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Graduate Program Open House
Purdue University’s Department of Linguistics will hold a virtual open house on November 17, 2023. Join us to learn about our graduate program, discuss research with professors, and meet current graduate students. Funded Teaching and Research Assistantships are available for accepted students. Full schedule and registration link are available here.
MidPhon 28
We successfully organized and hosted the 28th Midcontinental Phonetics and Phonology Conference at Purdue University on October 20-21, 2023. MidPhon 28 is an annual meeting that brings together phonetics and phonology researchers from the Midwestern region of the United States. You can find more information here.
Purdue Linguistics Symposium 2020
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
3-4 April, 2020
The Department of Linguistics at Purdue University is holding its annual conference on linguistics called Purdue Linguistics Symposium (PLS) 2020. We invite scholars working within all theoretical and applied areas of linguistics to submit their research and join us at PLS 2020. Topics include, but are not limited to: syntax, semantics, syntax-semantics interface, phonetics, phonology, morphology,pragmatics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, sign language, and corpus linguistics.
We are pleased to have the following plenary speakers:
Dr. Rex A. Sprouse from Indiana University, Bloomington. Dr. Sprouse researches Second Language Acquisition, Structure and History of the Languages of Western Europe, Syntactic Theory, and Language Contact.
Dr. Daniel Olson from Purdue University. Dr. Olson researches Phonetics and Phonology; Prosody, Intonation, and Suprasegmental Phonetics; Psycholinguistics; Second Language Acquisition; Bilingualism
Find us on Facebook at: Purdue Linguistics Symposium 2020: Language in Action
Past News and Events
Elaine Francis' class on invented languages featured in THiNK Magazine
Press release - Ph.D. student Mengxi Lin's research
Dr. Ronnie Wilbur won the 2014 Helen B. Schleman Gold Medallion for contributions to advancing women's issues at Purdue.
Press release - Dr. Amanda Seidl's research.
Sundquist receives Murphy Award
Linguistic Inequality and Sociolinguistic Justice in Campus Life
"Language Mixing from a Computational Perspective," by Dr. Bullock and Dr. Toribio
"Restoring Silent Voices: Revitalizing Native American Languages" by Wilhelm Meya
"Speech Perception and Early Word Learning: Multisensory Foundations" by Janet Werker