The University of Oregon Department of Linguistics is excited to be hosting the 2027 Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute, in Eugene, OR, USA from June 27 to July 23, 2027.
The Institute is the largest and most prestigious summer school for linguistics in the world, and has been held since 1928. Eugene is a city of ~170,000 people, home to the University of Oregon, located at the southern end of the beautiful Willamette Valley. Within a 90-minute drive, you will find snow-capped mountains, a gorgeous coastline, wild hot springs, deserted ocean beaches, top-notch wineries, and more.
Institute Theme — The Dynamics of Language
- The dynamics of language change and its emergence from language variation
- Language evolution and the dynamics of communication
- Dynamics of the speech signal and articulatory movements
- Language learning/language acquisition
- Language processing in the mind and brain
- Statistical and information-theoretic modeling
- Neural network dynamics in humans and machines
Courses & Faculty
The Institute will also offer a full suite of introductory and methods courses, including introductions to various approaches to phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, Bayesian and frequentist statistics, computational linguistics and neural nets, electrophysiology, eyetracking and ultrasound.
At this point, the preliminary line-up (prior to selection from contributed courses) is:
Farrell Ackerman (University of California, San Diego)
Mohammed Afkir (University of California, Davis)
Adam Albright (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Ben Ambridge (University of Manchester)
Helena Aparicio (Cornell University)
Mira Ariel (Tel Aviv University)
Mark Aronoff (Stony Brook University)
Melissa Baese-Berk (University of Chicago)
Eric Baković (University of California, San Diego)
Santiago Barreda (University of California, Davis)
Maša Bešlin (Georgetown University)
Balthasar Bickel (University of Zurich)
Idan Blank (University of California, Los Angeles)
Canaan Breiss (University of Chicago)
Kevin Brown (Oregon State University)
Andrés Buxó-Lugo (University at Buffalo)
Joan Bybee (University of New Mexico)
Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (Ohio State University)
Jennifer Cole (Northwestern University)
Thiago Chacon (Brasilia University)
Andries Coetzee (University of Michigan)
Veneeta Dayal (Yale University)
Holger Diessel (University of Jena)
Robin Dodsworth (North Carolina State University)
John Duff (University of California, Los Angeles)
Shelece Easterday (University of Hawai’i, Mānoa)
Daniel Everett (Bentley University)
Evelina Fedorenko (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Adamantios Gafos (Potsdam University)
Edward (Ted) Gibson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Spike Gildea (University of Oregon)
Adele Goldberg (Princeton University)
Stefan Th. Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Jessi Grieser (University of Michigan)
Zenzi Griffin (University of Texas, Austin)
Lauren Hall-Lew (University of Edinburgh)
Zara Harmon (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Leipzig University)
Robert Hawkins (Stanford University)
Bruce Hayes (University of California, Los Angeles)
Borja Herce (University of Zurich)
Norbert Hornstein (University of Maryland)
Zachary N. Houghton (Vail Systems and University of Oregon)
Jessica Ivani (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Cassandra Jacobs (University at Buffalo)
Gaja Jarosz (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Lukasz Jedrzejowski (University of Agder)
Nika Jurov (University of Oregon)
Yoonjung Kang (University of Toronto)
Vsevolod Kapatsinski (University of Oregon)
Albert Kim (University of Colorado)
Ethan Kutlu (University of Iowa)
Natalia Kuznetsova (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Kristopher Kyle (University of Oregon)
Sarah Lease (University of California, Berkeley)
Ryan Lepic (Gallaudet University)
James Magnuson (Basque Center for Behavior and Language and University of Connecticut)
Dimitrios Meletis (University of Vienna)
Jeff Mielke (University of North Carolina)
Fermin Moscoso del Prado Martin (Cambridge University)
Emily Morgan (University of California, Davis)
Salikoko Mufwene (University of Chicago)
Corrine Occhino (University of Texas, Austin)
Jesus Olguín Martinez (University of Hong Kong)
Augustina Owusu (Swarthmore College)
Doris Payne (University of Oregon)
Florent Perek (University of Birmingham)
Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland)
Carolyn Quam (Portland State University)
Melissa A. Redford (University of Oregon)
Phillip Rogers (University of Pittsburgh)
Nicholas Rolle (Princeton University)
Yağmur Sağ (Swarthmore College)
William Schuler (Ohio State University)
Jason Shaw (Yale University)
Naomi Shin (University of New Mexico)
Shahar Shirtz (Arizona State University)
Irina Shport (Louisiana State University)
Nandi Sims (Stanford University)
Natalia Slioussar (Higher School of Economics)
Tyanna D. Slope (Dartmouth College)
Kenny Smith (University of Edinburgh)
Maria Spychalska (Ruhr University Bochum)
Sabine Stoll (University of Zurich)
Hakyung Sung (University of Hawai’i, Mānoa)
Mark A. Thornton (Dartmouth College)
Patrick C. Trettenbrein (University of Gõttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences)
Melissa Troyer (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
John Trueswell (University of Pennsylvania)
Svetlana Vetchinnikova (University of Helsinki and Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies)
Virve Vihman (University of Tartu)
Georgia Zellou (University of California, Davis)
Tim Zingler (University of Innsbruck)
The cost of tuition will be approximately $1600 for 2.5 weeks and $2500 for 5 weeks. About 20 fellowships are available from the Linguistics Society of America.
Registration for the institute will open in February 2027, at which point the fellowships will have been allocated.
Some courses will be held on Monday & Thursday; others on Tuesday & Friday (except for Field Methods, which will be 4 days a week). Wednesdays and weekends will host tutorials, workshops and conferences.
Some workshops will be held on Monday & Thursday; others on Tuesday & Friday (except for Field Methods, which will be 4 days a week). Wednesdays and weekends will host tutorials, events and conferences.
We look forward to seeing you in Eugene!
Co-Directors of the Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute
Eugene, OR, 2027
Professor Vsevolod Kapatsinski
Head of the Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon
Professor Kaori Idemaru
School of Global Studies and Languages, University of Oregon
Professor Spike Gildea
Linguistics, University of Oregon