Undergrad Ling Society @ UW
Welcome to ULS! We’re a commmunity for everyone interested in language and linguistics here at UW. We meet every Thursday at 6pm in SAV 168.
Socials
Past Exrtacurriculars
- Language Learning Month of December
- Book Club
- Linguistics Craft Hour
- Language Exchange
- Hot Choclate Night/Pizza Party/Picnic in the Quad
- Dawg Daze Events- Trivia
- Linguistics Scavenger Hunt
Recurring Topics
- Linguistics Deparment Intro!
- Hot Takes!
- Game Night
- End of Quarter Party!
Previous Topics
2025-2026
- Language Policy 2- Argentine Sign Language
- Language Policy 1- Quechua in Peru
- PIE, case, gender, etmology and more!
- Valency Changing
- Spanish Coronal Fricatives
- Pseudolinguistics (false cognates, backronyms, and eggcorns!)
- Verlan, Largonji, and Mississippi Gulf Coast French ft. French Language Association
- Political Codeswitching, Swearing, and Insults
- History of the Latin Alphabet
- Semiotics
- Rioplatense Sociophonetics
- Abugidas
- Linguistics in Tech - Topcis in Computational Linguistics
- Second Language Acquisition
- Pragmatics and Speech Acts
- Spooky Phonetics
2024-2025
- Duolingo, and Language Learning Apps
- Language and Gender
- Spanish Dialectology
- Jargon
- Hawai’i Creole
- Language Policy
- Djirbal and Australian Indegeonous Languages
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Loan Words
- English Around the World
- Pigin and Creole Languages - Hawai’i Creole
- Morphology of Turkic Languages
- Dialects in Spanish
- L2 Acquisition
- Writing Systems of East Asia and South Asia
- Inventing Language(s)
2023-2024
- Sign Languages
- Plurality and Tiwa, feat Dr. Virginia Dawson
- ChatGPT
- Adult Language Acquistion (L2)
- What Can I do with a Linguistics Degree?
- Word Vectors
- Writing Systems/Orthography
- Universal Grammar
- Linguistic Anthropology
- Language Revitalization in WAshington State
- Language Myths
2022-2023
- Linguistic Typology
- Language Acquistion
- Sociolinguistics
- Historical Linguistics
- Pycholinguistics
- 3/1: Slides
- 2/15: Officer intros and topic pitches