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The second year Navajo class wrote and put on a Navajo version of Romeo and Juliet. Congratulations to Professor Tsosie-Paddock and her class! Arizona Linguistics Circle (ALC13) group photo. The ALC13 Committee kicks off the first day of the Arizona Linguistics Circle conference, from left to right: Remo Nitschke, Kristina Mihajlović, Kerry McCullough, Roya Kabiri, Maria Alexeeva, Damián Yukio Romero Díaz, Serene Tseng, Christina Newhall. UA Iranian Linguistics Research Group. UA Linguist Amy Fountain and Coeur d’Alene Language Programs Director Audra visited the University of Montana to speak with students about collaborative research for Indigenous language communities. Linguistics departmental graduation! Masters in Native American linguistics. Linguistics departmental graduation! Lots of people graduating with the BA, MA, MS, and PHD. Masters in Native American linguistics, masters in human language technology, PhD in linguistics and linguistics plus anthropology, bachelors in linguistics! Indigenous Language Panel, Professor Jaky Troy, Dr. Lyn Riley, Dr. Chad Hamill and Dr. Aresta Tsosie-Paddock. UA students, Jeremiah Foster (undergrad), Amanda Cheromiah (Graduate PHD), Felisia Tagaban (Graduate, masters), Kiana Poncho (undergrad) and Dr. Aresta Tsosie-Paddock (lead faculty) are participating in the Indigenous Cultural and Educational Exchange in Tasmania. Stacey Oberly and Ofelia Zepeda at the AILDI 40 th anniversary symposium. NAMA students and Wilson Silva presented a panel "Celebrating 20 years of training Native Scholars in linguistics." Complex Predicate Workshop and NACIL2, April 18-21, 2019 Noam Chomsky recognized by Frontiers of Knowledge award for his contributions to the study of human language | BBVA Shiloh Drake and Natasha Warner demonstrate linguistics activities to Magellan Circle members at a Magellan reception. Congratulations to Wunetu Tarrant, NAMA student, on becoming the Bloch Fellow at the upcoming LSA Institute! The Dr. Taleghani Endowment Committee + 2019 Lecture Series Speaker + Fellowship Winner Neda Maghbouleh, 2019 Taleghani Lecture Series Speaker, delivered a talk based on her 2017 book: The Limits of Whiteness. The 2019 Dr. Taleghani Endowment Fellow, Faezeh Faezipour with Dr. Simin Karimi. Noam Chomsky gave a talk on Language Architecture and Evolution, as a Cognitive Science colloquium. Noam Chomsky gave a talk on Language Architecture and Evolution, as a Cognitive Science colloquium. Undergraduate Aivry Eastman having fun with syntactic ambiguity at Tucson Festival of Books 2019. Ofelia Zepeda and a student from her Tohono O’odham course at the UA language fair. At Tucson Festival of Books 2019, graduate student Shannon Grippando shows one way to learn that language is left-lateralized. Department head Natasha Warner and graduate student Flo Hafner at Tucson Festival of Books 2019 Graduate student Flo Hafner recording a name with Praat at Tucson Festival of Books 2019. Graduate student Donovan Pete giving Navajo lessons at Tucson Festival of Books 2019. Graduate student Angela Hughes explaining ultrasounds at Tucson Festival of Books 2019. Linguists at the American Association for the Advancement of Science: Cecile McKee (chair of the language science section), Jaycie Martin, and Mai Naji supported the language sciences booth at the association's Family Science Days festival in Washington, DC, February 16-17, 2019. The UA's demonstration on syntactic ambiguity is shown here, with Martin in the banana suit. (photo: Laura Wagner, OSU) Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA), where the project Amy Fountain worked with was awarded the 2019 Ken Hale Prize. The project name is the Coeur d’Alene Online Language Resource Center. The people in the photo are, left to right:Cheffrey Sailto, Coeur d’Alene Language ProgramsJohn Ivens, University of Arizona,Prof. Amy Fountain,Shannon Bischoff, Purdue University Fort Wayne,Audra Vincent, Coeur d’Alene Language Programs, John Lyon, CSU Fresno Michelle Clark, Coeur d’Alene Language Programs. Valeria, and Lila Gleitman at a workshop in honor of Noam's 90th birthday. The Gregory School has a new class offering this year, one where mythology discussions are part of the curriculum, everything ties back to Tolkien somehow, and where the syllabus is written in Dwarven runes. The class is called “Fantasy Literature and Creative Writing,” and it’s a chance for students to exercise creativity and critical thinking on a whole new level. https://www.gregoryschool.org/events/item/511-fantasy-literature-and-creative-wr… Stanley Donahoo, doctoral candidate in Linguistics (Cognitive Science GIDP minor) recently presented at the fourth International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association , Donahoo’s presentation, entitled “Experimental evidence for defining the semantic representation of expressive content” spoke to effects induced when comprehending swear words. Based on the merits of the submitted abstract, Donahoo was selected for a Graduate Student Travel Award by the scientific committee of the conference. Wilson Silva, Megan Harvey and Robert Henderson at the Sound System of Latin America 3 Conference at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Thank you to the professors and graduate students that presented at the Sonoran Science Academy during an outreach school visit. Committee members of the Arizona Linguistics Circle Conference (ALC12) Outreach committee member Donovan Pete speaks to students during the Sonoran Science Academy school visit. Professor Sandiway Fong presented at the Sonoran Science Academey during one of the school vistis for outreach. Stanley Donahoo, doctoral candidate in Linguistics (Cognitive Science GIDP minor) presented at the 3 rd Infant Studies on Language Development in Europ...