Congratulations to graduate student Sara Castró Cantú, who has been awarded the Elizabeth Pine Dayton Award, which is a travel award intended to enable graduate students pursuing topics in sociolinguistics to attend the Linguistics Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting. Sara's research examines the sociolinguistics of Spanish as a heritage language, and specifically, the factors that motivate the intergenerational transmission of Spanish. Congratulations, Sara!
Congratulations to graduate student Jaylene Canales, who has been awarded the Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics Committee (CEDL) Travel Grant to attend the upcoming 2025 Linguistics Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting. These travel grants are supported by the Dennis R. and Carol Guagliardo Preston Fund for Diversity in Linguistics and administered by CEDL. Congratulations, Jaylene!
Congratulations to Professor Ander Beristain (Ph.D., Illinois, 2022), has been awarded the Morris Halle Memorial Award for Faculty Excellence in Phonology. First established in 2021, the Morris Halle Award for Faculty Excellence in Phonology was designed to award outstanding scholarship in phonology by an early career faculty member in linguistics. The Halle Award and Fromkin Prize Committee unanimously decided to recognize Ander Beristain as the new recipient of the Morris Halle Memorial Award for Faculty Excellence in Phonology Award in 2025. Ander’s work addresses second and heritage language phonology and has found that bilingual speakers possess two physiological segment-timing systems.