2015 News
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Marsden Fund grants for two linguistics academics
Two academics from Victoria University’s School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies have received Marsden Fund grants, totalling $880,000, for leading edge research projects.
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Miriam Meyerhoff
Miriam Meyerhoff receives stakhanovite award from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence “Dynamics of Language”.
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Inaugural New Zealand Linguistics Olympiad winners announced
A team of secondary school students from Auckland International College and Kristin School in Auckland has won the first New Zealand Linguistics Olympiad, hosted by Victoria University of Wellington.
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Deborah Cameron, the Ian Gordon Fellow, was recently on RNZ
Deborah Cameron, Professor of Language and Communication at Oxford University, is an internationally recognised expert…
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Rt Rev Dr Penelope (Penny) Jamieson
Former linguistics lecturer the Rt Rev Dr Penelope (Penny) Jamieson honoured by Victoria as one of this year’s Distinguished Alumni
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Trade secrets
Nog, noggin and dwang might sound like terms of abuse to the uninitiated but are in fact lingo in the carpentry trade, two Victoria researchers have discovered.