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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.
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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.
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!
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 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.