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Academic Year 2009-2010

As part of his 2009 fieldwork in Taiwan, Dr. Jerold A. Edmondson has been using transnasal laryngoscopy to investigate the glottal states of Taiwanese speakers when they produce voiced plosives. We've posted a short video.
Dr. David J. Silva, Professor of Linguistics and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, is one of nine UT Arlington faculty members to be selected as an inaugural recipient of the UT System Board of Regents' Outstanding Teaching Awards. The awards honor "exceptional faculty who care about their educational mission."
Dr. Laurel Smith Stvan has been selected as a recipient of the Alicia Wilkerson Smotherman Faculty Award, in recognition of research expertise and teaching abilities that have inspired students to create work of exceptional merit, in conjunction with her supervision of Katie Welch's dissertation on the acquisition Spanish pragmatic softeners.
"The Kháng Language of Vietnam in Comparison to Ksingmul (Xinh-mun)" by Dr. Jerold A. Edmondson will be appearing in A Mosaic of Languages and Cultures: Studies in Celebration of the Academic Career of Karl J. Franklin, from SIL.
Dr. Cynthia Kilpatrick is presenting "How exceptional are exceptional forms? Perception of hiatus in Spanish" (with co-author Daniel Scarpace of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America.
Also at the 2010 LSA Annual Meeting, Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald is delivering a paper entitled "Developing Language Empowerment Projects with Diverse Communities" as part of an invited panel on service-learning sponsored by the American Dialect Society. The panel session is titled "Cultivating Socially Minded Linguists: Service Learning and Engaged Scholarship in Linguistics and Education."
A paper by Dr. Jerold A. Edmondson, Dr. David J. Silva, and Mary S. Willis (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) entitled "The Impact of Anterior Dental Extraction and Restoration on the Articulation of Affricates by Dinka Refugees in Nebraska" has been accepted to the journal Anthropological Linguistics.
Dr. Laurel Smith Stvan is presenting "Where Are They Bare? The Frequency and Distribution of Bare Nouns in American English" at the American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL 2009), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Oct. 10, 2009.
"Correspondences between Articulation and Acoustics for the Feature [ATR]: The Case of Two Tibeto-Burman Languages and Two African Languages" by Dr. Jerold A. Edmondson is appearing in 2009 in Frontiers in Phonetics and Speech Science, from Commercial Press (Beijing).
Dr. Laurel Smith Stvan has a review appearing in September of the book, Corpora for University Language Teachers, by Carol Taylor Torsello, Katherine Ackerley, & Erik Castello (eds) (2008) in TESL-EJ.
Dr. Jerold A. Edmondson is presenting at the 4th International Conference on Austro-Asiatic Linguistics in Bangkok Oct 29-30, 2009 a paper entitled, "The North Bahnaric Clade: A comparison of phylogenetic techniques" (with kenneth J. Gregerson and Paul Sidwell).
Dr. Laurel Smith Stvan has published a review of Pragmatics: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, by Louise Cummings (2005), for the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (http://www.cognitivelinguistics.org/Reviews/cummings).
From July 2009 to January 2010, Dr. Jerold A. Edmondson is on a sabbatical from his teaching duties at UT Arlington while he conducts research at the Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin Chu Taiwan. During his time in Taiwan, Dr. Edmondson plans to use video imaging with transnasal laryngoscopy to investigate the lower throat sounds in some of Taiwan's endangered Austronesian languages. He also has plans for other fieldwork and research projects.

Academic Year 2008-2009

Dr. Eunjin Park has been named a "Phi Kappa Phi Recognized Professor" by Reem Soliman, (MA TESOL student). The members of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi were asked to provide "the name of a professor who had made the most important, lasting contribution to their own intellectual and academic development."
Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald is presenting "Finding and using legacy/archival materials for community projects" at the 2nd Oklahoma Workshop on Native American Languages (April 18), and she is delivering a paper "Proliferating prosodies in Tohono O'odham reduplication(s)" at the 17th Manchester Phonology Meeting (May 28-30).
In July 2009 Dr. Laurel Stvan presents "Learning English Bare Singulars: Corpus Approaches for the L2 Classroom" at the 5th Corpus Linguistics Conference at the University of Liverpool.
On March 14, Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald presented at the 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC) at the University of Hawai'i. Her paper was titled, "Pathways for Accessing Legacy Materials in Tohono O'odham" (abstract here).
Dr. Laurel Stvan has received an Honorable Mention this year for UT Arlington's Outstanding Academic Advisor Award. She's been a nominee for two consecutive years prior, as well.
The Routledge Language Family Series has published The Tai-Kadai Languages (2008), edited by Anthony V. N. Diller, Dr. Jerold A. Edmondson, and Luo Yongxian. Within the collection, Dr. Edmondson authored chapter 5 "Shan and other Northern Tier Southeast Tai languages of Myanmar and China: Themes and Variations," chapter 23 "Kra or Kadai Languages," and chapter 23 (co-authored with Tongyin Yang) "Kam."
On Friday, November 14, Dr. David Silva was given the Excellence in Board Leadership Award as part of the 2008 Awards of Excellence, presented by the Center for Nonprofit Management. (Dr. Silva and other award winners with listed in the Dallas Morning News.)
In mid-October, Dr. Jerold A. Edmondson was in Taiwan, where he presented "Hybrid Alphabets and Legalized Letters: Case studies from Asia" as the plenary address at the 2008 International Conference on Taiwanese Literature, National Cheng Kang University, Tainan, Taiwan. While there, Dr. Edmondson also presented "Sounds of the Throat and their functioning: laryngscopic case studies" at the Linguistic Colloquium of National Tsing Hua University, Hsin Chu, Taiwan.
On October 10 Dr. David Silva gave a talk entitled "Communities Divided, Communities Connected: How Emigration Creates New Ways of Speaking" as part of UT Arlington's OneBook Conversations series.
Two articles on service learning by our Chair, Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald, are scheduled to appear: "Developing a Service-Learning Curriculum for Linguistics" in Language and Linguistics Compass, and "Language and Community Using Service-Learning to Reconfigure the Multicultural Classroom" in Language & Education.
Dr. Laurel Smith Stvan has two articles and a book review appearing this year:"Semantic Incorporation as an Account for Some Bare Singular Count Noun Uses in English" in the journal Lingua; "'Health Literacy': A Single Meaning or Three Senses Conflated?" in The Language of Health Care: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language and Health Care (IULMA: University of Alicante, Spain); and "Review of Advice Online: Advice-giving in an American Internet Health Column by Miriam A. Locher (2006)," in the journal Language in Society (37.5: 765).
Korean as a Heritage Language, a special issue of Heritage Language Journal is publishing Dr. Eunjin Park's "Intergenerational Transmission of Morality in Korean American Families."
Dr. Jerold A. Edmondson's "The Kháng language of Vietnam in comparison to Ksingmul (Xinh-mun)" is appearing in 2009 in Festschift for Dr. Karl Franklin (ed. by Kenneth McElhanon), Pacific Linguistics Series: Canberra. Also appearing this year is Dr. Edmondson's "Correspondences between articulation and acoustics for the feature [ATR]: the case of two Tibeto-Burman languages and two African languages" in Festschift for Prof. Wu Zongji, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute for Phonetics (ed. by Gunnar Fant, Hiroya Fujisaki, and Shen Jiaxuan), The Commercial Press: Beijing (title not yet decided).
Dr. Mark Ouellette has two articles in press: "Weaving Strands of Writer Identity: Self-as-Author and the NNES 'Plagiarist'" in the Journal of Second Language Writing, and "'Benefit of the Doubt': Negotiating Discourses on Plagiarism" in Teacher and Teacher Education.
"The Persistence of Stereotyped Dialect Features among Portuguese-American Immigrants from São Miguel, Azores," by Dr. David Silva, has been accepted to appear in the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics.
Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald was invited to write a chapter ("Contemporary Storytelling in Tohono O'odham," co-authored with Phillip Miguel of the Tohono O'odham Nation) for the book Inside Dazzling Mountains: Contemporary Translations of Southwest Native Verbal Arts, ed. by David Kozak, scheduled for publication later this year by University of Nebraska Press.
Dr. Jerold A. Edmondson and Dr. John Esling (University of Victoria) are presenting their co-authored "Voice Quality" on November 6, 2008, in a workshop entitled Towards Best Practices in Sociophonetics, part of NWAV 37, Rice University and University of Texas at San Antonio.

Academic Year 2007-2008

Dr. Jerold A. Edmondson has been selected as a recipient of the Alicia Wilkerson Smotherman Faculty Award, in recognition of research expertise and teaching abilities that have inspired students to create work of exceptional merit. (The Shorthorn's article on the award is here.)
Dr. Mark Ouellette presented "Making TIME Work for You: Changing Perspective on College Study Skills" for Invited Talks at Weingarten Learning Resources Center, University of Pennsylvania on July 1, 2008.
Dr. Eunjin Park presented the paper "Korean-American families' use of the evidential verb-suffix – tay: Keeping distance from knowledge" at the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Washington D.C., held March 29 - April 1, 2008.
In April, Dr. Laurel Smith Stvan, Dr. David Silva and alumna Dr. Sarah Fauzi gave a panel presentation in Fort Worth on "Linguistic Aspects of Cross-Cultural Health Discussions" for the Texas Association of Healthcare Interpreters and Translators.
Dr. Laurel Smith Stvan presented "Fat and Health Literacy: Two Revealing Terms in CADOH (Corpus of American Discourses on Health)," at the American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL 2008), Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, March 15, 2008.
The International Journal of the Sociology of Language published Dr. David Silva's "Missionary Contributions toward the Revaluation of Han’geul in Late 19th Century Korea."
Two articles by Dr. Donald A. Burquest (co-authored with E. Lou Hohulin) have been published: "Morphophonology in Tuwali Ifugao" in the Philippine Journal of Linguistics 38(1), and "Verbal Morphology, Cross-referencing and NP Positioning in Tuwali Ifugao" in Piakandatu ami Dr. Howard P. McKaughan, edited by Loren Billings and Nelleke Goudswaard (published by the Linguistic Society of Philippines and SIL Philippines, 2007).

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Read about other great faculty research in our department in this interview with Dr. David Silva in UT Arlington's Research Magazine.