New publication by Glenn Starr

Faculty member Glenn Starr, along with co-author Emilie Destruel, has a new publication in Second Language Research, entitled, “A bidirectional study in L2 acquisition of pragmatics: The case of (un-)bounded adjectival scales”. Congratulations, Dr. Starr!

Dong Jin Kim defends doctoral dissertation

Dong Jin Kim has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, “The effects of orienting attention during production training in learning nonnative segmental and prosodic contrasts.” Congratulations, Dr. Kim!

Sean Weaver ’22 earns MPhil from Cambridge University

UWM Linguistics alum Sean Weaver (2022) has graduated from Cambridge University with an MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. He earned a Pass With Distinction, and his dissertation was titled “(Un)fit to purpose: A diachronic investigation of the development of ἵνα …

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