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Professor Alison Gabriele wins Kemper Award
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Congratulations Linguistic Ph.D. Graduates from Spring & Summer 2024
Congratulations to our Linguistics Ph.D. Graduates from Spring and Summer 2024! ...
Graduate Student, Morgan Robertson awarded Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Kelly Bellmyer, Linguistics Office Manager is awarded the College Staff Excellence Award, "Best of the Bunch"
The Linguistics Department Office Manager, Kelly Bellmyer won the "Best of the Bunch" College Staff Excellence Award in recognition of her service and dedication to the department and to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. ...
Linguistics Student, Daphne Tibberts wins Student Employee of Year Award
One of our Linguistics students, Daphne Tibberts wins Student Employee of Year Award. For more information, please click to see the news article in KU Today. Daphne Tibbetts is honored at the 2024 Student Employee of the Year ceremony April 10. Congratulations, Daphne! ...
Professor John Gluckman receives promotion with tenure!
The Department of Linguistics congratulates Dr. John Gluckman for his promotion to Associate Professor with tenure. We’re proud of John’s accomplishments and wish him a long and productive career at KU! ...
Professor Alison Gabriele wins Kemper Award
Professor Phil Duncan presenting at Red Hot Research
Professor Phil Duncan will be presenting at this Friday's Red Hot Research! The title of his presentation is "Language Ideology and the Dilution of Black Student Voices through 'Proper Grammar'". This session is presented in conjunction with the Office of Research and will feature an outstanding set of...
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. Research participants shift their speech to what they think a southern accent should...
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...
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. This article is in their 'Language Contexts' series, which provides background information about the historical, geographic, and cultureal context of understudied languages. ...
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 in speech comprehension. Great job, Henry! ...
Phil Duncan wins Budig Teaching Award
Dr. Phil Duncan just won the 2023-2024 Gene Budig Teaching Professor in Social and Behavioral Sciences Award! This is a well-deserved honor that recognizes Dr. Duncan’s fantastic contributions to teaching innovation, student advising, and curriculum development in the Linguistics Department. We have all learned from Dr. Duncan’s teaching expertise. ...
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. We will miss Atheer’s inquisitive mind, her dedication to her research and studies, her positive energy, and her kindness. She will...
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 article. ...
2023 Award Winners
Pictures are available on the Linguistics Awards website page. ...
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 Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada). This presentation is titled “Acquisition of Japanese negative polarity item licensing by English-speaking second language learners”, co-authored by her and Professor Utako Minai. ...
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). The title of her presentation is “Pragmatic judgement of negative sentences by children: A case of child Japanese”, co-authored by her, Megumi Ishikawa...
Linguistic Graduate Students Presented at ASA Meeting on December 5-9, 2022
Linguistic graduate students presented at the 183rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Nashville, TN, on December 5~9, 2022. Hyoju Kim presented "Perceptual Training Enhances Seoul Korean Listeners’ Use of Vowel Quality and Pitch Cues to English Lexical Stress" with Dr. Annie Tremblay (University of Texas at...
Linguistics Undergraduate and Native American Student, Delilah Begay Visits White House
In the KU Today Campus Newsletter, a news article mentioned undergraduate Linguistics major, Delilah Begah. On November 14-15, 2022, she and two other University of Kansas students were invited to attend two distinguished events at the annual White House Tribal Youth Forum. The students were invited to celebrate...
Henry Pratt wins best student-led presentation award at L3 Workshop 2022
Henry Pratt went to the “L3 Workshop 2022: Workshop on Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing, and Use” in London this past weekend. His presentation “Examining the Morphosyntactic Properties of Counterfactual Conditionals in L2 Brazilian Portuguese” with Professor Alison Gabriele won the best student-led presentation award. ...
Graduate Students Presented at Washington University in St. Louis
Linguistic graduate students presented at the MidPhon 27 Conference at Washington University in St. Louis on October 8, 2022. Henry Pratt presented "Brazilian Portuguese vowel features under the FUL model: a cross-modal priming study." Henry Pratt (University of Kansas), Jie Zhang (University of Kansas), Aditi Lahiri (University of Oxford). ...
Dr. Phil Duncan collaborates with Me̱ꞌpha̱a̱ community in Lawrence (Opens in new window)
Professor Phil Duncan, Assistant Teaching Professor in the Linguistics Department at KU is collaborating with the Me̱ꞌpha̱a̱ community in Lawrence to not only save their language from extinction, create communication between the generations, and conserve the Me̱ꞌpha̱a̱ culture. ...
New Graduate Students
The Linguistics Department welcomes our new graduate students. Peace Benson is in the Ph.D. program. New Master's students include Asmaa Alharthi, Atheer Alqahtani, Asma Alzahrani, Cassidy Duckworth, Rotsuprit Saengthong, and Owen Wegner. We are glad you chose KU and our department! ...
Linguistics Department Welcomes New Faculty
The Linguistics Department welcomes two new faculty members, Drs. Jieun Lee and Stephen Politzer-Ahles. Dr. Jieun Lee graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). Her research interests include second language acquisition, psycholinguistics and speech perception and production. Dr. Stephen Politzer-Ahles is a KU alumni. His research...
Joan Sereno Selected New Division Director for Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences at NSF
Joan Sereno, professor in Linguistics has been chosen as the Division Director of the Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS) Division at the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Division supports basic research in the psychological, linguistics, anthropological, and geographical sciences. BCS research develops and advances scientific knowledge about the...
John Gluckman Receives NSF Grant
John Gluckman, assistant professor receives NSF grant. More information on the NSF grant can be found here. Below are links of articles published regarding his grant in the Lawrence Journal World and KU News. ...
Ruoqian (Lucy) Cheng Awarded Second Place in ASA Poster Competition
Congratulations to Ruoqian (Lucy) Cheng for her second place in the student poster session at the spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. The meeting took place in Denver in May, 2022. Cheng is a fifth-year graduate student. The award-winning poster, based on her dissertation, is titled Rapid speech...
2022 Carolyn J. Abel Senior and Junior Distinguished Major Awards
The Linguistics Department has announced the 2022 Carol J. Abel Distinguished Senior and Junior Award winners. Senior Major Award winners included Marilyn Curtis and Emma Scott. Junior Major Awards went to Jack Foster and Isaac Svihus. Congratulations! ...
Ayumi Nobuki received the Okubo Graduate Research Award
Ayumi Nobuki, Linguistics graduate student, received the Okubo Graduate Research Award by the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) in support of her major paper project she is currently developing, which will examine Japanese-speaking children’s felicity judgment of negative sentences! ...