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Department of Linguistics

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

News

Professor Joan Sereno awarded a Chancellors Club Teaching Professorship
July 18, 2017
Study shows language development starts in the womb
July 18, 2017
Professor Andrew McKenzie awarded National Science Foundation Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) grant
July 7, 2017
Grad Student David Kummer Recieves Award in the Sigma Xi Research Competition
May 4, 2017
Spring 2017 Newsletter
April 25, 2017
Grad Student David Kummer Recieves Graduate Research Competition Award
April 19, 2017
It’s a family affair! Professor Sereno to participate in unique symposium
January 19, 2017
Smithsonian hosts Rankin papers
December 11, 2016
Acoustics in paradise!
December 10, 2016
Grad student Phil Duncan co-authors study of Cherokee immersion program
December 6, 2016
Jayhawks present at Mayan Linguistics conference
December 5, 2016
KU Linguistics sets record at Fall 2016 ASA meeting
November 17, 2016
Linguistics alum Maria Teresa Martinez-Garcia received 2016 ASA Travel Grant
November 3, 2016
Linguistics alum Brad Montgomery-Anderson receives LSA book award
November 2, 2016
Prof. Rosen named Dean at Georgia State University
July 27, 2016
Professor Sereno new department chair
July 2, 2016
Tessa Scott, Linguistics Undergraduate, Featured in Rock Chalk Weekly
May 2, 2016
Quentin Qin receives NSF dissertation grant
April 27, 2016
Patrick Connelly recipient of the Outstanding Presentation Award at KU's 2016 Undergraduate Research Symposium
April 26, 2016
Linguistics graduate student, Lauren Covey, recipient of the Graduate Research Award at KU's 2016 Graduate Research Competition
April 26, 2016
Linguistics undergraduate students, Patrick Connelly, John-Patrick Doherty, and Keonya Jackson presenting at the 19th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium
April 21, 2016
Tessa Scott, makes waves on water and in classroom!
April 1, 2016
Lauren Covey receives 2016-2017 Ingemann Scholarship
April 1, 2016
Linguistics students present at Graduate Research Competition
March 30, 2016
Zhen Qin receives support from Doctoral Student Research Fund
March 22, 2016
Prof. McKenzie receives course transformation grant for Semantics course
January 20, 2016
Prof. Sereno to head Linguistics Section of AAAS
December 3, 2015
Professor Joan Sereno elected Chair-Elect of the Linguistics and Language Science section of the AAAS
December 3, 2015
Linguistics faculty nominated as outstanding teachers
November 18, 2015
Linguistics Department awarded Chancellor's Doctoral Fellowship for 2016-17
November 3, 2015
KU announces August employee of the month, Corinna Johnson in the department of Linguistics
October 30, 2015
Dr. Frances Ingemann #1 Royals fan, never misses a game at Kauffman stadium
October 29, 2015
Department of Linguistics 2010 alum, Pedro Mateo Pedro publishes The Acquisition of Inflection in Q’anjob’al Maya
September 29, 2015
Department of Linguistics 2008 alum Brad Montgomery-Anderson publishes Cherokee Reference Grammar
May 28, 2015
Congratulations to our 2015 Department of Linguistics Award Recipients
May 14, 2015
Linguistics undergraduate student, Vann Hassell receives John E. Niswander Memorial Dictionary Award
May 14, 2015
Linguistics undergraduate Mike Hemphill wins Laird Essay Contest
May 5, 2015
Two Linguistics students presented at the 2015 KU Undergraduate Research Symposium
April 29, 2015
Vann Craig Hassell, Linguistics undergraduate awarded Foreighn Language and Area Studies Fellowship
April 29, 2015
KU Linguistics is pleased to announce the publication of Studies in Ibibio Grammar (Duncan 2015).
April 29, 2015
Linguistics graduate student, Zhen Qin is presenting a poster at the KU Graduate Research Competition on April 9th
April 9, 2015
Undergraduate student Tessa Scott was accepted to a one-week Michigan Humanities Emerging Research Scholars Program this June
March 26, 2015
Graduate student Lauren Covey received a fellowship to attend the Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute at the University of Chicago in July
March 26, 2015
KU awards tenure to two Linguistics professors
March 23, 2015
Linguistics major Tessa Scott to present her research at national conference
January 29, 2015
Graduate student Maria Teresa Martinez-Garcia selected as Graduate Research Consultant
January 28, 2015
Linguistics major Madeline Level selected as University Scholar
January 27, 2015
Fifty-one students receive Undergraduate Research Awards for spring 2015 - Linguistics Undergraduates Jake Frondorf and Jeff Carmody among the recipients
January 21, 2015
Dr. Annie Tremblay researches role native language plays in processing words in new languages
December 18, 2014
KU News features research by Prof. Pye
November 14, 2014
Dr. Utako Minai to participate with KU research team on Investing With Kids Project
October 27, 2014
Child Language Proseminar - Jeremy Burnison - Uncovering Language Processing with EEG/ERP Studies
October 6, 2014
Brownbag: "From Sound to Spelling: Transforming the Kazakh Writing System," Allard Jongman
September 23, 2014
Fall 2014 Linguistics Welcome Picnic
September 19, 2014
Dr. Cliff Pye receives NSF grant to document how children acquire Northern Pame
September 12, 2014
UDK features research by Profs. Fiorentino and Gabriele
September 11, 2014
Master's Project Defense - Ethan Skinner - Sept. 19th
September 11, 2014
Dr. Jie Zhang awarded a research grant from the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation
September 5, 2014
Brain imaging study examines second-language learning skills - Research by Dr. Robert Fiorentino and Dr. Alison Gabriele
September 5, 2014
Dr. Annie Tremblay receives NSF grant, Effects of Native Language and Linguistic Exposure on Non-Native Listeners' Use of Prosodic Cues in Speech Segmentation
September 5, 2014
Prof. Tremblay receives major NSF grant
August 1, 2014
Brain imaging study examines second-language learning skills
July 22, 2014
Professor aiding Kazakhstan in switching native language to Latin alphabet
July 1, 2014
Phd Defense: Khady Tamba - Clausal nominalization in Wolof
June 2, 2014
Jeffery Durbin won Oral Presentation Award and the first-place Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award
May 6, 2014
Maite Martinez-Garcia receives award in the KU Sigma Xi Graduate Research Competition
May 6, 2014
Undergraduate Research Symposium
April 26, 2014
Profs. Fiorentino and Gabriele to teach at KU Mini College
April 15, 2014
Maria Teresa Martinez-Garcia to participate in Cognitive Psychology summer school
April 15, 2014
KU scholars see value in preserving Africa’s endangered languages
April 14, 2014
KU hosting ACAL 45
April 9, 2014
Lauren Covey receives NSF Honorable Mention
April 5, 2014
Adrienne Johnson receives NSF EAPSI award
April 5, 2014
Linguistics receives Department Teaching Grant
April 1, 2014
Linguistics majors elected to Phi Beta Kappa
April 1, 2014
Joleen Chu awarded the 2014 Schiefelbusch Child Language Scholarship
March 26, 2014
Spring 2014 Newsletter
March 26, 2014
Prof. Rankin commemorated for his work on the Kanza language
March 4, 2014
KU Bold Aspirations Visitor and Lecture Series Presents: Dr. D. Kimbrough Oller, "Emergence of Foundations for Language"
March 3, 2014
Professor Emeritus Rankin Dies
February 27, 2014
Students present at Graduate Research Competition
February 27, 2014
Professor Emeritus Erazmus Dies
February 26, 2014
Dr. Clifton Pye will be presenting at the Linguistic Cycle conference on April 25-26, 2014
February 21, 2014
Allard Jongman becomes Associate Editor for Phonetica
February 18, 2014
Dr. Andrew McKenzie hosting LaTeX workshop (part 2) -February 21, 3:30pm, 206 Blake Hall
February 18, 2014
Dr. Andrew McKenzie hosting LaTex workshop (part 3), March 7, 3:30pm, 206 Blake Hall
February 18, 2014
Chia-ying Chu & Dr. Utako Minai will be presenting at the 2nd East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium
February 18, 2014
Jie Liu, graduate student, presenting a paper at the 27th Annual CUNY Conference
February 17, 2014
Zhen Qin & Dr. Annie Tremblay will be presenting at the 2014 Speech Prosody Conference
February 17, 2014
Dr. Andrew McKenzie hosting LaTeX Workshop - February 7th, 3:30pm, 418 Blake Hall
February 6, 2014
Dr. Andrew McKenzie invited to give talk at SULA conference
February 6, 2014
Zhen Qin receives Best Student Paper Award at ASA meeting
February 4, 2014
Prof. Lori Holt to deliver 2014 Ingemann Lecture
January 30, 2014
Speaker Sex Affects Listener Processing of Gendered Words
January 28, 2014
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics (KWPL) downloads hit 100,000!
January 8, 2014
ACAL 45 – Africa’s Endangered Languages: Documentary & Theoretical Approaches
January 8, 2014
New program to bring research into the classroom
January 8, 2014
College surprises linguistics professor with Budig teaching award
September 28, 2011
Linguistics graduate students Maria Teresa Martinez-Garcia & Zhen Qin selected as Graduate Research Consultants

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