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  • Alshammeri defends dissertation
    On Monday, May 4, Reem Alshammeri successfully defended her dissertation, entitled The syntax of ditransitives in Najdi Arabic. Congratulations, Dr. Alshammeri!
  • Fuddah defends dissertation
    On Friday, May 1, Aisha Fuddah successfully defended her dissertation, entitled The syntax of yes-no questions and their answers in Hijazi Arabic. Congratulations, Dr. Fuddah!
  • Important Linguistics Update for Fall 2026 Registration
    Greetings Linguistics undergraduates! Starting in Fall 2026, there are some changes to the requirements for the major. These are designed to make things easier for students and also to introduce some new curricular areas. The good news is that existing majors can choose to complete the major using either the old requirements or the new requirements. The updates are summarized below …
  • Starr publishes chapter in “New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition”
    Faculty member Glenn Starr published a chapter in New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) Conference. The selection focuses on the role that inhibitory control plays in second language learners' sensitivity to context. In particular, the work examines awareness of the 'Question Under …
  • Fleisher talks at UChicago
    Faculty member Nick Fleisher was on the road last week to give a colloquium presentation on his current research at the University of Chicago Department of Linguistics, with a talk entitled "Something all its own: on English own possessives."
  • UWM Linguistics will be well represented at the 39th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (ASAL 39 Indiana)
    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 …
  • 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!

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