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MSU Linguist Receives NSF Grant for Cutting-Edge Research in Word Pattern Recognition

December 19, 2022

Most people can recognize what words are real and which ones aren’t in the languages they know. However, sometimes a nonsense word might sneak through, especially when the word sounds and looks a lot like a legitimate one. Karthik Durvasula, Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at Michigan State University, is delving further into “wordlikeness judgments”…

Faculty / News

Faculty Promotions for 2022

December 1, 2022

The College of Arts & Letters is pleased to recognize the faculty members who recently were promoted to full professor, associate professor, or associate professor-fixed term.

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College of Arts & Letters Students Earn First-Place Awards at UURAF

April 22, 2022

Three College of Arts & Letters students earned first-place awards for their presentations at Michigan State University’s 24th Annual University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF). The students are now among the other first-place winners who will be considered for the grand prize, which will be announced in June.  This year's UURAF was held at the Breslin Student Events Center.…

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion / Faculty / News / Student

Study Explores Gender Bias in Linguistics, Expands to Multiple Universities

November 10, 2021

In 2017, Karthik Durvasula, Assistant Professor in MSU’s Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures, saw an argument on social media about a linguistics conference where there were only male plenary speakers.

Faculty / News / Programs / Scholarship

MSU Linguistics Ascends Rankings as a Solid Choice for Scholarship

June 22, 2021

Michigan State University’s Linguistics program is ranked among the top places in the field for study, research, and employment by QS (Quacquarelli Symonds), a leading provider of services, analytics, and insight to the global higher education sector. The Linguistics program offers B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees and two minors. It is housed inside the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures (formerly the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages), which is an interdisciplinary department, with 66 faculty and about 1,200 students, that focuses…

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Faculty / News / Staff

College Welcomes New Faculty and Staff Members

August 22, 2019

This year, the College of Arts & Letters welcomes 28 new faculty and staff members. They include the following: Sara Allison Sara Allison, Administrative Business Professional/Supervisor, Department of English, comes to the College from MSU's College of Social Science Dean’s Office, where she was an Administrative Business Professional. Allison has experience reviewing and approving grant proposals and budgets; serving as a liaison…

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Enhancing Graduate Education Through Cross College Workshop

May 17, 2018

All this week, a cross-college workshop, R Statistics Bootcamp, was offered at Michigan State University, giving graduate students and researchers the opportunity to learn more about the statistical methods using the programming language R. This five-day practical course provided participants with important transferable programming and statistical skills with a wide range of applications within and beyond academia. Participants learned how…

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Finding Success in Linguistics Research

April 19, 2017

Attending Michigan State University was an easy choice for Linguistics major Scott Nelson, whose parents both graduated from MSU, but determining a major wasn’t as easy until he found a home in the College of Arts & Letters and Linguistics. “I randomly discovered Linguistics, found out more, and fell in love with it sort of superficially, but when I came…