Ba, Gharib, and Torrence Present at the LASSO Conference
Ibrahima Ba, Hiba Gharib, and Harold Torrence presented papers at the annual conference for the Linguistics Association of the Southwest (LASSO), which was held on South Padre Island, Texas. Ibrahima spoke about “The Syntax of Perfective and Imperfective Clauses in Pulaar”. Hiba’s talk was on “Transitivity Alternations in Sorani Kurdish”. Harold’s paper, co‑authored with Ivano Caponigro and Carlos Cisneros of the University of California, San Diego, was on “Free Relative Clauses in Two Mixtec Languages”.
Sereno chosen as Budig Teaching Professor in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Joan Sereno was awarded the 2011-12 Budig Teaching Professorship in Social and Behavioral Sciences. Now in its second year, this award is given annually to a faculty member who has demonstrated a commitment to excellence in teaching. A former recipient of the Kemper Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching, Prof. Sereno is widely known as an outstanding teacher and advisor. Read the full story here.
Fiorentino, Gabriele, and Minai secure NSF support for GALANA 2012
Robert Fiorentino, Alison Gabriele, and Utako Minai were awarded a conference grant from the National Science Foundation to host 'GALANA-2012 Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America'. The conference, which will be held at the University of Kansas on October 11-13, 2012, will have the special theme of "Psycholinguistic and Neurolinguistic Approaches to Language Development". See the website for more details and for the list of invited speakers.
Linguistics to host GALANA 2012!
The Linguistics department will host the 2012 Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition-North America (GALANA) conference. The conference will be held at KU on October 11-13, 2012. A call for papers will go out in the fall. You can check the website for further updates and for the list of the invited speakers.
NRC assessment of doctoral programs ranks Linguistics in top 25
The National Research Council (NRC) periodically conducts a survey and provides data about doctoral programs at U.S. universities. Previously, the NRC had compiled rankings in 1995. In the 1995 report, KU Linguistics ranked 35 out of 41 ranked Linguistics programs.
The 2010 rankings were published in September, 2010. In the 2010 report, the NRC no longer provides absolute rankings. Instead, the NRC uses statistical sampling methods to present ranges of rankings (90% confidence intervals) over several variables. The 2010 rankings reflect information gathered in 2006 from 52 Linguistics programs. The 'S-ranking' is a composite measure of program features that raters judge to be important in Linguistics. As shown in the table below, the department's 5th percentile of the S-ranking was 13 and the 95th percentile was 29. Thus, the department may be ranked as high as 13th but no lower than 29th as compared to other Linguistics departments nationwide.
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Highest rank |
Highest rank as % |
Lowest Rank |
Lowest rank as % |
Survey-based ‘S’ rankings |
13 |
25% |
29 |
56% |
S rankings for KU Linguistics. Data taken from the 2010 NRC rankings. |
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A conservative interpretation of these results places KU Linguistics in the upper half of the 52 U.S. Linguistics doctoral programs, a very substantial improvement over the 1995 ranking. The department also scored high in faculty and student diversity. For more details, check this Graduate Studies website.
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