Linguistics Club
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UVM Linguistics Club is an organization that aims to create a comfortable environment to help students from any academic background explore their interests in the field of linguistics! Check for meeting locations/times, topics, and to be added to our email list. Have questions? Contact Steph Bronfman (email)
*Caption: The Linguistics Club donated this chair to Brennans Pub in 2019, featuring the (un)official mascot of Linguistics: a wug! This cute little creature was a task in the first child language acquisition studies (The Wug Test), showing that children can subconsciously apply language-specific rules. Adults do it too: we would say more than one “wug” are “wugZ”, not “wugS”.
Field Experiences
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Members of the UVM Linguistics Club visited the Linguistic Society of America 2019 Annual Meeting in New York City. UVM Linguistics Director, Julie Roberts, presented research on the Vermont dialect: "Is there anything left of the traditional Vermont dialect? A study of Vermont’s last frontier." Students had a chance to attend many lectures presented by linguistics scholars from around the globe.