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Jayhawks at the fall Acoustical Society of America in Honolulu. From left to right: Dr. Annie Olmstead (SPLH), Quentin Qin, Dr. Maite Martinez-Garcia (Ph.D. 2016, now at Texas A&M University-Commerce), Charlie Redmon, Dr. Allard Jongman, Dr. Goun Lee (Ph.D. 2015, now at Yonsei University, South Korea), Seulgi Shin, Dr. Annie Tremblay, Dr. Joan Sereno, Dr. Yue Wang (honorary Jayhawk, at Simon Fraser University, Canada), Dr. Jie Zhang, and Katrina Connell. Seated in the foreground is Dr. Navin Viswanathan (SPLH). Also present at the meeting were Dr. Olga Dmitrieva (M.A. 2005, now at Purdue University) and Tiffani Biro (SPLH).

KU Linguistics was well represented at the recent Tonal Aspects of Languages conference held in Buffalo, NY. From left to right: Katrina Connell, doctoral student, Allard Jongman, Jiang Liu (PhD 2013), Yu-Fu Chien (PhD 2016), Joan Sereno, Jie Zhang, and Yue Wang (honorary Jayhawk).

Patrick Connelly presenting at the 2016 Undergraduate Research Symposium

John-Patrick Doherty presenting at the 2016 Undergraduate Research Symposium

Department of Linguistics - Faculty and Staff - Spring 2015

Keonya Jackson presenting at the 2016 Undergraduate Research Symposium

Graduate students Nick Feroce & Xiao Yang in the Neurolinguistics lab.

Undergraduate student, Tessa Scott in Tanzania studying Swahili.

Dr. Zhang collecting data on a Hakka dialect of Chinese.

Dr. Joan Sereno & graduate student Mingxing Li at the CLAS majors fair

Corinna Johnson, Office Manager, Department of Linguistics

August 2015 KU Employee of the Month

The Linguistics Department at KU offers a full range of degrees: B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. The first linguistics courses at KU were offered in 1957. In 1968, Linguistics became a department and was authorized to offer a Ph.D. degree. Today, the unique strength of the Linguistics department is the systematic pairing of theoretical and experimental investigations of linguistic knowledge. Its nucleus of full-time faculty members in Linguistics, plus several actively involved faculty members in other departments, serves a student body of about 35 graduate students, 80 undergraduate majors, and many non-majors taking introductory and intermediate courses each semester.

Areas of special strength in the graduate program include Phonetics, Phonology, Syntax, First and Second Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, and Neurolinguistics. The department also cooperates with other departments, such as Speech-Language-Hearing, Child Language, Indigenous Nations Studies, Anthropology, Education, and Psychology.

Linguistics Colloquy Schedule

(Thursdays at 4pm in Blake 206)

January 26- Phil Duncan (KU Linguistics)
February 9 - Dr Mythili Menon (Wichita State University)
February 23- Mingxing Li (KU Linguistics)
March 9- Dr Panying Rong (KU Speech-Language-Hearing)
March 27 (MONDAY, 4pm, 206 Blake)- Quentin Zhen Qin (KU Linguistics)
April 6- Dr Navin Viswanathan (KU Speech-Language-Hearing)
April 21 (FRIDAY, 3:30pm, 100 Stauffer-Flint)- Dr Jim Magnuson (Univ. of Connecticut) (Ingemann lecture)
May 4- Undergrad honors presentations

Recent Publications

Examining visible articulatory features in clear and plain speech.
Lisa Y.w. Tang, Beverly Hannah, Allard Jongman, Joan Sereno, Yue Wang, and Ghassan Hamarneh, Speech Communications. More»
What comes after /f/? Prediction in speech derives from data-explanatory processes.
Bob McMurray and Allard Jongman. Psychological Science. More»
Cross-modal priming differences between native and nonnative Spanish speakers.
Wendy Herd, Joan Sereno, & Allard Jongman. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics More»
Acquisition and use of linguistic knowledge: scrambling in child Japanese as a test case.
Minai, Utako; Isobe, Miwa & Okabe, Reiko. Journal of Psycholinguistics Research. More»
Acoustic evidence for diachronic sound change in Korean prosody: A comparative study of the Seoul and South Kyungsang dialects.
Hyunjung Lee and Allard Jongman. Journal of Phonetics. More»
The relative contribution of segments and intonation to the perception of foreign-accented speech.
Joan Sereno, Lynn Lammers, and Allard Jongman. Applied Psycholinguistics. More»
Morphological decomposition in de-adjectival nominals in Japanese: Masked and overt priming evidence.
Robert Fiorentino, Yuka Naito-Billen, and Utako Minai. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. More»

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May 4, 2017
Grad Student David Kummer Recieves Award in the Sigma Xi Research Competition
April 25, 2017
Spring 2017 Newsletter
April 19, 2017
Grad Student David Kummer Recieves Graduate Research Competition Award

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