Kansas Linguistics

Kansas Linguistics A page for the Linguistics Department at the University of Kansas.

This week, KU linguistics hosts its semestrial Undergraduate Research Symposium. Major students from our capstone course...
05/05/2026

This week, KU linguistics hosts its semestrial Undergraduate Research Symposium. Major students from our capstone courses present their original research projects with academic posters. Also, linguistics honors students will present their honors thesis research with talks, and we will present awards to undergraduate and graduate students for excellence in class, teaching, and service.

Our symposium will take place Thursday May 7 starting at 4 pm, in Blake 211 with honors presentations and awards. We plan for the capstone poster session and reception to begin at 5:15 in Blake 207.

Check it out tomorrow! Come on over to the Lawrence Public Library this weekend to explore language courtesy of the KU S...
04/24/2026

Check it out tomorrow! Come on over to the Lawrence Public Library this weekend to explore language courtesy of the KU Sociolinguistics Lab! We are hosting an interactive drop-in event where folks of all ages can explore the science of language.

It's Saturday the 25th, from 11am-2pm in the atrium, right as you enter.

WARNING! The Ingemann Lecture post had the erroneous time of 4 pm, but the talk is at 3 pm! The location has not change...
04/17/2026

WARNING! The Ingemann Lecture post had the erroneous time of 4 pm, but the talk is at 3 pm! The location has not changed; it is still in the forum in Marvin Hall.

Our apologies for anyone's planning.

Join us this afternoon for the annual Ingemann Lecture! In honor of our department's founder, Dr. Frances Ingemann, we host a distinguished scholar at the forefront of their area, to give our community a chance to hear that scholar's research and meet with them about their own research. This year we have the pleasure to invite Dr. Melissa Baese-Berk of the University of Chicago, whose talk will be Factors Influencing Non-native Perception and Learning. The Ingemann Lecture will take place at the fabulous Forum in Marvin Hall, Friday April 17 at 3 pm.

Come one, come all, to the Lawrence Public Library next weekend to explore language courtesy of the KU Sociolinguistics ...
04/10/2026

Come one, come all, to the Lawrence Public Library next weekend to explore language courtesy of the KU Sociolinguistics Lab! We are hosting an interactive drop-in event where folks of all ages can explore the science of language.

It's Saturday the 25th, from 11am-2pm in the atrium, right as you enter.

Join us next Friday for the annual Ingemann Lecture! In honor of our department's founder, Dr. Frances Ingemann, we host...
04/09/2026

Join us next Friday for the annual Ingemann Lecture! In honor of our department's founder, Dr. Frances Ingemann, we host a distinguished scholar at the forefront of their area, to give our community a chance to hear that scholar's research and meet with them about their own research. This year we have the pleasure to invite Dr. Melissa Baese-Berk of the University of Chicago, whose talk will be Factors Influencing Non-native Perception and Learning. The Ingemann Lecture will take place at the fabulous Forum in Marvin Hall, Friday April 17 at 3 pm.

Congratulations to Margot Cobat, for defending her Master's Research Project, involving four experiments about how L2 Ru...
12/12/2025

Congratulations to Margot Cobat, for defending her Master's Research Project, involving four experiments about how L2 Russian learners handle conjunctions (И, А, and НO if you know).
Now it's on to the Ph.D!

Kansas linguists had a great presence last week at the annual NWAV conference: New Ways of Analyzing Variation (pronounc...
11/13/2025

Kansas linguists had a great presence last week at the annual NWAV conference: New Ways of Analyzing Variation (pronounced "N-wave"), held at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Lacey Wade collaborated with Aini Li of City U of Hong Kong on the poster: Tacit knowledge of stylistic variation: Evidence from (ING) perception in L1 and L2 English listeners

Jocelyn Brown (MA '25, now at Kentucky) collaborated with grad student Peace Benson and KU undergrads Emma Hefty and Abba Bennafield on a talk: Use of (ING) Variation in Nonbinary Speakers to Index Stance Within the Q***r Community. She also presented a solo poster: Exploring Social Salience to Explain Processing Differences of Vernacular English Constructions.

Grad student Adam An presented two collaborations with Jean Paul Ngoboka (U of Rwanda): The poster: How do we evaluate what we don't know? Social evaluation of ambiguous variables in Kinyarwanda... and the talk Northwestern or just nonstandard? Social Meaning of Kinyarwanda Morphosyntactic Variation

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies is hosting a talk featuring a collaboration between a linguist and a...
11/12/2025

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies is hosting a talk featuring a collaboration between a linguist and a historian, who have translated much of the most important Guaraní-language literature from the colonial period.

Dr Leonardo Cerdo (Argentina Conicet) and Dr Shawn Austin (Arkansas) will give their talk, "THIS LAND OF OUR TRUE FLESH: Guaraní Voices Against Enlightenment-Era Tyranny in South America, 1750-1756," on Thursday November 13, 3:30-4:30 pm, in Bailey 318.

Join us for the next talk in our Linguistic Colloquy series, by Dr Winston Goh (National University of Singapore), who w...
11/12/2025

Join us for the next talk in our Linguistic Colloquy series, by Dr Winston Goh (National University of Singapore), who will present "The Auditory English Lexicon Project:
looking back and looking ahead."

Exceptionally, this talk is on a Tuesday, November 18 at 4pm, and it's in an exceptional location: Capitol Federal Hall, room 3015.

As always, the talk will be followed by light refreshments, and is available on zoom if you can attend remotely. Please ask [email protected] for the zoom link.

Join us for another talk in our Linguistic Colloquy series, by Dr Miguel Albújar-Escuredo of KU's Spanish & Portuguese ...
11/12/2025

Join us for another talk in our Linguistic Colloquy series, by Dr Miguel Albújar-Escuredo of KU's Spanish & Portuguese department. He will present "The Grammar of Surrender: Linguistic markers of posthuman transformation in Polybus and
"Cephalamorphs"

This talk is back to our regular colloquy slot, on Thursday November 20 at 4 pm, and back in the lovely Stauffer-Flint 100.

As always, the talk will be followed by light refreshments, and is available on zoom if you can attend remotely. Please ask [email protected] for the zoom link.

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