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Dr. Amanda Huensch Receives the 2026 Paul Pimsleur Award for Research in World Language Education

Dr. Amanda Huensch, together with co-authors Nicole Tracy-Ventura, Jonah Katz, and Rosamond Mitchell, received the...

Dr. Amanda Huensch Gives Plenary Talk at 17th Annual PSLLT Conference

Dr. Amanda Huensch was honored to present a plenary talk at the 17th annual...

Prof. Kanwit Gives Distinguished Alum Lecture

Prof. Matt Kanwit was awarded...

Less-Commonly-Taught Languages Center Spotlights Diversity & Cultural Education in Sixth Annual Language Coffeehouse

This year’s Language Coffeehouse was a huge success with over 1000 students participating and learning about the 30+ languages offered...

New Linguistics Faculty, Dr. Yang Janet Liu, co-organizes the fourth DISRPT Shared Task at CODI-CRAC Workshop, EMNLP 2025

Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics Dr. Yang Janet Liu co-organized the Fourth DISRPT Shared Task, held as part of the CODI...

New Linguistics Faculty, Dr. Yang Janet Liu, co-organizes the First Workshop on Bridging NLP and Public Opinion Research at COLM 2025

Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics Dr. Yang Janet Liu co-organized the First Workshop on Bridging Natural Language...

Congratulations to Sebastián Leal-Arenas!

We’re thrilled to share that Sebastián Leal-Arenas (Ph.D. Linguistics, Pitt, 2025), now Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona...

New Publication in Languages, Marta Ortega-Llebaria and Jun Nagao (2025). When Pitch Falls Short: Reinforcing Prosodic Boundaries to Signal Focus in Japanese

When pitch isn’t enough to express emphasis, Japanese speakers rely on the architecture of timing and articulation—...

PhD Student Aminu Wins Stueber Prize

Pitt Linguistics PhD student PraiseGod Aminu was awarded the Lillian B. Stueber Prize for best student paper at NWAV 52 in Miami Beach,...

Pitt Linguistics Strongly Represented at NWAV 52
Pitt Linguistics had strong representation at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (...