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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. 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...