Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal presented a paper at the 2019 SLA Symposium, held last weekend at UW-Madison. His paper was entitled “On the L2 acquisition of embedded tense in before-clauses: a bi-directional study of truth conditional mismatch.”… Continue Reading »
Kim presents at ILLS
Linguistics Ph.D. student Okgi Kim is presenting a paper at the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society conference this weekend. His paper is entitled “Gapless right dislocation in Korean as remnant-VP movement.”… Continue Reading »
Abu Helal defends dissertation
On Tuesday, April 23, 2019, Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal successfully defended his dissertation, “Logical Form in the Second Language: An Investigation into Quantification in Interlanguage.” Congratulations, Dr. Abu Helal!… Continue Reading »
Sarah Ransom-Laud ’18 to University of Texas, Austin
UWM linguistics graduate Sarah Ransom-Laud (formerly Sarah Gilbert), class of 2018, has accepted a funded offer to the Ph.D program in linguistics at the University of Texas, Austin. Congratulations, Sarah!… Continue Reading »
El Haimeur defends dissertation
On Tuesday, April 16, 2019, Amal El Haimeur successfully defended her dissertation, “The Acquisition of Morphology in Moroccan Heritage Speakers in France.” Congratulations, Dr. El Haimeur!… Continue Reading »
Song and Eckman in Language Acquisition
Jae Yung Song and Fred Eckman’s paper “Covert contrasts in the acquisition of English high front vowels by native speakers of Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish” has just been published in Language Acquisition.… Continue Reading »
Korb receives FLAS for Japanese
Linguistics major Stephanie Korb has received an academic year Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) award to study Japanese in Japan for the 2019–20 academic year. Congratulations, Stephanie!… Continue Reading »
Ouali gives two invited talks
Associate Professor Hamid Ouali recently gave a pair of invited talks. The first, entitled “On Tense and Aspect in Tamazight,” was delivered at the Workshop on Amazigh Languages at McGill University. The second, entitled “On the Progressive in Arabic,” was … Continue Reading »
Pycha gives invited talk at Princeton Phonology Forum
This weekend (April 6, 2019), associate professor Anne Pycha is an invited speaker at the Princeton Phonology Forum at Princeton University. The title of her talk is “Perception and memory of individual morphemes in spoken words: Two experiments”.… Continue Reading »