Language meets technology at international conference
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
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
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
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
Blust is recognized for his contributions to the understanding of human language, and the Austronesian language family.
Spoken Hawaiian language digital repository awarded grants
The project, entitled “Building a Hawaiian Spoken Language Repository,” will create a digital corpus of recordings and transcripts of Native Hawaiian language.
Professor Robert A. Blust appointed Linguistics Society of America fellow
Professor Robert A. Blust of UH Mānoa’s Department of Linguistics recognized for tremendous contributions to the field of linguistics.
International conference focuses on language documentation, conservation
UH Mānoa’s College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature’s hosted the 4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation.
Endangered language researchers awarded national grants
UH Mānoa’s Andrea Berez, Eleanor Kleiber and Hiroko Sato were awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
New Hawaiʻi language discovered by UH researchers
A UH Mānoa research team identifies confirms the existence of a previously undocumented language in Hawaiʻi called Hawaiʻi Sign Language.
