New paper co-authored by Jon Brennan published in the Annual Review of Linguistics
 A new paper co-authored by Jonathan Brennan was published in the Annual Review of Linguistics in January 2022. The paper, Neuro-computational models of language processing, reviews the state-of-the-art in how computational models can be used to understand the brain bases of language.
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Robin Queen appointed Chair of Department of Communication and Media
 Robin Queen will step in as the Chair of the U-M Department of Communication and Media for a two-year term. She is excited about the many opportunities there are to explore mutual interests (scholarly, teaching and outreach) between communication studies and linguistics. Linguistics remains her home department throughout this period.
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Natasha Abner presents at Princeton Symposium on Syntactic Theory
 Natasha Abner presented "A manual for encoding events” at the Princeton Symposium on Syntactic Theory, held April 1-2. Read the abstract.
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Workshop: Professions Outside of Academia
A workshop focusing on professions outside of academia was held virtually on Tuesday, April 5. We are very grateful to our three panel participants, Linguistics alumni Emily Sabo, Marcus Berger, and Sagan Blue. Emily Sabo works as a content creator for Mango Languages and as a producer for the docuseries We Are What We Speak. Marcus Berger works for the U.S. Census Bureau, and Sagan Blue works for Amazon. Read their bios. Shown in the Zoom photo are Sagan Blue (top left), Marcus Berger (top right), Emily Sabo (bottom left), and PhD student Danuta Allen who served as moderator for the panel.
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Sophie Eakins Receives Rackham Travel Grant
 Sophia Eakins received a Rackham Travel Grant to attend the 2022 Graduate Student Conference held at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in March. Her presentation was titled "Switching between or transitioning beyond named languages? Exploring Cabo Verdean bilinguals in Boston."
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PhD Student Profile
Jian Zhu
Growing up in Shaoguan—a city of 2.8 million people in south China—Linguistics PhD student Jian Zhu was exposed to multiple languages, including Mandarin, Cantonese, and Hakka (a Chinese dialect). “I grew up speaking all of them,” says Jian. Read Jian's profile.
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Joy Peltie
Wil Gonzales
catalyze innovative research and scholarship efforts that will advance knowledge and understanding around complex societal racial inequalities that can inform actions to achieve equity and justice. These faculty grants were developed in partnership with the 
