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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. He will begin teaching there in January 2024, but plans to return to defend his dissertation. Please join our department and congratulate Aron on this incredible opportunity!
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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 role they play
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 arti
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
Ayumi Nobuki, a Linguistics graduate student presented at Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 2023 Biennial Meeting
Ayumi Nobuki, a graduate student presented her poster at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 2023 Biennial Meeting (March 23-25, 2023, Salt Lake City, Utah).