This May, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences plans to host three convocations: one each for its graduate students, undergraduate humanities and interdisciplinary programs students, and undergraduate social sciences students.

In 1999, Steven Weinberger, faculty member in the Department of English and director of the Linguistics Program, developed the Speech Accent Archive, an online database of accents from around the world.

Young goats learn new and distinctive bleating "accents" once they begin to socialize with other kids.

Biologists using tools developed for drawing evolutionary family trees say that they have solved a longstanding problem in archaeology: the origin of the Indo-European family of languages.

The Department of English and the Program in Linguistics welcome Dr. Jennifer Culbertson to the faculty in Linguistics. She begins her full-time position in the Fall 2012 semester.

A fascinating New York Times article on "one of America's most ambitious lexicographical projects," the publication of the 60,000-entry, multi-volume dictionary on the country's regional dialects.

The 3 October issue of The New Yorker magazine includes a piece by John Colapinto that describes how brand names are created. In it, he notes how brand-naming firm Lexicon includes linguists in its formula for success.

The Linguistics Department's Speech Accent Archive was recently featured on WAMU Radio. The database contains 1,500 samples of spoken English.