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Student researchers from UNM’s Lobo Language Acquisition Lab, Language Documentation Lab, and Indigenous Child Language Research Center presented at this year’s Indigenous Language Institute Symposium (ILIS), held recently at Sandia Resort and Casino....

Two undergraduates in the Lobo Language Acquisition Lab at The University of New Mexico are studying linguistic bias and its effects and working to raise teachers’ awareness of it in the classroom. The LLA Lab teacher outreach team is currently...

The Lobo Language Acquisition Lab at The University of New Mexico will present Elena Nicoladis of the University of British Columbia as part of its #CelebrateBilingualismNM Speaker Series. The lab and series are supported by the W.K. Kellogg...

Protecting an endangered language is just as consequential as safeguarding animals on the verge of extinction. The Navajo language faces threats to its vitality just as imperiled animals do. Like protecting the planet, preserving a language, and the...

When traveling through Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, a request for chile on a cheeseburger will yield three different types of flavors. In the same way, a UNM graduate student is doing trailblazing research showing dialectic varieties of sign language...

In celebration of all bilingual students, Lobos are invited to a free presentation that will feature researcher Julio Torres, Friday, March 11. The presentation will be held at noon in SUB Ballroom A; students, staff and faculty can also attend...

The Lobo Language Acquisition Lab at The University of New Mexico hosts Dr. Jennifer Herbold of New Mexico School for the Deaf presenting The Importance of Bilingualism for Deaf/HH New Mexican Children as part of its #CelebrateBilingualismNM Speaker...

The Lobo Language Acquisition Lab at The University of New Mexico will present Trisha Moquino of Keres Children's Learning Center (KCLC) describing her quest to create a school that would nurture children in the Keres-speaking community. Her...

Women in STEM researchers from The University of New Mexico's Linguistics department have recently created the Lobo Language Acquisition Lab (LLA LLA), a new research lab focused on child minority language acquisition at The University of New...

University of New Mexico Associate Professor of Linguistics and Hispanic Linguistics Naomi Shin has been awarded the prestigious 2020 Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award.  “This award is a tremendous honor to me. I care so deeply about teaching...