Amal El Haimeur, who earned her Ph.D in Linguistics from UWM in 2019, has been promoted to tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Kansas University. Congratulations, Dr. El Haimeur! &nbs… Continue Reading »
Fleisher talks at Georgetown
Associate Professor Nick Fleisher gave an invited talk at Georgetown University earlier this month in their Linguistics Department’s Friday Research Talks series. The title of the talk was “The semantics and pragmatics of norm erosion.”… Continue Reading »
Culleton to University of Maryland
Tessa Culleton (Linguistics BA 2022) has accepted a funded offer of admission to the doctoral program in linguistics at the University of Maryland, one of the top-ranked departments in the country. Congratulations, Tessa!… Continue Reading »
Quigley to Japan for Fujitsu research in AI
Doctoral student Daniel Quigley has been offered a summer position in Graduate Research in Industrial Projects for Students, a program at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles, which is sponsored by the National … Continue Reading »
Gyasi and Polyglot MKE
Last week’s meeting of Polyglot MKE was a lively lesson in the Twi language, taught by Diana Boateng. It was a big success and Emmanuel Appiah Gyasi helped facilitate it. Congratulations, Emmanuel!… Continue Reading »
Oh and Park to present at LabPhon 19
The work of Sujin Oh and Hanyong Park has been accepted for presentation at the 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 19) to be held at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, from June 27 to 29, 2024. The title of their … Continue Reading »
Lee, Kim, and Park paper in Linguistic Research
A paper by Jieun Lee (UWM PhD 2022), Dong Jin Kim, and Hanyong Park entitled “Native listeners’ perceptual assessments of native and foreign-accented speech and their associations with various speech properties” has been accepted for publication in the journal Linguistic … Continue Reading »
Doctoral students to present at UW Madison
Three of our doctoral students will be presenting at the Workshop in General Linguistics (WiGL) to be held April 12-13, 2024 at UW Madison. Arabic Heritage Speakers’ Perception of Arabic Emphatic-Plain Contrasts Maaly Al Omary Be Reasonable! Relating Logical Models … Continue Reading »
Fuddah wins award for Best Student Abstract
At the 37th Symposium on Arabic Linguistics at Long Island University, doctoral student Aisha Fuddah wont the Best Student Abstract Award for her abstract “Hijazi Arabic muu: beyond mere negation.” The award came with a prize of $300. Congratulations, Aisha!… Continue Reading »
Fleisher in LI and Proceedings of SALT
Two papers by Nick Fleisher were published recently: On Referential Parallelism and Compulsory Binding, published in the fall 2023 issue of Linguistic Inquiry Semifactives in Comparatives, published in the Proceedings of SALT 33… Continue Reading »