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Professor Lacey Wade indicates that "stereotypes about Southern speech trump experience"

An article about Lacey Wade, Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department appeared in KU Today. The study she is working on relates to behavioral mimicry and stereotypes held about Southern accents.  Wade focuses on expectation-driven convergence.

Aron Finholt, Ph.D. Student at KU accepts post-doctoral position at University of Potsdam, Germany

Aron Finholt, Ph.D. candidate in the Linguistics Department has accepted a postdoctoral position at the University of Potsdam in Germany under Dr. Doreen Georgi.  His position is for 6 years and he will be working on morphosyntactic variation.

Tyler Heston, affiliated Adjunct Researcher in the Linguistics Department publishes paper

Tyler Heston, affiliated Adjunct Researcher in the Linguistics Department published a paper in Language Documentation and Description 23(1): 3, 1-17.

Henry Pratt, graduate student receives NSF grant

The Linguistics Department would like to congratulate our graduate student, Henry Pratt.  He received an NSF dissertation award on investigating how vowel sounds are processed and the

Phil Duncan wins Budig Teaching Award

Dr. Phil Duncan just won the 2023-2024 Gene Budig Teaching Professor in Social and Behavioral Sciences Award!

Dr. Phil Duncan Promoted to Associate Teaching Professor

The Department would like to congratulate Dr. Phil Duncan as he was promoted to Associate Teaching Professor.  Thank you for your hard work and dedication!

Linguistics Mourn Loss of MA student, Atheer Alqahtani

With heavy hearts, we mourn the loss of MA student in Linguistics Atheer Alqahtani, who tragically passed way in an accident at Glacier National Park on May 22, 2023.

Phil Duncan Co-Author of Book on Endangered African Language, Ikpana

Phil Duncan expanded his documentation of the Ikpana, an endangered African language with his co-authored book called "Ikpana Interrogatives.  For more information, check out the KU Today News

2023 Award Winners

Graduate Award Winners Dissertation-Year Fellowship: Aron Finholt Frances Ingemann Excellence in Ph.D.: Henry Pratt Frances Ingemann Excellence in M.A.: Victoria Routsong

Graduate Student Amaya Madden presented at 30th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference

Amaya Madden, a graduate student presented at the 30th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (March 11-13, 2023, Simon Frase

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