Photo Gallery of Linguists Around the World

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: Maggie Stack’s daughter, brushing up on her Optimality Theory while she’s still in her critical period.

: Dan Slobin reading in a guest room of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

: Naomi Palosaari (wearing a LINGUIST List T-shirt) on linguistic fieldwork in Motozintla de Mendoza, Chiapas, Mexico with Doña Juana Méndez Mattías

: E. Wayles Browne reading his Bosnian > English translations from the works of the Bosnian poet Sasha Skenderija. Skenderija and Browne held a reading at The Bookery II, Ithaca, NY, on Feb. 14, 2009. (Photo taken by Theresa Alt, Ithaca, NY)

: Ian Wilson’s children standing in front of Tsuruga Castle, an historic landmark in their hometown of Aizuwakamatsu, Japan.

: John Beaven, with his children Alex and Emma, on top of Peña Oroel, near Jaca, Spain. August 2006.

: Crew member Jeremy Taylor’s dog (John Kerry) supporting The LINGUIST List in Ypsilanti, MI.

: Crew member Maria Moreno-Rollins’ daughter, Kayla Rollins, supporting The LINGUIST List on one of her visits to the office in Ypsilanti, MI.

: September of 2006, Mai Kuha helping present an informational, interactive display about local linguistic diversity issues at Unity in DiverCity 2006: The Many Faces of Culture, a community action project based in Muncie, Indiana.

: Oliver Stegen: In my role as linguistic consultant for minority language projects in Northern Tanzania, I have been invited to Musoma to help research the Zanaki language (among others) which was the mother tongue of Tanzania’s first president, the late Mwalimu Julius Nyerere. On February 2, 2008, I was able to visit his birthplace in the village of Butiama where there is a museum dedicated to his memory. So that’s where the two pictures (above and below) were taken.