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MPR featured CLA Language Center Director and Associate Professor of Linguistics Amanda Dalola on an episode on learning languages as an adult.

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Charlie Boddy, Sam Clarke, Mikayla Krech, and Finnigan Lewis successfully completed their Master's degrees in Linguistics.

Amanda Dalola and Ky Win Nguyen discuss the development of and purpose behind the new two-course sequence, Vietnamese for Heritage Learners.

This new paper, featuring research by Amanda Dalola (LC Director and Linguistics faculty), takes a look at how we hear social meaning in speech, focusing on Korean aegyo.

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A new heritage language project, Multilingual Minnesota, documents the voices, languages, and cultural narratives of Minnesota’s heritage language communities.

Linguistics professor Claire Halpert is quoted in this Minnesota Star Tribune column.