Oh takes positions in Korea

Sujin Oh (PhD 2024) has taken up multiple positions in Korea and is currently teaching as a part-time lecturer at Soongsil University, Sejong University, and Kookmin University. She is also working as a part-time postdoctoral researcher at Seoul National University. …

Linguists win SURF funding

Several Linguistics faculty have been awarded SURF funding to support undergraduate research this fall: Anne Pycha will be working with Emma Henkhaus and Cassie Rice Glenn Starr will be working with Preston Ruh Jae Yung Song and Fred Eckman will …

Fuddah to present at LSA

Doctoral student Aisha Fuddah’s abstract entitled “Overt polarity in Hijazi Arabic” has been accepted for presentation as a talk at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Philadelphia in January. Congratulations, Aisha!

Fleisher talks at Georgetown

Associate Professor Nick Fleisher gave an invited talk at Georgetown University earlier this month in their Linguistics Department’s Friday Research Talks series. The title of the talk was “The semantics and pragmatics of norm erosion.”

Fleisher in LI and Proceedings of SALT

Two papers by Nick Fleisher were published recently: On Referential Parallelism and Compulsory Binding, published in the fall 2023 issue of Linguistic Inquiry Semifactives in Comparatives, published in the Proceedings of SALT 33

Ryan defends dissertation

Jacklyn Ryan has successfully defended her dissertation, entitled “Is That a Rhetorical Question?: A Pragmatic Analysis.” Congratulations, Dr. Ryan!

Kim and Quigley at WIGL

UWM will be well represented at this year’s WIGL workshop at UW-Madison. Yunhui Kim will present a paper entitled “On Korean Why-Stripping” and Daniel Quigley will present a paper entitled “Decoding Authorial Style, Tone, and Mood in Poetic Translations through …

Park and Lee at HISPhonCog

Hanyong Park and Jieun Lee (PhD 2022) will be presenting a paper entitled “Within-category cue sensitivity in native language perception and its relationship to non-native phonological contrast learning” at the upcoming Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of …

Fleisher at Maryland and SALT

Nick Fleisher presented his research in progress at the University of Maryland’s Meaning Meeting last week, and will be at Yale in May to present a paper entitled “Semifactives in comparatives” at this year’s Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) conference.

UWM linguists at ASA

Three abstracts from the UWM Linguistics Department were accepted for presentation at the upcoming 184th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Chicago this May: “Perceived talker variability in high-variability perceptual training” by Hanyong Park & Jieun Lee (PhD …