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  • UWM Linguistics will be well represented at the 39th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (ASAL 39 Indiana), which will take place at Indiana University in March
    The following doctoral students will present their work: Answering systems and proposition salience: Evidence from Hijazi Arabic, by Aisha Fuddah Arabic Heritage Speakers’ Perception of Emphatic–Plain Contrasts: The Influence of Vowel Context and Consonant Position, by Maaly Al Omary Spatial PPs in Najdi, by Hammad Alshammari Ditransitive Structures in Najdi Saudi Arabic, by Reem Alshammeri …
  • Glenn Starr publishes new article in the Journal of Memory and Language
    Dr. Glenn Starr together with his colleague Dr. Greta Mazzaggio from the University of Florence recently published the article "The semantics behind the inference: How first language quantifier systems shape scalar reasoning in second language learners" in the Journal of Memory and Language. Glenn thanks Dr. Pycha, Dr. Fleischer, Dr. Park, Dr. Ouali, and Dr. Davis …
  • Glenn Starr featured in UWM L&S InFocus publication
    Faculty member Glenn Starr was featured in the most recent issue of UWM L&S InFocus publication. Congratulations, Dr. Starr! https://uwm.edu/letters-science/in-focus/research-news/we-need-some-context-uwm-linguists-research-reveals-cognitive-patterns-in-language/  
  • Dong Jin Kim (PhD 2024) presents at ASA
    Last week, Dong Jin Kim (PhD 2024), co-authoring with Hanyong Park, presented a poster at the Sixth Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan in Honolulu, Hawaii. The title of the poster was “Production-based training and its effects on the perception of segmental and prosodic contrasts: The role …
  • Joy Alcorn (MA ’24) presents at Psychonomics Conference
    Last weekend, Joy Alcorn (MA 2024) presented a poster at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society in Denver, Colorado. Her poster was entitled, "Differences in working memory strategies between monolinguals and bilinguals demonstrated by performance on a dual-task Corsi blocks task," co-authored with faculty member Anne Pycha. Congratulations, Joy!    
  • Pycha presents at MidPhon 2025
    Faculty member Anne Pycha travelled to Indiana University to present at the 30th annual Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology conference. Her poster was entitled, "Comparing implicit phonological knowledge of humans and LLMs."
  • Two new articles by Lee and Park
    Two new articles by Jieun Lee (PhD 2022) and Hanyong Park have just been published: "Can lower inhibitory control lead to better second language phonological contrast learning" in Linguistic Research, "The role of speaking rates in High Variability Phonetic Training" in Phonetics and Speech Sciences. Congratulations, Drs. Lee and Park!
  • Alshammeri to present at LSA 2026
    Congratulations to Reem Alshammeri, whose paper ‘Ditransitive Constructions in Najdi Arabic’ has been accepted for an in-person poster presentation at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting, to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, in January 2026.
  • Quigley to Indiana
    Daniel Quigley (PhD 2025) is off to Indiana University, where he will be a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Possible Minds. Daniel writes, "I will be working on semantics, various representations of meaning in language and semiotics, and conversation dynamics." Congratulations, Daniel!
  • Linguistics receives multiple SURF Awards
    Several students and faculty members received SURF (Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows) awards this semester. Kenji Rackoff received a SURF award to work on a project entitled "The Role of Cognitive Abilities in Second Language Sound Learning," under the direction of faculty member Hanyong Park. In this project, they will investigate whether learners' inhibitory control accounts …
  • Kim and Park at CogNeuroIDALL
    Dong Jin Kim (PhD, 2024) and Hanyong Park presented their research last week at the Language Learning roundtable conference, Cognitive Neuroscience of Individual Differences in Adult Language Learning (CogNeuroIDALL): Future directions, held at the University of Illinois Chicago. Their poster was titled "Explicit and implicit learning of segmental and prosodic contrasts: The impact of cognitive …
  • Congratulations to 2025 Linguistics graduates
    Congratulations to all of our spring 2025 UWM Linguistics graduates! BA: Payton Auel Kimberly Campos Melanie Choeun-La Emma Henkhaus Hannah Jones Cassandra Rice Preston Ruh Breanna Watson Luna Whelan MA: Victoria Baake PhD: Daniel Quigley

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