Category Archives: LL Main

AARDVARC Premier Conference a Success

May 9th –May 11th, 2013 marked the advent of ILIT’s development of the Automatically Annotated Repository of Digital Audio and Video Resources Community (henceforth known as AARDVARC). Thanks to the incredible teamwork demonstrated by EMU’s dynamic faculty, the motivated students and … Continue reading

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TEDxEMU Presentation by LL Editor Brent Woo

We are pleased to announce that on March 15, 2013 our own Brent Woo presented at the TEDxEMU talk. His presentation was entitled “Say A Command” and discussed how linguistics is an unknown name, but has a larger impact on … Continue reading

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Automatically Annotated Repository of Digital Audio and Video Resources Community

The first AARDVARC workshop will take place 9.-11. May, 2013 on the premises of Eastern Michigan University, in Ypsilanti, MI. We plan a series of invited plenary talks, software/tools/project presentations, and discussions in working groups. AARDVARC: Automatically Annotated Repository of … Continue reading

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A Day in the Life of Rebekah McClure, Graduate Student and LINGUIST List Editor

In this series of blog posts, we’ve asked some LINGUIST List staff members to share what it’s like to work at LINGUIST. This post was written by Rebekah McClure. She is currently finishing her first year in the Master’s program in … Continue reading

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Updates to the Student Portal

This past year we have been working hard to update our resources catered specifically to students in the section of the site called the Student Portal. Our team has gathered information from around the web into one part of our … Continue reading

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Subscribe to Our Posting Announcements Today!

Here at LINGUIST List, you’ve probably seen the many emails that we send out each day, but do you know how many issues we post each year in each area? In 2012, we posted a total of 4,971 issues! These … Continue reading

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ILIT Students Present Their Research

The past couple of weeks has been a busy time for our students. Not only are they completing their final exams, but they also recently presented their research to the public at the graduate research fair and the undergraduate symposium … Continue reading

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Finnish Origins Traced Back to Klingon

Several theories exist as to the geographic origin of Finnish and the other Uralic languages. One such theory, proposed this morning, is that they originated when Klingon ships landed somewhere around the Ural Mountains region and the bend of the middle Volga. … Continue reading

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LINGUIST Around the World: A Report from Cameroon

Editor’s Note: Our ELCat Team Leader, Anna Belew, attended a workshop and conference in Cameroon during the summer of 2012. This article was taken from our archives. Ever since I started studying documentary linguistics, my passion has been working with … Continue reading

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Green Thumbs at LINGUIST List: MultiTree Keeps on Growing!

The MultiTree team has been at it again! They have been planting, shaping, and pruning 21 trees this semester. Not just any type of tree: language trees. The goal of the MultiTree project is to provide a freely-accessible online library of trees representing language relationships that have been proposed scholars. The team takes … Continue reading

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