Linguistics Student Association of the University of Alaska Fairbanks

03/28/2019

FAIRBANKS — The Alaska Native Language Archive is hosting an open house this evening in an effort to educate people on how to access archive materials, as well as show

04/06/2017

Hello all! As I'm sure you're all aware by now, this Saturday is our annual Linguistics Student Association Conference! It will be held from 11:30-4 in Wood Center Conference Room E/F. We have a wonderful line-up, and we hope to see everyone there!

This event is catered, if that's any incentive to show up, and we encourage everyone to check out the Native Studies Conference happening on the same day as well!

03/14/2017

What: UAF Linguistics Student Association Conference
When: April 8th, 2017
Where: University of Alaska, Fairbanks (exact locations TBA)

This is the official call for papers for the UAF LSA Conference 2017. We invite all linguistics students and faculty, including both graduate and undergraduate students involved in research, to participate! Anthropology students and faculty are also invited. All topics are welcome, though preference will be given to linguistics-related presentations.

If you are interested in presenting at the conference, please fill out the information below and send it along with a 100-word abstract to [email protected] by 5:00 PM on Monday, March 27th. The schedule of talks and selected poster presentations will be sent out on Wednesday, March 29th.

Please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions!

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Name:
Email:
Phone Number:

Are you an undergraduate student?:
If yes, what year:
In what department/program?
Are a graduate student?:
In what department/program?
Are you a faculty member:
If yes, in what department/program:

Title of Presentation:
Preferred Type (please check or otherwise mark):
o Poster
o Talk

03/08/2017

Hello everyone! We at the LSA are pleased to announce the kick-off for the new Linguistics Colloquium Series! This Thursday (March 9th), from 1-2 PM at Brooks 302, Dr. Patrick Marlow will be giving a talk called "Why Is Language Revitalization So Hard?". We have talks scheduled for the remainder of the semester, so please keep up-to-date on news coming out of the LSA!

04/24/2016

Hey there, everyone! We are very proud to announce that Lance Twitchell will be joining us here at UAF this coming week to present his talk: "OFFICIAL LANGUAGES, TRIBAL SCHOOLS, AND NEW MEDIA: FACILITATING STRUCTURAL CHANGES THAT FOSTER LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION IN ALASKA".

This talk explores the pieces in place and potential next steps for
reversing language shift for Alaska Native languages. By studying
Hawaiian, Māori, Sámi, and Gaelic language movements, one can see that Alaska is ready for structural changes that decolonize landscape, insert Tribal self-governance into education, and change the ways we value our indigenous languages.

Please join us April 28 at 2:30 PM in the Brooks Gathering Room for what is sure to be an amazing talk!

03/23/2016

FREE FOOD! DId that get your attention? ;)

Please check out the flyer for the LSA Student Conference this Saturday, March 26 from 12:30 PM to 6 PM in Wood Center Conference Room E/F!

We are all very excited to be presenting and hearing what is happening in the linguistics community here at UAF!

03/04/2016

Hey there, everyone! The Linguistics Student Association of UAF is very happy to announce the first Language Studies at UAF Conference on Saturday, March 26,2016. We are hoping to share the joys of what is happening in language studies here at UAF. If you have any papers, posters, or things you have studied in language (communications, TESOL, anthropology, Alaska Native Languages, English, linguistics, psychology and/or other fields) that you would like to to present, please refer to the poster below! If you have any questions, please be sure to email the Linguistics Student Association of UAF at [email protected] We look forward to hearing from you, and sharing in an amazing day of discussing language and linguistics!

Image credit: Falene McKenna

02/29/2016

For a glimpse of what happens here at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, check out this video describing some of the work done by Dr. Sabine Siekmann and her colleagues through the Improving Alaska Native Education through Computer Assisted Language Learning, and stay tuned for more!

Produced by student filmmakers participating in the Lower Kuskokwim School District's 2013 Film Academy in Bethel, Alaska. http://sites.lksdonline.org/summer...

02/29/2016

A phonetic description of the annoying sounds that teenagers (and other people for sure) make. Check out the cool things that you can do with phonetics! :)

This is what linguistics was invented for: so we could give precise phonetic descriptions of those rude sounds adolescents make. This accompanies the article...