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The Linguistics department has the following resources and special projects:
The Phonetics Laboratory, in Calhoun Hall 518, is a facility for teaching
and research in phonetics and related fields. Dr. Scott Myers is the director.
The Archibald A. Hill Linguistics Library, in Calhoun Hall 513, is a collection of over
20,000 books, journals, and articles in linguistics and related disciplines. It includes a
shelf for reserve materials for linguistic courses and photocopying facilities.
The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America is
an NSF- and NEH-funded project. The Principal Investigator is Dr. Joel Sherzer.
Dr. Anthony Woodbury is the Co-Principal Investigator.
The Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America
(CILLA) is a constituent of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
at UT. It promotes research on Latin American indigenous languages by and with speakers
of those languages and their communities. It sponsors a bienniel Conference on Indigenous
Languages of Latin America and periodic symposia. CILLA is directed by Dr. Nora England.
The Romani Archives and Documentation Center is the largest collection of
items documenting the Romani people and culture in the world.
It consists of over 25,000 books, monographs, bound articles, papers and letters, prints, transparencies, photographs, audio- and
video-recorded material,
framed and unframed prints and documents as well as many other non-media items. It is established and
maintained by Dr. Ian Hancock.
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