Archive: Linguistics

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Faculty of Languages and Linguistics Celebrates End of Academic Year with Awards

Georgetown University’s College of Arts and Sciences gathered to celebrate the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics (FLL) in an annual awards.…

May 24, 2022

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The Science of Speech: Ph.D. Student Helen Dominic Researches Improvements in Ways We Handle Immigrant Care

For patients who are not fluent in English, language barriers can cause miscommunication between the patient and their medical team, even when a third party interpreter is…

March 16, 2022

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Linguistics Team Wins Competition, Professor Receives Accolades

A team of Ph.D. students representing the Department of Linguistics Corpling Lab won top marks in all five categories of DISRPT 2021, a recurring computational linguistics…

December 7, 2021

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Our Class of 2025: Student Perspectives from the Newest Cohort of Hoyas

We are thrilled to welcome the newest members of the Georgetown community to campus this. …

September 14, 2021

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Rising Senior Completes Internship as Health Care Journalist with DC Newspaper

John Woolley (C’22) spent his summer working for Street Sense Media in Washington, DC to gain experience as a political reporter. After writing about health care for the paper,…

August 16, 2021

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Önder, Hamilton Receive Faculty Awards at Tropaia and Faculty of Languages and Linguistics Ceremonies

Two faculty professors were honored during the annual Tropaia and Faculty of Languages and Linguistics (FLL) Ceremonies on Saturday. Sylvia Önder was awarded the Edward B. Bunn,…

May 22, 2021

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Linguistics Professor Deborah Tannen Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Department of Linguistics professor Deborah Tannen was recently chosen to become a member of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The linguist joins a group of…

May 17, 2021

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New Book by Linguistics Professor Gives New Insights to Field of Cognitive Science

David Lightfoot, a professor in the Department of Linguistics and co-director of the PhD-level Interdisciplinary Concentration in Cognitive Science, recently published Born to…

November 23, 2020

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First-Year Student Presented Paper at Prestigious Computational Linguistics Conference

Even before receiving an offer of admission to Georgetown, incoming first-year student Aryaman Arora (C’24) was making waves as a budding computational. …

August 27, 2020

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Three College Professors Honored With Prestigious Research and Teaching Awards

Alison Mackey, Department of Linguistics, John McNeill, Department of History, and Cristina Sanz, Department of Spanish and Portuguese joined Italo Mocchetti, Georgetown…

November 5, 2019