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One co-authored abstract from Ryan Aponte and Robin Fintz was accepted for NCUR 2021

Congratulations! One co-authored abstract by two undergraduate SLAMERs Ryan Aponte and Robin Fintz was recently accepted for a presentation at National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR 2021) on April 12-14, 2021. Their abstract for presentation, titled “The Environmental, Genetic, and Demographic Factors of Linguistic Diversity”, underwent a rigorous review by experts in the discipline and […]

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Kevin Tang featured on CLAS News: How Genetics Guide the Evolution of Language

Kevin Tang featured on the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’s news page. [Reposted from: https://news.clas.ufl.edu/how-genetics-guide-the-evolution-of-language/] More than 7,000 languages have evolved across the globe as different cultures have migrated, interacted with each other and isolated themselves. New research, though, suggests another factor has played a major role in the way these languages changed: genetics. […]

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