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Fred Eckman

  • Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Linguistics

Education

  • PhD, University of Indiana

Courses Taught

  • LINGUIS 100 – The Diversity of Human Language
  • LINGUIS 350 – Introduction to Linguistics
  • LINGUIS 420 – Introduction to Second Language Acquisition
  • LINGUIS 468 – Language in Its Various Forms
  • LINGUIS 708 – Proseminar in Linguistics
  • LINGUIS 806 – Seminar in Linguistics

Teaching Interests

  • General linguistics
  • Second language acquisition

Research Interests

  • Second language acquisition
  • Second-language phonology
  • Second-language syntax

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.