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Read more about the article Understanding the Language of Change Through Linguistics
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Understanding the Language of Change Through Linguistics

May 26, 2020

Suzanne Evans Wagner isn’t telling people how to talk. She’s here to say that people have options and reasons for talking the way they do. An Associate Professor of Linguistics in MSU’s…

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Graduate Learns More About Ancestral Home While Earning Japanese Degree

May 19, 2020

Growing up in the United States, Rika Wakai enjoyed learning about Japan, her ancestral home and the country from which her parents migrated to the United States before she was…

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Read more about the article Linguistics Education Helps Lay Good Foundation for Sales Career
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Linguistics Education Helps Lay Good Foundation for Sales Career

May 14, 2020

Jesstina McFarland graduated this month with a B.A. in Linguistics, a minor in Sales Leadership, and a full-time job waiting for her in August.  Last summer, she interned with Thomson…

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Read more about the article Applying Computer Analytics to Poetic Culture
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Applying Computer Analytics to Poetic Culture

April 14, 2020

Sean Pue focuses on strengthening connections between data science and the humanities. Lately, the College of Arts & Letters researcher has been using digital technologies to interpret and annotate the poetics of Indian literature circulated online through texts, manuscripts, sound, and video.

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Read more about the article Yen-Hwei Lin Appointed Chair of LingLang Department
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Yen-Hwei Lin Appointed Chair of LingLang Department

April 9, 2020

After more than a year serving as Acting Interim Chair and then Interim Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages, Yen-Hwei Lin has been appointed…

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Read more about the article Researching the Effectiveness of Language Learning Apps
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Researching the Effectiveness of Language Learning Apps

April 7, 2020

Shawn Loewen became enamored with languages at age 13 when his parents hired a private tutor to teach him Spanish. Despite his passion for being multilingual, he knew he couldn’t make…

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Read more about the article LAE Podcast Hosts Professor Shawn Loewen
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LAE Podcast Hosts Professor Shawn Loewen

March 20, 2020

Episode four of the Liberal Arts Endeavor Podcast is out! Our host, Dean Christopher P. Long, met with Shawn Loewen, Director of the Second Language Studies program, to talk about his work surrounding language acquisition.Loewen, who is…

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Read more about the article Graduate Student Wins First Place at Graduate Academic Conference
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Graduate Student Wins First Place at Graduate Academic Conference

March 20, 2020

German Studies graduate student Amelia Stieren received first place at the annual Graduate Academic Conference for her presentation, titled “To Translate a Life: Understanding the Holocaust Through Autobiographical Storytelling,” which…

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Read more about the article LAE Podcast Hosts Associate Professor of Linguistics Paula Winke
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LAE Podcast Hosts Associate Professor of Linguistics Paula Winke

February 10, 2020

Episode two of the Liberal Arts Endeavor Podcast is out! Our host, Dean Christopher P. Long, spoke with Associate Professor of Linguistics Paula Winke in her Wells Hall office about foreign and second language…

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Read more about the article German Professor Wins 2019 Checkpoint Charlie Foundation Award
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German Professor Wins 2019 Checkpoint Charlie Foundation Award

December 26, 2019

Professor of German Thomas Lovik, who recently retired from MSU's Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages, is the 2019 recipient of the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation Post-Secondary Teacher Award. He…

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