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Linguistics

Language is a window into the mind. Linguistics provides an understanding of the human capacity to acquire, perceive, and produce language and of language's role in contemporary society.

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Professor Rober Fiorentino with students at poster session

Undergraduate Programs

The Department offers a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of General Studies, and two minors in Linguistics.

Degrees Offered

Linguistics Welcomes New Faculty

The Linguistics Department welcomes two new faculty members. We are so happy that you decided to join our department! Please join us and welcome Drs. Jeffrey Holliday and Lacey Wade!

Dr. Jeffrey Holliday

Dr. Jeffrey Holliday

Dr. Jeff Holliday focuses on the phonetics of second language acquisition of Korean, with a secondary specialization in sociolinguistics, and joins us from his current position at Korea University, in Seoul, South Korea.

Dr. Lacey Wade

Dr. Lacey Wade  

Dr. Lacey Wade focuses on sociophonetic variation, and joins us from her current position at the University of Pennsylvania.

Students in Neuro Lab

Graduate Programs

The Department offers a Master of Arts degree and a Ph.D. degree.

Degrees Offered

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Undergraduate degree options
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Latest News

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. 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.



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