Johnston, Merrill, and Holton Hall at UWM

We offer some of the best resources for learning and researching linguistics in the state of Wisconsin. Our faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate majors are uncovering the structure of language using cutting-edge methods such as ultrasound imaging and eye-tracking. We are showing that texts, sentences, words, consonants, and vowels observe principles that are not apparent to the naked ear. These principles create the potential for more efficient legal systems, more successful educational environments, new therapies for people who struggle with speaking and listening, and next-generation technologies in web search and speech recognition. Learn more about what UWM linguists are doing!

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.