Linguistics Program

News Briefs

Moveable Chairs 2006-7
Jack Martin has begun his work as chair of the English Department, and Ann Reed will be directing the Linguistics Program. Talbot Taylor has been awarded a Delmas Foundation Fellowship; he will be working on "Agency, Reflexivity, and the Problem of Linguistic Order" at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina for 2006-7. Anne Charity will continue her NSF fellowship, using particular features of African American Vernacular English in an investigation of teachers' attitudes towards dialectal differences.