University of Kentucky Linguistics Department

02/27/2025

"We do like to jokingly say it’s like talking with marbles in your mouth, but really, it’s the exact same thing we do in other words...crucially there’s nothing really easier or garbled about making the ‘uh’ sound compared to all of the other sounds we have in English." -Dr. Jennifer Cramer

Check out Dr. Cramer’s episode discussing the hot topic of how to properly pronounce Louisville on the On Track with LPM podcast!

https://www.lpm.org/podcast/on-track/2025-02-26/on-track-how-do-you-say-lou-uh-vull

03/14/2024

Folk linguistics is the topic of the March edition of Paul's "In a Manner of Speaking" podcast. And Paul's guest is dialectologist Dennis Preston.

01/30/2024

To boldly go where no tourist guide has gone before…

Arts and Sciences faculty (Andrew Byrd, Meg Wallace, Kishonna Gray, and Brenna Byrd) + Visit LEX team up to send the first travel guide to space.

Check it out: https://www.visitlex.com/aliens/

University of Kentucky Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies , University of Kentucky Linguistics Department , University of Kentucky Department of Psychology

01/30/2024

Join us Friday at 1 PM in Gatton B&E rm. 127 for a colloquium talk by Dr. Monica Nesbitt from Indiana University. Dr. Nesbitt will speak about "Catalysts for change: A view from 20th century North American English."

For more info: https://linguistics.as.uky.edu/linguistics-colloquium-series-7

11/28/2023

The deadline to apply for our Assistant Professor in Syntax position is less than two weeks away!

Deadline: Monday, December 11.
Apply here: https://ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/485221

11/16/2023

Five department members were among the numerous College faculty honored at the A&S Promotion and Tenure breakfast this morning. The celebration was for those faculty who were promoted and/or tenured over the past four years.

11/07/2023

December 13 is the deadline to apply to the UK Linguistics Doctoral program!

For more info:

The Linguistics Graduate Program fosters graduate student research, networking, and collaboration with scholars from across the country and the globe. Faculty members act as mentors and advocates for our students, often engaging in joint research projects. The Linguistics Graduate Student Associatio...

10/12/2023

10/03/2023

Join us this Friday, October 6 at 1 PM for our second colloquium of the semester given by Dr. Dan Villarreal from U. Pitt.

We hope to see you there!

09/20/2023

Dr. Kevin McGowan will give our first colloquium talk of the semester on Friday at 1 PM in the Esports Theater.

Date: 09/22/2023 - 01:00 pm - 09/22/2023 - 02:00 pm Location: Cornerstone Esports Theater Speaker(s) / Presenter(s): Dr. Kevin McGowan Title: Some limits on social speech perception and what they might mean -or- I’ve had a lot of null results and I think I finally learned something Every time we o...

09/11/2023

Stop by and see us at the Undergraduate Research and Creative Experience Expo today from 11 to 1 in the Gatton Student Center!

09/06/2023

We are hiring for an Assistant Professor of Syntax! The application portal will be open through December 11.

Learn more about the department: https://linguistics.as.uky.edu/

Check out the job listing here: https://ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/485221

The Department of Linguistics in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky seeks to fill a tenure-eligible faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in Syntax. This is a 9-month position in the regular title series with an anticipated start date of...