Linguistics at Northeastern

06/12/2024

Professor Littlefield's Summer 1 2024 Honors Seminar on Language & Power is hosting a Portfolio Expo next week! See below for more information.

06/05/2023

Professor Littlefield's Summer 1 2023 Honors Seminar on Language & Power is hosting a Portfolio Expo later this month! See below for more information.

12/20/2022

The Linguistics Program is happy to share this news item about our Co-op opportunity in Prof. Dr. Shanley Allen’s research group in psycholinguistics at the University of Kaiserslautern -- click the link below to take a look (and practice your German!).

Die US-amerikanische Studentin Anja Castro-Diephouse absolvierte ein sechsmonatiges Praktikum in der Forschungsgruppe von Professorin Dr. Shanley Allen an der TU in Kaiserslautern. Im Rahmen ihres Au…

07/13/2022

The Linguistics Program is currently searching for a new Program Assistant!

For more information or to apply check out the job description here:

About the Opportunity Responsibilities and Summary The Program Assistant is a key member of the Linguistics Program team. Working closely with the Program Director, other faculty leaders, and academic support staff, the Program Assistant oversees the presence of the program both on-campus and virtua...

03/09/2022

Free Books!!

If anyone is interested in one of these books/journals, they're up for grabs in the Linguistics office. Just shoot me an email ([email protected]) if you'd like to pick one (or more) up!

02/23/2022

Join us next week on Thursday, March 3, from 6-7 for a talk from Dr. Joshua Griffiths, Assistant Teaching Professor of French in the World Languages Center! The talk will be given via zoom, and anyone from the Northeastern community is welcome to join!

zoom link: https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/93214983622?pwd=b29RSng0bS9nNE9RaUVCcTdZdTFTUT09

10/07/2021

Call for German or Bengali speaker!

Dr. Painter is currently looking for a volunteer who is a native, or near-native, speaker of German or Bengali to take part in a short language demonstration in his Ling 3420: Phonetics course from 10:45a - 11:35a on Thursday, October 21, 2021. The demonstration involves the volunteer reading a word-list of 45-60 items and reviewing how to articulate certain sounds to the students in the course; speakers would need to meet with Dr. Painter for 15 minutes at some point in the week before the meeting to go over the word-list. This meeting will likely be held via Zoom so students can see the volunteer articulate sounds unmasked, but it is also possible for the volunteer to come to the in-person class. Native speakers are compensated for their time with a $25 e-gift card to Amazon. If you either speak one of these languages, or have a reliable friend in the NU community who does, please have them contact Dr. Painter at: r dot painter at northeastern dot edu. Thank you.

10/07/2021

Join us this Wednesday, October 13, from 6-7pm ET on zoom for our Graduate School Panel!

We'll be welcoming back some of our alumni for a panel discussion on the topic of applying to graduate school. Three recent graduates of our program who are currently pursuing graduate degrees in three different fields – computational linguistics, library science, and speech-language pathology – will be participating, as will Prof. Littlefield, who will offer a faculty perspective.

All from the Northeastern community are welcome to join!

Link to join: https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/93017138561?pwd=VUsvU1h5QTNGeW9SUjRIL3FGR205QT09

09/01/2021

The latest volume of the Northeastern University Working Papers in Linguistics (NUWPL) has just been published! Congratulations and thank you to our student authors Hannah Lee, Carolina Mack, and Eric Scherer who were published this year!

You can read Volume 6 on the new website where the NUWPL is housed: https://nuwpl.sites.northeastern.edu/

08/04/2021

The Summer Linguistics Series is back! Join us to hear from different speakers who will each go into detail on a specific language. The first talk will be next Wednesday, August 11 from 6-7pm ET (on zoom) from Prof. Littlefield on Fula!

Anyone from the Northeastern community is welcome to join!

zoom link: https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/99046090851?pwd=cG1TVnpOK1pzWWxmTGZrOGxKcXRHdz09

06/21/2021

The HONR3310: Language and Power Portfolio Exhibition is now open! Students from Prof. Littlefield's HONR3310 course are presenting their portfolios exploring the connection between language and power structures.

The exhibition will remain open for anyone to visit this week through Sunday, June 27th. Please stop by via Padlet to take a look at some of the work! For questions or comments, You can engage with the student authors using the comments sections with their presentations.

Padlet URL:
https://padlet.com/hlittlefield/HONR3310

04/30/2021

Congratulations to Naomi Trevino who won an award at RISE this year for her work titled "It Takes a Village: Building a Cherokee Language Learning Tool"!

The RISE Expo is followed by the Awards Reception where we will recognize students’ exceptional research. View past winners from 2019 to 2013.