Acrisio Pires received a UofM faculty grant and award to work on the research project “Acquisition of syntax: Implications for theories of language change and dialectal variation.”

The project aims at continuing experimental work testing adults (monolingual and bilingual heritage speakers), children and teenagers. The goal is to evaluate whether native knowledge of syntax and semantics can be affected by (late) exposure to a (standard) dialect showing grammatical properties which are no longer productive in colloquial/vernacular dialects.

Chris Odato has received a Graduate Student Research Award from the Institute for Research on Women and Gender for work on his dissertation.

Congratulations, Chris!

Cati Fortin (PhD, 2007; Outstanding Dissertation Award Winner) has accepted a tenure-track position in the Program in Linguistics at Carleton College.

Congratulations, Cati!

Susan Lin, Miki Obata and Chris Odato have all received one of the highly competitive Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Awards.

The awards offer 12 mos. of funding for the completion of the dissertation.

Congratulations and well-done Susan, Miki and Chris!