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Undergraduate and doctoral programs in the scientific, computational, and humanistic study of human language. Undergraduate language program in ASL.
Austin, TX
Joined November 2015
The start of the Fall 2025 semester is approaching oh-so-soon! We want to highlight this course offered this upcoming semester by Professor Akshay Aitha. Seats are still available!
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Congratulations to UT Linguistics honors student Venus Shirazy (@itsvenusnotmars) on winning an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, one of only three linguistics awards this year! After an amazing record at UT, she's off next to University of Chicago for her PhD! Congrats, Venus!
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Congratulations to doctoral student, Taylor Joyce, for winning the 2024-2025 Humanities Research Award. They are one of six awardees. Click on the link for more info!
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UT Linguistics is on a roll at #EMNLP2024! Congrats to Prof. Kyle Mahowald (@kmahowald) and Prof. Jessy Li (@jessyjli), and their respective coauthors, for winning Outstanding Paper Awards!.
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Congratulations to doctoral student, Jessica Alexander, for winning a fellowship from the UT Libraries Scholars Lab. She is one of five inaugural fellows. Click on the link for more information!
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The Department of Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin is hiring for two positions whose work is on computational linguistics. See the following link for more details:
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Join us on Oct. 24th (2pm Central) for a chat with David Player as he talks about lexical variation in ASL used in New Mexico! The talk will be presented in ASL for an ASL signing audience. Hosted by UT Linguistics and STEMSign.
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The Department of Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin is hiring a tenure-track faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor whose work is on the languages of South Asia! See the following link for more details:
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Huge congratulations to our very own Jessy Li (@jessyjli ), Associate Professor of Linguistics, who is part of the new NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins at UT! See below for more info.
The exciting new NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins, aka CosmicAI, includes three Good Systems researchers on its team: Jessy Li (@jessyjli), Arya Farahi (@aryafarahi) & Matt Lease (@mattlease), who will serve as its co-director. Learn more here:
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Huge congrats to our colleague Hans Kamp, who, with Irene Heim (MIT), was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy by the Royal Swedish Academies of Science, Music and Fine Arts, for their foundational work on dynamic theories of semantics!
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This year’s laureates are the philosophers and linguists Hans Kamp and Irene Heim, mathematician Lai-Sang Young, director, screenwriter and artist Steve McQueen, and singer Oumou Sangaré.
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The 23rd meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society will be held on February 23rd and 24th at the Glickman Conference Center in the Robert Patton Building (RLP) from 9 AM to 5 PM. A special session will focus on computational methods. Visit for details.
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Justin Power & Richard Meier's talk on the Martha’s Vineyard signing community will be shown this Sunday, Feb 11, at 2pm CST on CSPAN 3. Their work on the historical demography of the island's signing community was recently published in JDSDE
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Abstract. The deaf population of Martha’s Vineyard has fascinated scholars for more than a century since Alexander Graham Bell’s research on the frequent o
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The 23rd Texas Linguistics Society conference will be held on Feb. 23-24, 2024. Feel free to submit your abstract through EasyChair - by Dec. 9. Virtual participants are also welcomed! If you have any questions, please email tls.conference@gmail.com.
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Huge congrats to our colleague David Beaver (@David_Beaver) on the publication of his new book, The Politics of Language! Coauthored with Jason Stanley, this groundbreaking work explores the ways political and social identity shape meaning in communication. See below for more!.
My book with Jason Stanley, the Politics of Language, is out today! It's about how people make meaning, about how meaning resonates, and how we hide meaning in plain sight. We "hustle". Our hidden meanings hustle our friends towards us, and our enemies away.
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Our department has begun the search for a new faculty member!.The job posting for Assistant or Associate Professor – Study of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America is available to all who may be interested. Click the link for all the details:
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Roger Schank, who taught at Stanford, Yale, and Northwestern Universities, passed away at age 76 on January 29, 2023. The New York Times has published an obituary for our alumnus Roger Schank (Ph.D. 1969).
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He combined linguistics, cognitive science and computing with the goal of “trying to understand the nature of the human mind.”
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Cristian Juárez successfully defended his dissertation “A typology of valence and valence-like changing mechanisms in Northern Chaco Mocovi (Guaycuruan, Argentina)”. He will be a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. Congratulations!
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RT @AILLA_archive: Announcing episode 6 of 7 of the Nora England Oral History Project:."Seizing Opportunities in the Field".Watch it here:….
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Jaime Pérez González (Ph.D., 2021) has accepted a tenure-track position in Linguistics at UC Santa Barbara. He will be on leave, while he finishes his post-doc at Santa Cruz. Then in Fall 2023 he begins his teaching career at Santa Barbara. Congratulations, Jaime!
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RT @AILLA_archive: Announcing episode 4 of 7 of the Nora England Oral History Project:."Discussion: Language Materials".Watch it here: http….
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