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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! ...
Ruoqian (Lucy) Cheng Receives NSF Grant
Congratulations to Ruoqian (Lucy) Cheng! The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Lucy a Doctoral Dissertation Research Award for her project Speech perception in younger and older adults: Cue-weighting and contextual information. ...
Linguistics B.A. student Emma Scott awarded Spring 2022 Undergraduate Research Award
Linguistics B.A. student Emma Scott awarded Spring 2022 Undergraduate Research Award...
Aron Finholt, Linguistics Graduate Student, WON "Outstanding Master's Thesis and Research Project Award"
Aron Finholt, a Ph.D. graduate student in Linguistics won an, "Outstanding Master's Thesis and Research Project Award" from the College. He was advised by Professor John Gluckman. Aron’s project addresses the question of complementizer choice in Swahili through a regression-based analysis of Swahili corpus data. His analysis focuses specifically on...
Aron Finholt Awarded First Prize in Linguistics Society of America (LSA) Annual Student Abstract Award
The LSA is delighted to announce that the three winners of our annual Student Abstract Awards have been selected. ...
Dr. Annie Tremblay was Invited to Serve as an Associate Editor of Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
Dr. Annie Tremblay was invited to serve an Associate Editor of Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, a top scholarly journal on bilingualism from a linguistic, psycholinguistic, and neuroscientific perspective. She will begin a 5-year appointment in December 2021. ...
Linguistics Alumni, Allie Alvis returns to campus April 30
Allie Alvis graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Linguistics in 2013. As a junior at KU, she entered the KU Libraries’ Snyder Book Collecting Contest in 2012 and won first place for in the undergraduate division. Alvis will be giving the keynote address on April 30 which will be held...