Dong Jin Kim is coauthor, with Taehong Cho and Sahyang Kim, of “Prosodic strengthening in reference to the lexical pitch accent system in South Kyungsang Korean,” published in the latest issue of The Linguistic Review.… Continue Reading »
Bagherzadeh wins Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship
Congratulations to Hamideh Bagherzadeh, who has been awarded a Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship for 2019-20 from the UWM Graduate School.… Continue Reading »
Abu Helal in PLC proceedings
Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal’s article, “On dimensional property concepts in Levantine Arabic: Evidence for uniformitarianism,” has been published in the Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Penn Linguistics Conference (University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 25).… Continue Reading »
Pattillo, Clark, and Lee to present at WiGL
Linguistics department lecturer Kelsie Pattillo and PhD students Lauren Clark and Jieun Lee will present their paper “Dialectology, prevelar raising, and collaborative language research in the undergraduate classroom” at the 16th Workshop in General Linguistics at UW-Madison in March. The … Continue Reading »
Mar develops US’s first law enforcement Mandarin course
UWM Linguistics alumna Li-Ya Mar (PhD 2016) has developed the US’s first Mandarin course for law enforcement officers. Her work with Houston Police and the University of St. Thomas has been covered by the Houston Chronicle, Houston Public Media, and … Continue Reading »
Aldholmi successfully defends dissertation
On November 27, 2018, UWM linguistics graduate student Yahya Aldholmi successfully defended his Ph.D dissertation “Segmental Contributions to Speech Intelligibility in Nonconcatenative vs. Concatenative Languages”. Congratulations, Dr. Aldholmi!… Continue Reading »
Pattillo in volume on Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies
Kelsie Pattillo has a paper in a forthcoming volume on crosslinguistic studies of embodiment in language: Pattillo, Kelsie. Forthcoming. From head to toe: How languages extend the head to name body parts. In Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The ‘Head’, ed. … Continue Reading »
Albaty and Ouali in Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics
Yasser Albaty and Hamid Ouali’s paper entitled “Restructuring and Control in Arabic” has been accepted for publication Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics.… Continue Reading »
UWM linguists at MidPhon23
We will have two conference presentations at the 23rd Annual Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology (MidPhon23) Conference at Northwestern University from October 5 to 6, 2018. “Perceived talker similarity in perceptual training of Korean laryngeal contrasts” – Hanyong Park “Some candidates … Continue Reading »
UWM linguists at PSLLT
We will have two conference presentations at the 10th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching (PSLLT) conference at Iowa State University from September 6 to 8, 2018. “Vowel epenthesis in Korean English learners’ pronunciation: at the crossroads of perception, … Continue Reading »