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Collections of speech and text, known as corpora, have long played a key role in linguistics.

Kim Waters, doctoral candidate in the Linguistics Department, served as co-moderator of two events, with Dr. Sujata Iyengar of UGA’s English Department, in the November conference, Scenes in the Other’s Language / Scénes dans la langue de l’autre.

Congratulations to lead editor Prof. Jared Klein and editorial assistant Dr. Mark Wenthe on the publication (2017-2018) of the three-volume Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics, issued by De Gruyter Mouton.

UGA will host an intensive Eye Tracking Research Academy from September 18-23, 2018, sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, and instructed by a world-renowned eye tracking expert, Dr. Kenneth Holmqvist (Regensburg University, Germany).

We are very happy to announce the appointment of Dr. John Hale as the Arch Professor of World Languages and Cultures in the Department of Linguistics. Dr. Hale received his Sc.B. degree from Brown University and his Ph.D.