Ayla Mora and Joshua Lor named CAH Dean’s Medalist
Ayla Mora, M.A. in Communication and Joshua Lor, B.A. in Linguistics, were named the 2025 College of Arts and Humanities Dean’s Medalists
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Secondary school students test logic skills in national linguistics competition
The competition involved linguistic puzzles and computational problems that test students’ logic and pattern recognition.
Read MoreNew Faces: Juan Berríos
The College of Arts and Humanities is excited to welcome Dr. Juan Berríos to the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literature.
Read MoreInternational linguistics conference welcomes speakers from 20 countries
onference on Linguistics (WECOL) Saturday and Sunday Nov. 13-14, virtually on Zoom. Registration is free and open to the public. The conference will feature speakers from six continents and 20 countries.
Read MoreStudent of Distinction: Jeanette Yeboah-Amoako
“After just one day of volunteering in a dual language classroom at [an] elementary school, an interest in teaching that up until then had been latent, suddenly woke up and exclaimed, ‘rise and shine!'” ~ Jeanette Yeboah-Amoako
Read MoreStudent of Distinction: Dymond Lowe
“I will first apply this degree as the foundation for seeking a master’s degree in speech language pathology where I will assist individuals who have undergone traumatic speech hindering experiences.” ~ Dymond Lowe
Read MoreNew language Hub offers community language services, student teaching opportunities
As Dr. Jaydene Elvin, assistant professor of linguistics, and Cheryl Chan, director of the American English Institute, worked on a public event to launch their Hub for Language Teaching and Learning, the COVID-19 virus suddenly shut everything down. However, the two quickly pivoted and, within weeks, developed the course, “Functional Spanish for EMRs,” to help the front lines of the pandemic.
Read MoreLaura Hendricksen wins CAH Outstanding Thesis Award for work on Hidatsa language
Hendricksen won the 2020 College of Arts and Humanities Outstanding Thesis Award for “Demonstratives and Determiner-phrase Structure in Hidatsa Narrative Discourse: A Morphological, Syntactic, and Semantic Analysis.”
Read MoreSpeech recognition technology featured at Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL)
As companies seek to have faster, better responses in their artificial intelligence (AI) products and customer service, linguists become critical in analyzing and understanding people’s particular speeches and words. With thousands of unique languages in the world, linguistics provides stronger understanding and solutions for things like speech recognition, speech synthesis, automatic translation and machine understanding.
Read MoreNolan Trupp, Student of Distinction
With a childhood ambition of becoming a teacher, Nolan Trupp knew he wanted to change people’s lives, but didn’t quite know what he wanted to teach until he took an American Sign Language class at Fresno State. He fell in love with the language and the culture knew he had found his way to change the world.
Read MoreTrevor Driscoll, Student of Distinction
In high school, Trevor Driscoll found the study of foreign language fascinating. While pursuing his English as a foreign language degree at Chico State he took a few linguistic courses which invigorated a passion for the structure of language. After transferring to Fresno State he received his B.A. in Linguistics with an emphasis in teaching ESL and is now regarded as the top student his the master’s program.
Read MoreDrama-focused program unites future ESL teachers with international high school students
The innovative after-school program allows teachers to implement creative ways of teaching English through a drama-based context. This 2018 Fall semester, the linguistics department set into motion a brand new program that partners Fresno State’s future Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) teachers with English as a Second Language (ESL) international students at San […]
Read MoreLinguistics receives StarTalk grant to teach Chinese to school children
A StarTalk grant will allow the Linguistics Department to teach Chinese to 40 area school students this summer through a free summer camp. The Department of Linguistics at Fresno State applied for and received a StarTalk grant, a program funded by the National Security Agency and administered by the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland. StarTalk aims to increase the number of U.S. citizens learning, speaking and teaching critical need languages, according to the website.
Read MoreAlumni News: Dean’s medalist becomes a linguistics professor across the globe
Dr. Jason Brown, a Fresno State alum, was awarded the graduate dean’s medal in 2002 while earning his master’s degree in linguistics. Now he is a professor at the University of Auckland and the head of the Linguistics Society of New Zealand.
Read MoreHmong Voices Series features iconic singer Tou Ly Vangkhue
This year’s Hmong Voices Series here at Fresno State will feature Tou Ly Vangkhue from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 2 in North Gym 118.
Read MoreThis month in the Arts and Humanities — a December review
Wrapping up fall 2017, we look back on the final month of this semester. Here are the top five stories from December.
Read MoreLinguistics Department research helps preserve endangered languages
Faculty and students in the Department of Linguistics are involved in crucial research and work to preserve endangered native languages.
Read MoreHmong American author Moua shares her bride price story
Pioneering author and editor Mai Neng Moua will read from her new nonfiction book “The Bride Price: A Hmong Wedding Story” at 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 17, at Fresno State. The evening, hosted by the Hmong American Writers’ Circle and the Fresno State Hmong minor option, will feature a reading by the author and a Q&A session moderated by Dr. Kao-ly Yang, followed by a reception and book signing. The event is free and open to the public.
Read MoreNEW FACES: Linguistics welcomes Dr. Jaydene Elvin
Dr. Jaydene Elvin joins the Department of Linguistics as an assistant professor, coming to Fresno State from Western Sydney University in Sydney, Australia.
Read MoreRediscover Tokyo: 2020 Olympics
Akira Ichioka, the Consulate-General of Japan in San Francisco, will give a presentation on Tokyo from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 29, in the University Business Center at Fresno State, PB 191. A reception will follow the presentation.
Read MoreResearch studies across campus apply to real-world issues
From preserving indigenous languages in the College of Arts and Humanities, to drone research in the Lyles College of Engineering, to air pollution research in the College of Health and Human Services, Fresno State faculty and students are tackling some of the region’s most pressing issues and developing new ideas and solutions every day. For students, this focus on applied research offers opportunities to take classroom learning out into the field and gain valuable experience that will help provide solutions for the region or boost job skills needed after graduation.
Read MoreThis month in the Arts and Humanities
Even though it’s summer, we’re still celebrating huge stories of achievement and success this month in the College of Arts and Humanities. From our students to our faculty and alums, here are some top stories from the month of June. Fresno State alum wins on Jeopardy! Peter Guekguezian thrilled audiences of the popular trivia game […]
Read MoreNew forensic linguistics textbook is the first of its kind
Gerald R. McMenamin, a professor emeritus from the Department of Linguistics at Fresno State, has written a course book that is the first of its kind. “Introducción a la Lingüística Forense” is a textbook for college courses in forensic linguistics – the application of linguistic concepts, methods and insights to the forensic context of law, […]
Read MoreFresno State alum wins on Jeopardy!
~ By Lisa Maria Boyles, communications specialist for the College of Arts and Humanities UPDATE, June 22, 2017: Peter Guekguezian’s impressive winning streak on Jeopardy! came to an end last night. But he left with $46,800 in winnings for his four days on the popular ABC game show. Guekguezian, 30, earned his master’s degree in […]
Read MoreLinguistics team heads to Montana
From left: Diamond Henderson, John Simonian, Professors Chris Golston and John Boyle, Deanna Davis, Trevor Driscoll headed out to Montana last week to do some native language preservation field work at the Crow Summer Institute in Little Big Horn. We will have a full story when they return in three weeks.
Read MoreLinguistics students rise to Bold Ideas challenge
~ By Lisa Maria Boyles, communications specialist for the College of Arts and Humanities As part of President Joseph I. Castro’s “Bold Ideas Challenge Project,” Fresno State dedicated funds to support the Touch the Community Competition, a community service competition engaging student teams that are addressing significant community challenges. Across the University, eight teams – […]
Read MoreHmong Language Association offers workshop
The Hmong Language Association will offer a one-day workshop – “Sharing Experiences of Teaching and Knowledge of the Hmong Language and Culture.” The free workshop will take place from 9:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 4, in McLane Room 161. “We wish to bring more knowledge and skills in the teaching of Hmong language, culture, literature, […]
Read MoreLinguistics Colloquium Feb. 23
Miguel Oliveira Jr. (Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil) and W. Tecumseh Fitch (University of Vienna, Austria) will discuss “Visual Pattern Perception in Hunter-Gatherers, Illiterates and Undergraduates” on Thursday, Feb. 23, in the next presentation of the Linguistics Department colloquium. Artificial grammar learning has been extensively used to explore the pattern-perception abilities of animals and both […]
Read MoreHelping Revitalize Endangered Native Languages
Pictured above: Brian Moran, right, with Martha Birdbear, one of the Hidatsa speakers in North Dakota. UPDATE, Aug. 20, 2016: From KVPR’s “Valley Edition”: Linguistics professors and students at Fresno State are hard at work on a mammoth task – saving the language of the Chukchansi tribe of Mono Indians. One thing makes their task especially […]
Read MoreMore than 100 students enroll in new Hmong minor
~ By Lisa Maria Boyles For the first time, students at Fresno State can earn a minor in Hmong language studies through the Linguistics Department in the College of Arts and Humanities. Over 100 students are enrolled in Hmong minor courses for fall 2016. Fresno has the second-largest Hmong population in the United States. More […]
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