Grad student helps organize international linguistics conference at Fresno State

November 14, 2024.Reading time 4 minutes.

Keira Colleluori in front of fall foliage.

At the center of coordinating this event is Keira Colleluori, a graduate linguistics student who has worked tirelessly to ensure the conference runs smoothly.

International linguistics conference welcomes speakers from 20 countries

November 8, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

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.

7 Questions with Chair of the Linguistics Department Dr. Sean Fulop

October 27, 2021.Reading time 6 minutes.

Sean Fulop poses with a grey background.

The Linguistics Department at Fresno State studies the human capacity for language. As a defining characteristic of the human experience, without language, civilization, culture, scientific and technological development would not be possible.

Speech recognition technology featured at Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL)

October 31, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

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.