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 … Continue Reading »
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! We need “some” context: UWM linguist’s research reveals cognitive patterns in language &nbs… Continue Reading »
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 … Continue Reading »
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 … Continue Reading »
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.”… Continue Reading »
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 … Continue Reading »
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.… Continue Reading »
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 … Continue Reading »
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 … Continue Reading »
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 … Continue Reading »