The Bilinski Educational Foundation board of members recently visited the campus to meet the fellows who have been supported by their generous gifts. Here is a video of some of the students talking about the impact of the Bilinski Fellowships.
Roshan Institute Fellowship is now available
NSF grant for the 4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation
Professors Andrea Berez and Victoria Anderson receive NSF grant for the 4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation.
Amy Schafer awarded NSF grant
The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of $286,827 to University of Hawai’i for support of the project entitled “Discourse and prosody in non-native speakers’ reference resolution,” under the direction of Therese Gruter (SLS) and Amy Schafer (Linguistics).
This award is effective September 1 , 2013 and expires February 28, 2017.
Working Papers Vol. 44
- 44 (1)
Aragon, Carolina
Phonetic Realization of Medial Stop Consonants in Akuntsu
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January 2013 - 44 (2)
Joo, Kum-Jeong
Universal 20 and Word-Order Variation in Korean [PDF]
April 2013 - 44 (3)
Grama, James
The Effect of a Single Formant on Dialect Identification [PDF]
April 2013 - 44 (4)
Odango, Emerson
The Status of Subject and Object Pronominal Elements in Lukunosh Mortlockese [PDF]
April 2013
UH team uncovers old Hawai’i Sign Language
A research group based in the UH Mānoa Department of Linguistics has uncovered the existence of old Hawai’i Sign Language, a previously undocumented sign language used in the islands. For more information see the department’s press release and the official UH press release. For a visual demonstration of HSL, please see this video.
Endangered Languages Project launches
The Endangered Languages Project, a web site developed by Google and backed by the Alliance for Linguistic Diversity, launched today at www.endangeredlanguages.com. A central feature of the website is the Catalogue of Endangered Languages, compiled by University of Hawaiʿi at Mānoa linguists and the LINGUIST List at Eastern Michigan University, and sponsored by a grant from the National Science Foundation.