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By David Bell Associate Professor and Chair of Linguistics As the summer heat begins to recede, life in Gordy Hall begins to buzz again, it’s time to welcome you to the academic year 2019-20. We have had our usual comings and goings and some notable visitors, a big promotion, an […]

Dr. Scott Jarvis, Professor of Linguistics, is the Executive Director of the journal Language Learning. Language Learning is a scientific journal dedicated to the understanding of language learning broadly defined. It publishes research articles that systematically apply methods of inquiry from disciplines including psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, educational inquiry, neuroscience, ethnography, […]

After serving as Associate Editor for Language Learning for several years, Dr. Scott Jarvis, Professor of Linguistics, was elected to the journal’s Board of Directors in April 2011. Since then, he has been serving as the Associate Executive Director for the journal, and is set to become the new Executive […]

  “Learning a new language can be a challenge, as new vocabulary and grammatical rules can be hard for some people to grasp. To address this issue, several linguistics graduate students are examining how a person’s working memory capacity, which is how well a person can process and retain knowledge, […]