2024 SECOL Student Excellence Award: José Julián Álvarez Retamales
Congratulations to the recipient of the 2024 SECOL Student Excellence Award for Best Student Paper, José Julián Álvarez Retamales! His paper “Examining Coda /r/ Variation in Puerto Rican Spanish” was unanimously selected as the winner, the scholarly achievement to be celebrated at the 2025 meeting of SECOL in Boca Raton. José is currently a PhD Candidate at the Department of Linguistics, NYU University. His work concerns identity in Latinx communities and its intersection with Blackness. Check out his website here.
Congratulations to the recipient of the SECOL Student Excellence Award 2023, Leah Nodar (a PhD Candidate, Linguistics Department, Purdue University)!!
Nodar’s paper “Pronominal Apposition, It Could Be Useful: Bringing Back an Abandoned Variable in Sociolinguistics” was unanimously selected as the winner, with a publication to follow in the Southern Journal of Linguistics.
Nominations for the SECOL Student Excellence Award 2024 are now being solicited. Send you nominations of student papers that impressed you at the SECOL 2024 meeting to Tamara Warhol, twarhol@go.olemiss.edu. Papers authored by students, whether they were single authors or first authors in collaborations, are eligible.
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The Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL) is dedicated to the advancement of the study of language in all its aspects. The Southern Journal of Linguistics (SJL) publishes book reviews and peer reviewed articles. The annual spring conference provides a venue for SECOL members to
learn about the latest scholarship on a wide variety of linguistics topics
present ideas to other scholars for feedback and support
meet linguists from across the nation
get new ideas for future research and publishing
find opportunities to participate in the administration and advocacy of linguistics
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