Congratulations to Emeritus Professor Pam Peters on being elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities (Linguistics section) at their recent annual meeting.
Professor Peters has been an outstanding contributor to Linguistics at Macquarie and internationally for many years and her election to the Academy is well deserved.
Congratulations to Emeritus Professor Chris Candlin on being awarded the title of Academician by the Academy of Social Sciences in the UK. This is indeed a well-deserved honour. Three members nominated by BAAL have been awarded the title of Academician by the Academy of Social Sciences:
BAAL members who know their work, both in their research and their contributions to BAAL and AILA, will know that the recognition is well-deserved.
The Academy of Social Sciences is a body linked to many of the main learned societies in the UK. Besides recognising the contributions of academicians, it promotes links between these learned societies, and campaigns for a stronger voice for UK social science in policy-making. Names of other academicians can be found here: http://www.acss.org.uk/about5.htm.
Date: December 3-6, 2012
Location: Macquarie University, Sydney
Friday, October 12 (9am-5pm, Campus Hub, Level 3)
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Professor Casule's discovery, which has now been verified by a number of the world's top linguists, has excited linguistics experts around the world. An entire issue of the eminent international linguistics journal The Journal of Indo-European Studies is devoted to a discussion of his findings later this month.
To encourage the active involvement of students in the process of acknowledging and rewarding outstanding teaching, the Department of Linguistics this year introduced a system of "student-nominated learning and teaching awards".
who have received funding
from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) to undertake a
3-year longitudinal study into the relationship between language training
and settlement outcomes of newly arrived migrants from
non-English-speaking backgrounds. The project is an extension of a similar
longitudinal study undertaken at Macquarie University in 2008 and 2009.
The new phase of the project will follow participants from the first phase of the project and also follow a cohort of newly arrived migrants. The goal will be to find out how they use English as they settle in Australia, and how closely their engagement with English in the Adult Migrant English Program matches their communicative needs.
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The Linguistics Department is pleased to announce the launch of a national initiative to collect the accents of 1000 Australian English speakers. Australian English accents from adults of all ages from various locations in all states and territories will be collected to represent the regional and social diversity of Australian English. To become involved visit the AusTalk website.
Katherine Demuth and Felicity Cox were recently awarded an ARC Discovery grant entitled ‘Phonological effects on the development of inflectional morphology’. In collaboration with Senior Research Scientist Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel (MIT), they will be exploring the acoustic and articulatory mechanisms underlying children’s variable use of morphemes such as the plural and past tense markers in different linguistic contexts. The findings will contribute to a better understanding of the development of inflectional morphology both in typical and language-impaired populations.
Stephen Crain was named a Macquarie University Distinguished Professor at the 2010 Research Awards Ceremony. Stephen was honoured for “his outstanding work in the advancement of science in the study of human language and cognition.
Who recently received an Australian Learning and Teaching Council citation for “sustained commitment to empowering students to find their individual academic “voices,” and to achieving excellent outcomes for all students through relevant University committees".
We are very happy to announce and congratulate the following two Vice-Chancellor Award and Citation recipients from the Department of Linguistics:
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