Chad Howe, Ph.D.

Dot-Eum (Rachel) Kim (PhD student, Linguistics Program) successfully defended her first Qualifying Paper today. The paper, entitled "Do you want to be called women or lady?", focuses on "linguistic change with regard to lexical variation--namely, contemporary preference for the use of female reference terms in a variety of contexts." Her committee, including Drs. Chamorro and Renwick, and I were impressed with Rachel's observations concerning what turned out to be quite a complex topic.

Congratulations to her on this important achievement!

Bethany Bateman (PhD student in Romance Languages) will be traveling to Stanford University next week to attend the Indigenous Languages of Latin America Workshop: Pedagagoy and Technology, put on my the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University. According to the website:

Philip Limerick (ABD, Romance Languages) has just received a Graduate Research Award through the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. The title of his project is "Investigating Language Change in a Georgia Latino Community." He will be using this award to facilitate his dissertation research. Congratulations to Philip!

Mohammad Al Jutaily will be presenting at this weekend's installment of the University of Alabama's Languages Conference. His talk, entitled "Length of residency in a language contact setting and its influence on the degree of sound variation in speech community", is on Friday, February 17th in the afternoon session. Best of luck to Mohammad on his talk!