Doctoral student Doaa Alosaimi successfully defended her dissertation, “The acquisition of English consonant clusters by Hijazi Arabic speakers: The effects of L1 transfer vs. markedness vs. input frequency.” The dissertation was supervised by Dr. Jae Yung Song. Congratulations, Dr. Alosaimi!… Continue Reading »
Park and Ruh receive summer SURF award
Associate Professor Hanyong Park and linguistics undergraduate Preston Ruh have received a SURF (Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows) award for summer 2023, for the project “Native Language Category Precision in Second Language Speech Learning.” Congratulations, Dr. Park and Preston!… Continue Reading »
Marcia Gonzales Llanos will pursue doctorate at MIT
UWM Philosophy and Linguistics student Marcia Gonzales Llanos has accepted an offer to attend the doctoral program in linguistics at MIT! Congratulations, Marcia! (photo credit Tessa Culleton)… Continue Reading »
Al Omary defends dissertation proposal
Doctoral student Maaly Al Omary successfully defended her dissertation proposal, “Arabic Heritage Speakers’ Acquisition of Arabic Emphatic-Plain Contrasts”. Congratulations, Maaly! &nbs… Continue Reading »
Oh defends dissertation proposal
Doctoral student Sujin Oh successfully defended her dissertation proposal, “Individual differences of L1 category precision in L2 speech learning”. Congratulations, Sujin!… Continue Reading »
Mehrparvar named C21 Story Experience fellow
Doctoral student Sahar Mehrparvar has been named a C21 Story Experience Fellow for 2023-2024. In this role, she will work in partnership with Milwaukee-based organizations to facilitate storying in a range of forms from oral history to poetry and story-circles. … Continue Reading »
Daniel and Yunhui presenting at WiGL
Daniel Quigley and Yunhui Kim presenting at the 17th Annual Workshop in General Linguistics (WiGL) at UW Madison.… Continue Reading »