This WBUR / Boston NPR feature on the Boston accent quotes Jim Stanford, a linguistics expert on this regional accent who is a faculty member in the Dartmouth Department of Linguistics.
Congratulations to Laura McPherson, Associate Professor of Linguistics, for being the recipient of the 2023 Howland Hand-Otis Norton Pierce Award, awarded to a member of the faculty who, in the opinion of the Board of Trustees, is an outstanding teacher of undergraduates.
The annual Department of Linguistics lunch for graduating seniors on June 7, 2023 provided a chance to award the departmental prizes for graduating seniors. This year's winners were Gabriel Gilbert '23 and Sarah Karnes '23.
Did you know that many Linguistics courses can be used to satisfy the Language Requirement for Proficient Speakers (LRP)?
See our listing of 2023-24 courses recommended for first-year students to see which ones fulfill the LRP!
In a hilarious exploration of modern language and its consistencies - and inconsistencies- Senior Lecturer in Classics and Linguistics Timothy Pulju shows the "Uncanny Science of Linguistic Reconstruction" and raises a dead language right before our eyes.
Join the Dartmouth Undergraduate Linguistics Club! The Dartmouth Undergraduate Linguistics Club (DULC) is an organization for students interested in linguistics at Dartmouth College. If you're a Dartmouth student and interested in joining or learning more about the organization, click here for more info.
Associate Professor of Linguistics Laura McPherson has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, which will support a six-month stay as a visiting scholar at the University of Cologne in Germany.