Archive: Linguistics
29 Articles
- News Story
Georgetown Grad Student Team Wins International Natural Language Processing Challenge
Team members are current and former students of the computational linguistics and computer science.…
October 29, 2025
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What Does ‘6-7’ Mean? We Don’t Know Either, So We Asked a Linguistics Professor
Linguistics professor Cynthia Gordon unpacks the two numbers that have perplexed — and frustrated — parents, teachers and Americans across the country this.…
October 23, 2025
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College of Arts & Sciences Alumni Gain Firsthand Experience in Germany’s Parliament
Helen Poe (C’22) and Soma Arens (C’24) spent five months this year working in the German Bundestag, Germany’s main legislative body, in.…
August 22, 2025
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How Georgetown Linguists, Legal Expert Scored a Win in Supreme Court ‘Ghost Guns’ Case
A Georgetown team of two linguists and a law professor celebrated an achievement at the Supreme Court after their amicus (“friend of the court”) brief was cited in the 7-to-2…
June 12, 2025
- CAS Magazine: Students
Called to Action: Hoyas in Service to Others
Two recipients of the Lena Landegger Community Service Award, Urooj Ahmed (C'24) and Caroline Vail (C'24) answer the call to be of service to. …
September 26, 2024
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Anna De Fina (G’99) Knighted by the Italian Republic
Anna De Fina (G’99), a renowned linguist in the College of Arts & Sciences, was knighted in the Order of Merit of the Italian…
December 21, 2023
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The Linguistic Phenomenon Behind Taylor Swift’s Superstardom
In this Ask a Professor, Cynthia Gordon breaks down the linguistics behind Taylor Swift’s meteoric rise in the music industry and how she cultivates a devoted fan base through…
July 7, 2023
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Georgetown Linguist Awarded NEH Grant for Digital Coptic Project
Amir Zeldes has been awarded a grant of nearly $350,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of his project Coptic Scriptorium, a website devoted to Coptic…
June 8, 2023
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College of Arts & Sciences Professor Awarded Grant for Algorithmic Metalinguistic Analysis
The National Science Foundation has awarded Nathan Schneider a grant of more than $500,000 to develop algorithms to analyze metalinguistic…
December 19, 2022
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Wise Fools: College Students Reflect on First-Year
Last year, we took the opportunity to ask fresh faces on campus about themselves and their plans for their career at Georgetown. This year, we revisited with those students to…
October 19, 2022