Linguistics Club
UVM Linguistics Club is an organization that aims to create a comfortable environment to help students from any academic background explore their interests in the field of linguistics! Check for meeting locations/times, topics, and to be added to our email list. Have questions? Contact Steph Bronfman (email)
*Caption: The Linguistics Club donated this chair to Brennans Pub in 2019, featuring the (un)official mascot of Linguistics: a wug! This cute little creature was a task in the first child language acquisition studies (The Wug Test), showing that children can subconsciously apply language-specific rules. Adults do it too: we would say more than one “wug” are “wugZ”, not “wugS”.
Field Experiences
Members of the UVM Linguistics Club visited the Linguistic Society of America 2019 Annual Meeting in New York City. UVM Linguistics Director, Julie Roberts, presented research on the Vermont dialect: "Is there anything left of the traditional Vermont dialect? A study of Vermont’s last frontier." Students had a chance to attend many lectures presented by linguistics scholars from around the globe.