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By Dani Rae Wascher and Anna Padilla
June 22, 2025
When Hanmin Kim joined a campus international food festival as part of the Korean team, he had no idea the event would spark a movement. His homemade gimbap—a Korean seaweed rice roll—quickly stole the show, drawing crowds and calls for more. Just months...
August 07, 2024
The University of New Mexico Department of Linguistics recently received a $494,659 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for their project titled, “Addressee effects in demonstrative systems across bilingual communities.” This three-year project,...
By Savannah Peat
October 20, 2023
Me-muh-ry or mem-ry (memory), fa-muh-ly or fam-ly (family), ce-luh-ry or cel-ry (celery), and so on – there are different ways to pronounce words. Across languages, linguists spend a lot of time figuring out what it is about the way that we use...
By Savannah Peat
August 31, 2023
Whether it’s another language, how you pronounce pecan, or using the word ‘y’all’ instead of ‘you guys’, where you live has an impact on how you speak.
That’s a cause and effect we’ve only scratched the surface of, according to new research from...