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 »
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 »
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 »
New publication by Pycha, Culleton, and Song
Anne Pycha, Tessa Culleton (Linguistics BA 2022), and Jae Yung Song (Chung-Ang University and UWM) have just published a new article in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, The Role of Speech Style, Frequency, and Density in Recognition Memory for Spoken Words. … Continue Reading »
Kim, Kim, and Park published in Glossa
A paper by doctoral student Dong Jin Kim, Okgi Kim (Ph.D 2022, Lecturer at Kyung Hee University and Chung-Ang University), and Associate Professor Hanyong Park entitled “Prosodic realization of identificational and contrastive focus in Korean multiple accusative constructions” has been … Continue Reading »
Culleton will present at Algonquian Conference
Along with co-authors Angela Mesic and Nathon Breu from the Electa Quinney Institute, Tessa Culleton (Linguistics BA 2022) will present the paper “Gidozhibii’amawaanaanig Gidoshkigiminaanig – The Importance of Phonemic Awareness in Ojibwemowin to Support Early Literacy” at the 55th Algonquian … Continue Reading »
Aldholmi promoted to Associate Professor
Yahya Aldholmi (PhD 2018) has been promoted to Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. Congratulations, Yahya!… Continue Reading »
Sean Weaver will pursue MPhil in Cambridge
Recent graduate Sean Weaver (UWM 2022) has an accepted an offer to pursue an MPhil degree in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He will start in the fall of 2023. Congratulations, Sean!… Continue Reading »
Park and Lee at HISPhonCog
Hanyong Park and Jieun Lee (PhD 2022) will be presenting a paper entitled “Within-category cue sensitivity in native language perception and its relationship to non-native phonological contrast learning” at the upcoming Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of … Continue Reading »
UWM linguists at ASA
Three abstracts from the UWM Linguistics Department were accepted for presentation at the upcoming 184th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Chicago this May: “Perceived talker variability in high-variability perceptual training” by Hanyong Park & Jieun Lee (PhD … Continue Reading »