LSA 2025 summer institute

#LSA2025 #LSA #linguistics

Memories of Summer in Oregon - check out the reel on Instagram!😉

www.instagram.com/reel/DNU_nSG...

When planning began, it was hard to imagine exactly how it would all come together — but thanks to this team and to all of you who attended, everything ran smoothly. We hope everyone left with insightful knowledge, lovely friendships, and unforgettable memories from Oregon 🫶🏻

We also had 25 amazing volunteers whose help made everything possible, though I can’t list them all here. Special thanks go to Linda Smith, for handling much of the administrative work, and a big shout-out to Volya Kapatsinski, Kaori Idemaru, and Spike Gildea for all the behind-the-scenes work 😎

We began organizing in the spring of 2024, and the Institute has truly been a team effort. Even though some couldn’t attend, our PhD students contributed from early on: Dakota Whisler worked on merch design and initial social media, and Nadia Clement designed the Institute poster 🤩

#LSA2025 #linguistics

Here’s our last Interview Spotlight featuring Jurriaan Wiegertjes, a PhD student in the Surrey Morphology Group at the University of Surrey! ✨
Check out what he’s working on and hear about his experience at the Institute!

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✍️ Writing Systems and their Use – Dimitrios Melts
🗣 Sociolinguistic Perception – @charlottevaughn.bsky.social & @abbyjwalker.bsky.social

It was so lovely to see great linguists at the Institute in Eugene✨ See you again!

#LSA2025 #linguistics

Hope you all made it home safe! 🤩
Saying goodbye was bittersweet, but we know this isn’t the end - we'll see again!

Here’s are the last snapshots of the Institute:
👐 The Linguistics of Sign Languages – @cocchino.bsky.social & @ryanlepic.bsky.social
💻 Computational Semantic Typology – Terry Regier

Meet today’s Interview Spotlight: Miracle Oppong Peprah ✨
She’s a PhD student at INALCO and is affiliated with CNRS in France.
Check out what she's working on and hear about her experience at the Institute!

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This event is funded by the Division of Graduate Studies at the University of Oregon.
(graduatestudies.uoregon.edu)

We had the 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) last Thursday! 😎
Thanks to all our presenters and everyone who came to support them, and a big round of applause to our winners! 👏

1st Place: Jordan (JC) Crowley
2nd Place: Miracle Oppong Peprah
3rd Place: Ming Liu

And so our course @uoregon.bsky.social has come to an end. Thanks to all our wonderful students @lsa2025uo.bsky.social It's been fun to teach #HistoricalSociolinguistics with Mark Lauersdorf #NARNiHS, and we've been lucky to have such brilliant audience. Don't forget to Use All the Data!

✨ We were glad to host Marianne Mithun (Hale Professor | UCSB) for our last forum lecture on “From Prosody toward Explanation?”

Thanks to everyone who came!

#LSA2025 #linguistics

Division of Graduate Studies | University of Oregon

This event is funded by the Division of Graduate Studies at the University of Oregon.
(graduatestudies.uoregon.edu)

#LSA2025

Today’s Interview Spotlight features Peter Nyhuis, a postdoc in the Surrey Morphology Group at the University of Surrey! ✨

Check out what he’s working on and his experience at the Institute!

Merch is on sale! 🤩
If you’ve been thinking about grabbing more, it's your last chance!

Come support our students presenting their insightful work at the 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition! 🥹

🗓️ Thursday, August 8
🕕 6–8 pm
📍 Straub 145

✨ Honorable Mentions:
· Sunyoung Park – Investigating the Discourse Processing of Korean Speech Styles by Korean-English Bilinguals

· Hongkang Wang – Only with Short Intervals Does the Vertical Advantage Emerge — A Replication of Boroditsky (2001)

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🎉 We had a wonderful poster session last Thursday!

Thanks to everyone who stopped by and checked out the amazing presentations, and a big round of applause to our winners! 👏

1st Place: Wangqian Zhou

2nd Place: Jordan (JC) Crowley

3rd Place: John Prado

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Come chat with Anna Marie Trester, a career linguist, about all the ways you can use a linguistics degree in academia and in industry ☕️

📅 Aug 6, 1–2 pm
📍 Agate 100 (1787 Agate St)

Anna Marie Trester: www.boisestate.edu/linguistics/...
Career Linguist: careerlinguist.com/dr-anna-mari...

We had a fantastic Forum Lecture with Sonia Cristofaro (Collitz Professor | Sorbonne University)! ✨

She gave an insightful talk titled “What You See Is Not What You Get: The Diachronic Making of Implicational Universals”

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Last Forum Lecture of the Institute!
Join us this Wednesday (August 6) for the talk by Marianne Mithun (Hale Professor, UCSB).

👩‍🏫 “From Prosody toward Explanation?”
🕕 Aug 6th, 6–7 PM
📍 STB 156

(and here’s a duck video that wasn't included in the first thread! 🦆🫶🏻)

🎶 Prosodic Development Across Languages – Aoju Chen
🌲 Language Typology and Grammatical Evolution – Sonia Cristofaro
🧠 Cognitive Mechanisms of Language Change – Volya Kapatsinski
🔤 The Message Shapes Phonology – Kathleen Currie Hall & Andrew Wedel

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One more week to go! 🥹 Hope you enjoy the last weekend!

🗣️ Information Structure in Interaction, Grammar, and Typology – Pavel Ozerov
🌍 Lexical Typology and Universals of Word Meaning – @thgeorgakopoulos.bsky.social & Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm
📖 Linguistics and Reading Reform – Mark Seidenberg

#LSA2025 #Linguistics #FerminMoscosodelPradoMartin

Today's Interview Spotlight features Fermín Moscoso del Prado Martín, who’s teaching "Information Theory Tools for Language Research" in both terms at the Institute!✨

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