2024-09-11
- We are excited to welcome several new reading and discussion groups this year, and to welcome back our many long-standing groups! This semester, we have a total of eleven reading and discussion groups.
If you are considering joining a new reading group, please take a look at the groups below, or learn more on our...
2024-09-06 - The Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference is an annual meeting that brings together phonetics and phonology researchers from the Midwestern region of the United States. This year, we are excited to host the conference here at UIUC! MidPhon 29 will take place on Friday, October 4th (at...
2024-09-04 - We would like to welcome new faculty members for whom this Fall is their first semester. Let's meet these new additions to the department! Take a look below to find out more about these exciting new faculty members: Karina Tachihara Assistant Professor My research explores how...
2024-08-25 - Greetings! To those who are returning, welcome back, and to those who are joining the department officially this fall, welcome and best wishes as you launch an important new chapter of your life as a member of the UIUC linguistics family. We are joined by 43 new undergraduate majors (25 in CS+LING, 17 in Linguistics, and 1 in Ling-TESL), and 24 new...
2024-08-12 - Congratulations to PhD student Amy Atiles for receiving an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant! This award will support her research: An intervention study on the acquisition of articles by second language learners. The NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant allows graduate students to undertake significant data-gathering...
2024-07-29 - This year, Linguistics Instructor Ali Saeedi received an SLCL Summer Fellowship for Specialized Faculty because of his work “The Race for Quality: Comparing Neural Machine and AI-Powered Translation Performance in the American Translators Association Exam”. Congratulations to Ali for this award! To learn more about Ali's research, take a look at his answers to the questions...
2024-06-19 - Congratulations to Xun Yan, who was recently announced as the recipient of the 2024 SAGE/ILTA Best Monograph Award for the recent volume: Local Language Testing: Design, Implementation and Development . This volume, published with co-...
2024-06-07 - Wang Cong taught English in China for six years before arriving at the University of Illinois, but when she arrived on campus Cong knew that communicating isn’t just about proper spelling and grammar but also a grasp of the cultural nuances around the language. She still had a lot to learn about English to make the most of her time here as a student. One of Cong’s personal philosophies,...
2024-06-05 - This past May, we celebrated the dedication of the Chin-Woo Kim Phonetics Laboratory! This ceremony celebrates the accomplishments of Dr. Chin-Woo Kim in expanding research in Linguistics on UIUC's campus. Dr. Kim first came to the University of Illinois in 1967. He has served the campus in many ways, including as the Head of...
2024-05-28 - Congratulations to Dr. Anna Mendoza, on being selected to receive the LEAP (Lincoln Excellence Assistant Professor) Scholar award for 2024-26! The LEAP Award is granted to distinguished early-career faculty at the University of Illinois who demonstrate the highest caliber of academic achievement. Nominees are evaluated on scholarly productivity and contributions to the educational...
2024-05-16 - The Linguistics Department just hosted the 17th Meeting of the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA-17)! The biannual academic conference took place on May 2nd – 4th at the Levis Faculty Center and attracted 148 registered attendees. GASLA-17 welcomed linguists to present theoretically informed research...
2024-05-14 - We are excited to announce that Computational Construction Grammar by UIUC's Jonathan Dunn was published last week by Cambridge University Press! This Element introduces a usage-based computational approach to Construction Grammar that draws on techniques from natural language processing and unsupervised machine learning. This work explores how to represent constructions, how...
2024-05-13 - The U.S. Department of State announced the selection of UIUC ESL Senior Lecturer John Kotnarowski for an English Language Specialist project focusing on teaching academic writing in Kazakhstan. Kotnarowski is part of a select group, as his project is one of over 250 that the English Language Specialist Program supports each year. To learn more about John's work and...
2024-05-09 - Through April 19-21, 2024, a significant milestone was achieved with the inception of the inaugural U.S. Universities Arabic Midwest Debate Championship at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The event was coordinated by the Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Program and the...
2024-05-06 - On Wednesday May 1st, our department gathered for its annual Year-End Graduation and Awards Celebration. It was a wonderful time to reflect on the past year, and to recognize our amazing students. Congratulations to our awardees! We wish you continued growth and success! Awards Prestigious Non- Departmental Awards Graduate College dissertation completion fellowship (23-24 AY...