Wenqi Zeng, a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics, has been awarded a Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate College. This fellowship program provides an opportunity for Ph.D. students to benefit from a final semester of protected and supported time to focus on completing their scholarly research activities and the writing of their dissertations. Congratulations Wenqi!

The proposed changes for fall 2025 will enhance collaboration and support student success.

Congratulations to Priya Kearney and Raegan Pallas, winners of the Best Student Poster Award for their poster presentations at this year’s Linguistic Day (March 29, 2024)! Priya Kearney: “How to Diversify Speech Language Pathologists’ Accent Perception”; Raegan Pallas: “An Acoustic Investigation of Arabic and English Oral Stops.” The prize for this competition is a year’s membership in the Linguistics Society of America or the Acoustical Society of America.

The Department of Linguistics will offer a new Data Analytics focus for the MA in Linguistics beginning Fall 2024. The focus (12 semester hours of coursework beyond the core requirements) is designed to train students in the basics of experimental and linguistics-focused data analytics to better prepare them for career opportunities in industry as well as advanced graduate work in Linguistics. Two courses form the core of this focus: LING:4291/4292 Statistical and Experimental Methods in Linguistics I/II; additional coursework is provided in areas such as statistics, experimental design, and human-computer interaction.

Laura McDowell, who will receive a BA in linguistics and Spanish from the University of Iowa in May 2023, is the winner of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Award to Turkey for 2023-24. Follow the attached link to read Laura's thoughts on this achievement in a Q&A article by Ben Partridge.

Olivia Dunn, who will receive an MA in linguistics from the University of Iowa in May 2023, is the winner of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Award to Morocco for 2023-24. Follow the link provided to read about Olivia's thoughts on this achievement.

Onae Parker is the recipient of the Graduate College Summer Fellowship for Summer 2023. This fellowship program provides an opportunity for advanced Ph.D. student to benefit from protected and supported time to pursue their scholarly research activities.

Onae Parker is the recipient of a Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship for 2023. This fellowship program provides an opportunity for advanced Ph.D. students to benefit from protected and supported time to pursue their scholarly research activities. The fellowship is intended to recognize students with distinguished academic achievement during their early graduate training. These achievements are evident from a combination of outstanding academic performance in coursework, as well as early scholarly research activities.

Please consider donating to the Department of Linguistics as part of this year’s One Day for Iowa campaign. Thank you!

Ethan Kutlu has published a paper, "Moving away from deficiency models: Gradiency in bilingual speech categorization", with Bob McMurray in Psychological and Brain Sciences (PBS) and Samantha Chiu, a graduate student in PBS.