University Professor Keith Langston is Professor of Linguistics and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Slavic Linguistics from Yale University, where he also taught for three years as a lecturer before joining the UGA faculty in 1995. His research interests include Slavic prosody and the phonology/morphology interface; historical Slavic linguistics and accentology; and sociolinguistics, with a focus on questions of language and identity and language contact in the former Yugoslavia. He is currently PI for the NSF-funded project "Endangered languages in contact in Istria and Kvarner, Croatia: A multilingual spoken corpus for language documentation and research." Education Education: Ph.D., Slavic Linguistics, Yale UniversityM.A., Slavic Linguistics, Yale UniversityB.Mus., Piano Performance, University of Alabama Research Areas of Interest: Corpus Methods Historical Linguistics Phonetics and Phonology Sociolinguistics and Language Variation Syntax and Morphology Specific Research Areas: Slavic prosody and the phonology/morphology interface; historical Slavic linguistics and accentology; and sociolinguistics, with a focus on questions of language and identity and language contact in the former Yugoslavia. Grants: National Science Foundation (BCS #2220425). "Endangered languages in contact: A multilingual spoken corpus for language documentation and research," $449,712. Principal Investigator, 2022-2026. Selected Publications Selected Publications: Austin Jones, Shulin Zhang, John Hale, Margaret Renwick, Zvjezdana Vrzić, and Keith Langston. 2024. “Comparing Kaldi-based pipeline ELPIS and Whisper for Čakavian transcription.” In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics (Field Matters 2024), pages 61–68, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.fieldmatters-1.8 Shulin Zhang, John Hale, Margaret Renwick, Zvjezdana Vrzić, and Keith Langston. 2024. “An Evaluation of Croatian ASR Models for Čakavian Transcription.” In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 1098–1104, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.98/ Petar Vuković and Keith Langston. 2020. “Croatian”. In Lenore Grenoble, Pia Lane, and Unn Røyneland (eds.), Linguistic Minorities in Europe Online. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lme.11420181. Langston, Keith. 2020. “Čakavian.” In Greenberg, Marc L. et al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online. Leiden–Boston: Brill. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_032011. Langston, Keith. 2018. Evaluating the Effects of Language Planning Efforts in Croatia: Evidence from Corpus Data. In Stephen M. Dickey and Mark Richard Lauersdorf (eds.), V zeleni drželi zeleni breg: Studies in Honor of Marc L. Greenberg. Columbus, OH: Slavica, 157-198. Langston, Keith. 2018. Prescriptive Accentual Norms vs. Usage in Croatian: An Acoustic Study of Standard Pronunciation. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 26(2), 245-305.Langston, Keith. 2018. The Documentation of Slavic. In Jared Klein, Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz, and Mark Wenthe (eds.), Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics, Vol 3. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 41/3.) Berlin-New York: De Gruyter Mouton, 1397-1413.Langston, Keith. 2018. The Morphology of Slavic. In Jared Klein, Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz, and Mark Wenthe (eds.), Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics, Vol 3. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 41/3.) Berlin-New York: De Gruyter Mouton, 1538-1557. Langston, Keith. 2017. Slavic Sociolinguistics in the Post-Iron Curtain World: A Survey of Recent Research. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 25(2): 417-440. Langston, Keith and Anita Peti-Stantić. 2014. Language planning and national identity in Croatia. Basingstoke-New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Peti-Stantić, Anita and Keith Langston. 2013. Hrvatsko jezično pitanje danas: Identiteti i ideologije [The Croatian Language Question Today: Identities and Ideologies]. Zagreb: Srednja Europa. Langston, Keith. 2006. Čakavian Prosody: The Accentual Patterns of the Čakavian Dialects of Croatian. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers. Awards, Honors and Recognitions Awards and Special Recognitions: University Professor, 2024 Courses Taught Courses Taught: LING 2100 LING 3250 LING 4905/6905 LING 8021 LING 8120
