News Archives
McNeel Jantzen collaborates on ‘King of the Neuro Verse’
Author Idris Goodwin and Linguistics Professor and Director of the Language and Neural Systems Lab McNeel Janzen collaborated with theater faculty, students and alumni to bring a new, original play to life.
R. Mata featured in Atlas Obscura
"There’s No Right Way to Say ‘Taco’," by Dan Nosowitz, featuring WWU Linguistics Professor R. Mata, explores how the pronunciation of "taco" in English, diverging from its original Spanish pronunciation, reflects broader linguistic phenomena. It delves into how people adapt foreign words to their native tongue and what these adaptations reveal about cultural identity and how individuals wish to be perceived.
One Quick Question
Dr. Kristin Denham answers the question, "Generation Alpha's slang is in the news lately; is it a unique phenomenon or is there a pattern in how each generation forms its own slang?"
Ari Rose to present research at FASAL 15
Ari Rose to present their research at FASAL 15.
Decoding the sounds of the rainforest
Neal Digre, ‘16, is using the machine learning and linguistics skills he learned at WWU in the $10 million XPRIZE Rainforest competition.
Read the full story by John Thompson
Dr. Kristin Denham
Professor Kristin Denham, Department of Linguistics, has been inducted into the 2024 class of Fellows of the Linguistics Society of America.
Linguistic Sleuth
Read about the fascinating research of WWU's Dr. Edward Vajda
Story by John Thompson
The Podling: Season 3
Produced and hosted by WWU linguistics students, The Podling season 3 is available now!
WWU LING Student Named 2021 Presidential Scholar
Linguistics and Spanish major, Brahm vanWoerden, has been chosen as the 2021 Presidential Scholar of the Humanities Division of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences
WWU LING Student Presents at CULC15
Aspen Clark, '21, linguistics, presented their research at the 15th annual Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium (CULC15), May 2021.
CMC Conversation hosts WWU Linguistics professor
Edward Vajda was recently interviewed by by radio host Charles McCullough in a podcast titled "Comparing Siberian Ket language to Native American languages"
Edward Vajda co-authors new Yeniseian dictionary
Edward Vajda, who teaches linguistics, Russian, and Eurasian studies in Western’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Heinrich Werner, the world's foremost expert on Yeniseic (Yeniseian) languages, sought to create a comparative-historical Yeniseian dictionary that is readily accessible to English speakers.
Western Linguistics professors publish 'Thinking like a Linguist'
Western Professor of Linguistics Kristin Denham and Assistant Professor of Linguistics Jordan Sandoval have published a new book that introduces the study of language for undergraduate and beginning graduate students who would like to further their linguistics studies.
In Memoriam
We lost an important member of our linguistics community, Dr. Shaw Gynan. Read Dr. Shaw's story.
Western Linguistics professor coauthored new book
Edward Vajda, professor of linguistics, Russian, and Eurasian Studies in Western’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences, along with his long-time colleague Michael Fortescue (professor emeritus, University of Copenhagen), have published a new book, Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America.
Dr. Anne Lobeck
Professor of Linguistics Dr. Anne Lobeck was inducted into the 2021 class of Fellows of the Linguistics Society of America.
