. The title of her proposal is "Repair Negotiation of English L2 Learners." Abstract Writing Workshop: Friday, November 12Dr. Joseph Sabbagh and Dr. Laurel Stvan will be running an abstract writing workshop on Friday, November 12 from 2:00-3:30 pm in room 218 Trimble Hall. The workshop will discuss how to put together a conference abstract. MA and PhD students welcome. Praat Workshop: PostponedDr. Nancy Caplow from UNT will give a tutorial on using text grids and scripting in Praat (Location: TH 014, the Linguistics Lab). For the half-hour before the workshop (9-9:30am), Dr. Cindy Kilpatrick will answer questions about Praat basics. Once the workshop has been rescheduled, the new date will be posted online. October Events: Reading Circle & Colloquium with Dr. Maria PolinskyReading Circle (Articles by Dr. Maria Polinsky)On October 22 (Friday), at 2:00 pm, Lingua is holding a Reading Circle to discuss two articles by Dr. Maria Polinsky (our Colloquim speaker on October 29; see next item). We will discuss the articles "Why bother with Heritage Speakers" (2010) and "Gender under Imcomplete Acquisition: Heritage Speakers' Knowledge of Noun Categorization" (2008). October Colloquium: Dr. Maria PolinskyOn October 29 (Friday), 2:00 - 3:30 pm, Dr. Maria Polinsky of Harvard University will be delivering a lecture as part of our department's Colloquium series. The lecture, entitled "Asymmetries in nominal and verbal morphology in heritage Languages," will be held in Chemistry and Physics Building room 303. Topic TBA. A dinner with Dr. Polinsky will be held later in the evening. Contact a Lingua officer for more details. Call for Papers Extended: 2011 Student Linguistics ConferenceLingua, UT Arlington's Student Linguistics Organization, has extended its Call for Papers for UTASCILT 18 (pdf). The call deadline is now 29 November 2010. Read more about the annual student-run UT Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL (to be held March 3-4) at the UTASCILT 18 page. November Colloquium & Ultrasound Workshop with Dr. Jeff MielkeThe Department has recently acquired a GE Logiq portable ultrasound for phonetic research. Dr. Jeff Mielke from the University of Ottawa will be coming to UT Arlington to help train our department faculty and students to learn how to use this tool. There are two events associated with this: a research presentation, and a hands-on workshop. The workshop requires advance registration due to limited space. Priority will go to the members of the UTA Linguistics and TESOL Department. Colloquium3 November, from 9:00–11:0am (Chemistry & Physics Building, room 303). This event is open to all. Lunch will be provided by the Linguistics Department immediately following the colloquium. Ultrasound Workshop3 November, from 1:30–5:30pm (Chemistry & Physics Building, room 303). Advance registration required, limited to 10 participants. Reserve your spot by emailing linguistics@uta.edu. The workshop will begin with familiarization with the ultrasound machine and recording of data — those who attended the previous ultrasound workshop may choose to join us at 2:30 when we begin the analysis session. Our Department in the NewsVitaly Voinov, a PhD student in the department, was interviewed for an article in the UT Arlington Magazine. The article discusses Vitaly's work with the Tuvan language. (The section featuring Vitaly can also be read at The College of Liberal Arts News Blog.) Language revitalization work undertaken by PhD student Lori McLain Pierce and other students under the direction of Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald was recently featured in the 2010 College of Liberal Arts Report. The report also highlights Dr. Jerold Edmondson's work in Monsoon Asia and service learning partnerships in the TESOL program. UT Arlington Linguists at the 2011 LSA Annual MeetingThe Linguistic Society of America accepted PhD student Joshua Jensen's abstract to present at the 2011 Annual Meeting. Joshua will give a talk on "Jarai wh-questions: Pseudo-clefting, wh-raising, & clause structure." Additionally, Joshua's abstract won the Student Abstract Award, given to the best abstract submitted by a student for a paper or poster presentation at the 2011 Annual Meeting. Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald is an organizer and presenter for a symposium entitled "Documenting Endangered Languages: NSF-NEH Del Projects in Honor of the 20th Anniversary of the LSA Panel on Endangered Languages" (Thursday evening of the Annual Meeting, session 12). More details are available at the Annual Meeting Preliminary Program. MA Linguistics Comprehensive Exam (fall 2010)The date of the Linguistics exam will be Friday, November 12 (a week after the Metroplex conference). Contact the graduate advisor if you plan to take the exam this semester. 2nd Metroplex Linguistics ConferenceThe 2nd Metroplex Linguistics Conference is to be held November 6 (Saturday) on the campus of GIAL, 8:30 am - 6 pm. Lunch will be provided. Presenters will include Dr. Laurel Stvan ("Catching Your Death of Cold: The Influence of Lexical Conflation on Beliefs about Causation"), Dr. Jeffrey D. Witzel ("The processing of forward and backward anaphora: Evidence from event-related potentials (ERPs)"), and Joshua Jensen ("Pseudocleft questions and wh-movement in Jarai"). Confirm your attendance (for lunch meal count) by Nov. 2 by emailing linguistics@uta.edu. 2011 Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOLMark your calendar with the dates for the 2011 UTASCILT: March 3-4 (Thursday & Friday). More details to follow. FLEx Workshop EventsOn September 24 (Friday), Beth Bryson of SIL will be conducting an all-day workshop (9:30 am – 4:30 pm) on using the Fieldworks Language Explorer software for linguistic data management. The workshop will be in the Linguistics Lab, Trimble Hall 014. There will be a lunch break; bring your own lunch. The workshop will introduce participants to the SIL FLEX software – Fieldworks Language Explorer Software, which is used by many language documentation projects to organize lexical materials (dictionary-making), run concordances, help with morphological analysis, and interlinearize texts in a more automated fashion. This workshop requires advance registration (email linguistics@uta.edu) because space will be limited. In your registration email indicate the option you prefer:
If you are using your own laptop, that laptop must run Windows, and you must have FLEx version 6.0.4 installed. To install, go to http://fieldworks.sil.org/download/ and choose "Download 6.0.4 SE Full". The installation can be tricky, so to assist in the installation, you can attend a department-sponsored install session on September 17 (Friday) in the Linguistics Lab, from 12 noon to 1 pm. September Colloquium & Ultrasound Workshop: Sonya BirdColloquium, Sept. 30On September 30 (Thursday), 4:30 - 6:00 pm, Dr. Sonya Bird of the University of Victoria will be giving a talk on the use of ultrasound equipment in linguistic research. Location TBA. Ultrasound Workshop, Oct. 1On October 1 (Friday), Dr. Bird will present on how to use the department's new ultrasound equipment (10 am – 12 noon, location TBA), and she will follow her presentation with a demo (2:00 – 4:30 pm). Registration is required for the demo at 2:00; space is limited to 15. To register, send an email to linguistics@uta.edu. Fall 2010 Dissertation DefensesThe following dissertation defenses in our department are scheduled for the fall 2010 semester:
The B.A. in Linguistics has arrived!We are excited to announce that UT Arlington now offers a linguistics major! Degree requirements are available in the Undergraduate Catalog. Beginning of Year EventsMonday, August 23, 2010New Student Orientation
Tuesday, August 24, 2010GTA Orientation Research Profiles Workshop Thursday, August 26First Day of Classes Saturday, August 28Welcome Back Potluck New Undergraduate Certificate in TESOLThe Department of Linguistics and TESOL now offers two certificates in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). In addition to the Graduate Certificate, starting in Fall 2010 we also provide a certificate option for students who are enrolled in an undergraduate program. Read more about it at the TESOL Undergrad Certificate page. Faculty Research in PhonologyThree members of our faculty are presenting posters at LabPhon 12: Dr. Cynthia Kilpatrick and Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald's poster, "The contrast system in Tohono O’odham stops," emerges from an archival phonetics project in department's Speech Sounds Lab; Dr. Jerold Edmondson's, "Voiceless applosive finals in Taiwanese and other E & SE Asian languages: Laryngoscopic case studies," grows out of work conducted with a Taiwanese research team at the Monsoon Asia project. Language Documentation: InField 2010Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald is an instructor for a workshop entitled "Accessing archival materials for community-based language documentation and revitalization" at this summer's InField. Faculty Research in Corpus StudiesDr. Laurel Smith Stvan is presenting two corpus-based projects this summer from an ongoing work on vernacular health discourse: "Catching Cold: Polysemous Reinforcement of Beliefs about Causation," at the 3rd UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, and "Stress Management: Corpus-based insights into Vernacular Interpretations of Stress," at the Eighth Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET). April Colloquium: Dr. Matthew Juge Discusses Verb SuppletionOn April 30, 2:00-3:30 pm, Dr. Matthew Juge of Texas State University-San Marcos will be giving a talk entitled "Suppletion in verbs: Typology and diachrony" in Trimble Hall 200. Abstract: "Suppletion has yet to be well characterized in its various manifestations, despite its long history of treatment. A thorough typology depends on reference to synchronic morphological relations and distributions as well as semantic factors involved in its development. Recent work (e.g., Veselinova 2006, Corbett 2007) have revealed important information about synchronic matters, but certain diachronic questions-which directly affect synchronic distributions-require further investigation. In this paper I review the sources of suppletion and examine the understudied phenomenon of overlapping suppletion; the relationships among suppletion, frequency, and analogy; and semantic factors, including deixis and lexicalization patterns." Departmental Awards CeremonyOur annual Departmental Awards Ceremony will be held April 28 (Wednesday), 4:30-6:00pm in the Concho Room at the University Center. Please plan to join us in recognizing our recent graduates, outstanding students, and instructors. (You can find a list of award recipients on this page.) Faculty Research NewsCongratulations to Dr. Laurel Smith Stvan, who has been awarded a Faculty Development Leave for next year to support her research, and Dr. Cynthia Kilpatrick, who has been awarded a Research Enhancement Program Grant for her proposal, "Bilingual and Heritage Speech Production in Maya K'iche." Linguistics Students at ACESThis year, seven Linguistics & TESOL students whose abstracts were accepted at this year's ACES symposium: Dalal Almubayei, Yujeong Choi, Namrata Dubey, Josh Jensen, Sok-Hun Kim, Lori McLain Pierce (presentations); Vitaly Voinov (poster). Uptdate: Congratulations to two Linguistics Ph.D. students who won awards at ACES: Vitaly Voinov (President's Poster Award) and Joshua Jensen (Provost's Award). Both awards were accompanied by cash prizes. Summer Linguistics & TESOL CoursesThe department is offering a range of courses during the summer sessions. You can see them on the Undergraduate Course Schedule and Graduate Course Schedule. New Ph.D. Support: Full Tuition and Assistantship with StipendThe Department of Linguistics & TESOL is pleased to announce five assistantships for new Ph.D. Linguistics students admitted for the Fall 2010 semester. These graduate teaching assistantships will have a 9-month stipend of $15,300 and cover tuition for 9 hours of coursework a semester (9 hours is a full-time load). Read more about applying to the Ph.D. program at the Prospective Students page. Research FundingThe following research funding opportunities are available through the Dean's office (downloadable applications following names): Termini Research Travel Award (application & cover letter), Dean's Research Travel Award (application), and the Graduate Non-travel Research Award (application & cover letter). Complete applications are due in the Linguistics & TESOL Department by March 25, 2010. Please submit the applications to ling.advisor@uta.edu or drop them off in the main office. Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOLThe schedule for the 17th annual UT Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL (UTASCILT 17), held February 19-20, 2010 (Fri.-Sat.), is now available. Our keynote speaker will be Dr. William Croft. UTA Working Papers in Linguistics 3 (2010) Just PublishedThe third volume of our department's UT Arlington Working Papers in Linguistics (2010) in Linguistics has recently been published online. Access the articles from the Working Papers 2010 page. Job Openings and February Candidate TalksThe Department of Lingustics and TESOL announces two tenure-track job searches. Download job ads for the following expansion line openings: a position in Language Documentation and Syntax and a position in Second Language Acquisition. SLA Job Talks (spring 2010)Our department's Second Language Acquisition Search Committee has put forward three finalist candidates, who will very soon be coming to our department for on-site visits and lectures. Yujeong Choi is the student representative on the SLA search committee; please give her your feedback about candidates by Tuesday, Feb. 16, at 5:30 pm.
Language Documentation & Syntax Job Talks (spring 2010)The Language Documentation & Syntax Search Committee is pleased to be putting forward three candidates for the Language Documentation & Syntax professorship. As with the SLA job search, these candidates will be coming for on-site visits and lectures. Josh Jensen is the student representative on the Lang. Doc. search committee; please give him your feedback about candidates by Tuesday, Feb. 23, at 5:30 pm.
In addition to the job talks, the Lang. Doc. candidates will be teaching a model lesson (on topics chosen by them) in LING 2301: Introduction to the Study of Human Language. More details will become available soon. Spring 2010 Comprehensive and Diagnostic ExamsComprehensive/Diagnostic Exam Info SessionAn information session for students who will be taking the MA in Linguistics comprehensive exam or the PhD diagnostic exam this semester will be held on Friday, January 29, at 1-2 p.m. in the Linguistics Lab, Trimble Hall 014. Exam Date9 April (Fri.): The MA Comprehensive and PhD Diagnostic exams will take place on this day. (More information about the exams is available at Comprehensive and Diagnostic Exams in the Student Advising section of our site.) Portfolios & Mock InterviewsFriday, April 9, portfolios for MA TESOL students will be due. Friday, April 16 (9am-noon), Mock interviews for the MA TESOL students will be held. Open Lab Reception for New Speech Sounds LabDrop by the new Speech Sounds Lab, 301 Trimble Hall, this Friday, January 29, 2-4pm, for an Open Lab Reception to celebrate the opening of the new Speech Sounds Lab. Winter 2009 Departmental Newsletter NEW!The Department of Linguistics & TESOL has just published its Winter 2009 Newsletter (pdf), Volume 1, Issue 1. Download it to read a message from the chair about recent changes in the department; profiles of Dr. Cindy Kilpatrick and Dr. Joey Sabbagh, our two newest faculty members; an overview of our upgraded computer lab and new Speech Sounds Lab; and much more. Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOLThe 17th annual UT Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL (UTASCILT 17) will be held February 19-20, 2010 (Fri.-Sat.). More information is available at the conference page. Our keynote speaker will be Dr. William Croft. Dr. Christopher Stewart to Deliver Lecture on the Sociolinguistics of Parisian FrenchOn Friday, November 20, 2009, Dr. Christopher M. Stewart of UT Arlington's Department of Modern Languages is delivering a lecture entitled "The Sociolinguistics of Parisian French: Language Attitudes and Speech Perception." More details about this Linguistics Colloquium, as well as the abstract of Dr. Stewart's talk, are available on the event page. Two New Reading GroupsOur two newest faculty members have announced that they are forming bi-weekly reading groups. Go to our Reading Groups page for more details about the Phonetics and Phonology Reading Group (organized by Cindy Kilpatrick) and the Syntax Reading Group (organized by Joey Sabbagh). Dissertation Proposal Defense: Natalie Raun Carter Examines Threats in a CorpusOn Thursday, November 5, 2009, 12:30-2:30pm, Natalie Raun Carter will be defending her dissertaiton proposal, entitled "A Corpus-Based Study of Threats," in TH 200. The public presentation (approximately 12:30-2:00pm) is open to the public. First DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference, at UT ArlingtonOn Saturday, November 7, 2009, our department is hosting the first DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference, held in cooperation with the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics and the Department of Linguistics & Technical Communication at the University of North Texas. The schedule and linked abstracts are now available at the Metroplex Conference page. Dr. Anne H. Charity Hudley to Deliver Lecture on Service LearningOn Friday, October 30, 2-3:30pm, in Trimble Hall 200, Dr. Anne H. Charity Hudley of The College of William and Mary is delivering a lecture on service learning entitled "One Community in Multiple Voices: Engagement Scholarship in Linguistics and Education." This Festival of Ideas Global Research Institute event is presented by the Department of Linguistics & TESOL and The African American Faculty and Staff Association. A reception will follow at 3:30-5pm in Physics Conference Room (3rd Floor), Physics and Chemistry Building. More details at the event page. UTA Linguistics PhD named Distinguished Alumni for 2009The UT Arlington Alumni Association has honored Dr. Somsonge Burusphat (PhD in Humanities/Linguistics 1986) as a Distinguished Alumni for 2009. Dr. Burusphat has done extensive fieldwork on the languages and cultures of ethnic groups in Thailand and has written three books on the teaching of Thai. First Colloquium talk of the Semester: Min-Joo KimJoin us in for a departmental colloquium talk featuring Dr. Min-Joo Kim of Texas Tech University speaking on “The Variability of ‘There’-BE-Existentials with Participial Codas” (abstract): Friday, September the 25th at 2:00 p.m. in the third floor of the Physics Conference Room. A Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award Winner!Dr. David J. Silva, Professor of Linguistics and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, is one of nine UT Arlington faculty members to be selected as an inaugural recipient of the UT System Board of Regents' Outstanding Teaching Awards. The awards honor "exceptional faculty who care about their educational mission." Metroplex Linguistics ConferenceOur department will host the DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference on November 7, 2009. Abstracts are due on September 15, 2009 by 11:59 pm. Download the call for papers for details. Another Smotherman Award Winner!Dr. Laurel Smith Stvan has been selected as a recipient of this year's Alicia Wilkerson Smotherman Faculty Award, in recognition of research expertise and teaching abilities that have inspired students to create work of exceptional merit. UTA Linguists in the NewsOur department figures prominently in the 2009 issue of UT Arlington’s Research magazine. One feature-length story contains references to and quotations by Dr. Traci Weast (PhD in Linguistics 2008), who is continuing her research on the linguistics of American Sign Language. In addition, this year’s “Alumni Profile” features the very first person to earn a doctorate in linguistics at UT Arlington, our very own Dr. Robin Lombard (PhD in Linguistics 1997). Recent Dissertation and Thesis Defenses 24 September: Kenneth Zuercher, PhD Linguistics, (10:00 am room TH 014 -- Linguistics Lab) 30 June: Catharine Moore Welch, PhD Linguistics (1:00 am room TH 200) 5 June: Neal Szu-Yen Liang, PhD Linguistics (10:30 am room TH 200) 10 April: Paul Schaefer, PhD Linguistics (10:30 am, room TH 115) 13 April: Brett Benham, PhD Linguistics (12 noon, room TH 200) 20 April: Presley McFadden, MA TESOL (12 noon, room TH 200) Two New Faculty HiresThe Department of Linguistics & TESOL is pleased to announce that two new tenure-track faculty members will be joining our department in Fall 2009:
Join us in extending a warm welcome to both these linguists! Linguistics & TESOL at ACES SymposiumCongratulations to Tod Allman (PhD Linguistics student), who won a President's Award in the ACES competition for his presentation on "The Typology of Relative Clauses and Natural Language Generation." (See other student publications, presentations, and honors on the Student Accomplishments page.) Filing DeadlinesApplying?29 January (Fri.): If you're applying to the PhD program and wish to be considered for financial aid, your application must be submitted to the Graduate School on or before the last day of January. (Financial aid is not guaranteed to all applicants who submit their applications by the deadline; however, late applicants who are accepted to the program may not be eligible for financial assistance.) Defending?Linguistics and TESOL Students planning to defend a proposal, thesis or dissertation in the spring should review the clarification of the filing deadline for their degree: for PhD's, for MA's in Linguistics, for MA's in TESOL. Forms for ExamsAlso, students must submit forms stating their intention to take the exam:
Other NewsAlso check out our student and alumnus accomplishments, and faculty news. Past EventsLinguistics & TESOL at ACES SymposiumOn March 26, nine students from the Department of Linguistics & TESOL will be presenting at ACES (8 talks, 1 poster). ACES has posted a schedule of talks, a poster assignment list, and more at their website. Presenters were chosen by the ACES selection committee on the basis of 250-word abstracts. Student Conference in Linguistics05-06 March 2009 (Thurs.-Fri.): The 16th annual UT Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL (UTASCILT) will be held during the spring semester. Lingua's UTASCILT 16 page has additional information, including the speaking schedule and the abstracts booklet. Video As a Research Tool: An Interdisciplinary Workshop29-30 January 2009 (Thurs.-Fri.): This interdisciplinary workshop will focus on the use of video and visualization as a research tool in the humanities. It will include a screening of the Sundance-premiered documentary The Linguists, talks from UT Arlington faculty and others, and an interactive session in the e-Create Lab. More details on the Video as a Research Tool page. (And here's an article published at UT Arlington's News Center.) Free Indirect Thought in Languages with Oral Traditions19 November 2008 (Wed.): Dr. Todd McDaniels of Comanche Nation College will discuss discourse issues in Comanche and other languages. 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, 200 Trimble Hall. Find out more by reading the abstract of his talk. Brown Bag Panel: Linguistic Data Gathering05 November 2008 (Wed.): From 12:30 to 1:30 in 014 Trimble Hall (linguistics lab), three of our PhD students will talk about the ways that they have been collecting language data for their dissertation work:
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