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Director: Tully Thibeau

tully.thibeau@umontana.edu

The University of Montana
Linguistics Program
SS 208
Missoula, MT 59812

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Telephone: (406) 243-2156
Fax: (406) 243-4981

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Contact: Dean Chris Comer
LA 136, Missoula, MT 59812
Telephone: 243-2632
Fax: 406-243-4076

Linguistics

"Actually, thinking is most mysterious, and by far the greatest light upon it that we have is thrown by the study of language." -- Benjamin Lee Whorf
  • The program offers an MA degree, an undergraduate option with an Anthropology, English or Language major, and a Certificate of Accomplishment in ESL.
  • The Linguistics Program offers an interdisciplinary education to students. The central goal in linguistics is to study, understand, and describe the details of individual languages: the sounds used by individual languages and the make-up of words, phrases and sentences. The understanding of linguistic principles is applied to a variety of fields, including language teaching, language therapy, communication, speech synthesis, and language preservation.
  • The Linguistics Program at the University of Montana is the only program that offers an MA in Linguistics in the state of Montana.

Graduate Student Ryan Denzer-King

Ryan Denzer-King

Ryan Denzer-King

Research Mentor: Mizuki Miyashita

Research Topic: Blackfoot Phonology in Optimality Theory

Ryan Denzer-King is currently focusing on an analysis of Blackfoot phonology in Optimality Theory. He is also interested in syllable structure, areal linguistics, numeral systems, neologisms, and Native American languages, especially Blackfoot, Salish languages, and Navajo. Ryan received an Outstanding Presentation Award at the 2008 Graduate Student and Faculty Research Conference at the University of Montana, and was awarded the Bertha Morton Scholarship for the 2008-2009 school year. He also received a travel award from the University of Montana Graduate Student Association to attend the 2008 Native American and Indigenous Studies conference at the University of Georgia.