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Linguistics goes Hollywood!

Linguistics (co-)sponsored two talks last week with speakers with Hollywood connections: David and Jessie Peterson, who created conlangs for Game of Thrones and many other shows, and Jessica Coon, who consulted on the movie Arrival.
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AnderBois gives two talks in Bolivia

Faculty member Scott AnderBois and co-authors Nathaniel Scott '24 and Shen Aguinda (Comunidad Cofán Dureno) spoke at the 4th International Linguistics Colloquium in Bolivia in La Paz. AnderBois also spoke to undergrads at Universidad Mayor de San Simón in Cochabamba in a separate event.
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AnderBois and partner organization open field station

Linguistics professor Scott AnderBois traveled to Ecuador to continue work with A'i colleagues on A'ingae dictionary, making use of the new field station built with ICCA, an indigenous-led NGO.
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Brown faculty and students at SALT 35

Faculty member Scott AnderBois and co-authors gave two talks at Semantics and Linguistic Theory 35 hosted by Harvard University including one presented by current undergraduate co-authors Daniel Kang '25 and Koda Li '26.
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Field Methods class participates in "K'iche' in Community" event

Students in Scott AnderBois' class LING 1870 Linguistic Field Methods engaged with educators, activists, and members of the local K'iche' community as part of an event co-sponsored with CLACS and Education.
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Brown linguists and alums at the LSA

Brown was well represented at the Linguistic Society of America with faculty, students, and alumni making presentations
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AnderBois and colleagues publish two new papers

Associate Professor AnderBois has two new papers, one in Cadernos de Etnolingüística co-authored with former visiting faculty member Chelsea Sanker, and one in Language and Linguistics Compass with undergrad alum Maksymilian Dąbkowski '19.5.
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Linguistics at NWAV!

Members of the Brown University Program in Linguistics recently attended the New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference in Miami, Florida.
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Linguistics student appears on Scrabble TV show

Linguistics concentrator Jeffrey Pogue '27 applied his knowledge from LING 0130 "Playing with Words: the Linguistic Principles behind word games and puzzles" to game show glory
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Linguistics Hosts BUGLE III

Students presented their work on various topics in linguistics to faculty and peers.
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Uriel Cohen Priva at LabPhon

Associate Professor Uriel Cohen Priva presented at the 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology.
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AnderBois receives Engaged Faculty Award

Linguistics Professor Scott AnderBois is the recipient of the 2024 Howard R. Swearer Engaged Faculty Award for his community centered language documentation work with A'i communities in Ecuador.
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Brown Linguists at CILLA X

AnderBois and Harvey present papers at the 10th Congreso de Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica (Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America)
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Brown Linguistics at NWAV

Members of our community both attended and presented at the 51st annual New Ways of Analyzing Variation Conference in Queens, New York.
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Jacobson at Edinburgh Conference

Polly Jacobson gave an invited talk at the conference "English Language and Linguistic Theory: A Tribute to Geoff Pullum" held at the University of Edinburgh on Aug. 31.
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Collaborative language work in Ecuador

The A’ingae Language Documentation Project (ALDP) team convened outside of Lago Agrio, Ecuador for a phonetics and orthography workshop and traveled downriver to Zábalo for recordings relating to nasality in A’ingae.
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AnderBois in The Atlantic on the linguistics of crosswords

Together with colleagues Kyle Mahowald (Univ. of Texas Linguistics) and Nicholas Tomlin (AB ‘19; currently UC Berkeley Computer Science PhD program), Scott AnderBois published a piece in The Atlantic on “The Unspoken Language of Crosswords”.
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AnderBois gives intensive semantics course in Oaxaca

In June, Scott AnderBois traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico to give an intensive introduction to formal semantics as part of an intensive workshop-course on Quantification.
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Zheng and AnderBois publish book chapter

Holly Zheng (Linguistics AB, 2022) and Scott AnderBois’s chapter titled “Definiteness in A’ingae and Its Implications for Pragmatic Competition” appeared in the book Formal Approaches to Languages of South America, edited by Andrés Saab and Cilene Rodrigues (Springer).
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Jacobson at MIT Linglunch

Polly Jacobson gave a talk at MIT Linglunch entitled “A Categorial Grammar view of syntactic categories: Some happy coordination surprises”.
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