Events
Language Science Lecture Series
Maya Abtahian
University of Rochester
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.
Humanities Center, Conference Room D
Maya Abtahian is a sociolinguist in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Rochester. Her research focuses on language variation and change in the context of language shift and other social changes. She studies how people talk, how they think about how they talk, and how the ways that people talk change over time, especially in places where people have more than one way of talking and where some ways of talking are being lost.