Linguistics Content

New Episode of ‘The Backdrop’ Podcast Features Lewis Lawyer on Documenting One of California’s Indigenous Languages

Soterios J Johnson — August 03, 2021 - 9:00am

In what is now California, close to 100 Indigenous languages were spoken before Europeans arrived. According to UNESCO, most of the languages native to the Americas are critically endangered — many others are entirely extinct.

Linguist Lewis Lawyer, a ��ɫ��Ƶ alumnus, has compiled the first-ever published description of one of those languages, Patwin — originally spoken in hundreds of communities in Northern California.

Speaking and Listening Seem More Difficult in a Masked World, But People Are Adapting

Karen Michele Nikos — February 02, 2021 - 9:20am

Ten months into COVID-19 living, people are adapting to speaking from behind, and understanding others who are wearing, a cloth face mask.

Researchers Study How Cochlear Implants Affect Brain Circuits

Andy Fell — June 30, 2016 - 12:25pm

Cochlear implants have been widely used, but not all children respond well to the devices, which bypass most of the ear to connect a microphone to the cochlea in the inner ear. Researchers at the ��ɫ��Ƶ Center for Mind and Brain, supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, are studying how deaf children with cochlear implants use various brain areas to process sound. The goal is to come up with interventions that will help children better adapt to the implants.

Fulbright Awards Send ��ɫ��Ƶ Grads Overseas to Teach English, Research

Julia Ann Easley — May 26, 2016 - 11:18am

Update 5:30 p.m. May 26: After the news release below was published, Courtney Jallo of Davis became the latest of six ��ɫ��Ƶ students and graduates to be awarded a grant under the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Both an alumna and employee of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, she plans to research land management practices and agroforestry important to the Kandy area of Sri Lanka.