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National linguistics society honors UH Mānoa professor with Early Career Award

December 14, 2018

UH Mānoa Associate Professor Andrea Berez-Kroeker has received the Linguistic Society of America 2019 Early Career Award.

Language meets technology at international conference

October 25, 2018

The 6th Annual International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, Connecting Communities, Languages and Technology will be held February 28–March 3, 2019.

UH project designed to foster research collaboration across disciplines

September 28, 2018

The UH Manoa Biocultural Initiative of the Pacific is part of a $500,000 multi-university project that will explore how to make interdisciplinary research more effective and impactful.

UH Mānoa professor named co-editor of prestigious linguistics journal

August 30, 2018

Professor Christina Higgins will serve as co-editor of Applied Linguistics, a prestigious peer-reviewed academic journal published by Oxford University Press.

Endangered languages research focus of UH Mānoa and Japan Institute collaboration

April 6, 2018

The UH Mānoa College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature and Japan’s National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics have entered into a collaboration that expands endangered language research endeavors.

Linguistics professor Bob Blust honored with lifetime achievement award

May 31, 2017

Blust is recognized for his contributions to the understanding of human language, and the Austronesian language family.

Spoken Hawaiian language digital repository awarded grants

April 17, 2017

The project, entitled “Building a Hawaiian Spoken Language Repository,” will create a digital corpus of recordings and transcripts of Native Hawaiian language.