Congratulations to UWM Linguistics alum Mohammed Abuhaib (PhD 2020), who is now Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the English Department at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University.… Continue Reading »
Pattillo and Davis featured in Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel newspaper
Visiting scholar Kelsie Pattillo and Professor Garry Davis are featured in today’s edition of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, in an article titled, Why Wisconsin’s dialect, pronunciations are unique — and even vary within the state’s borders. Congratulations, Dr. Pattillo and Dr. Davis! … Continue Reading »
Robin Fritche featured in L&S In Focus
Doctoral student Robin Fritche was featured on the cover story of L&S In Focus. The article highlights her research on child-directed speech, which Fritche recently published in The Journal of Phonetics, along with co-authors Jae Yung Song (UWM) and Stefanie … Continue Reading »
Park and Ruh receive SURF award
Associate Professor Hanyong Park received a SURF award from the Office of Undergraduate Research, to work with first-year student Preston Ruh. Congratulations, Professor Park and Preston!… Continue Reading »
Alwahibee promoted to assistant professor
Good news from UWM Linguistics alum Turki Alwahibee (PhD 2020), who is now an assistant professor in the College of Languages and Translation at Al-Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University. Congratulations, Turki!… Continue Reading »
Culleton to present at Interspeech 2021
Undergraduate Tessa Culleton has been accepted to the “Young Female Researchers in Speech Workshop” to be held at the Interspeech Conference in August 2021. At the conference, Tessa will present her joint research with professors Jae Yung Song and Anne … Continue Reading »
Clark named 2021 UWM Teaching Fellow
Linguistics doctoral student Lauren Clark is a winner of the 2021 UWM Teaching Fellow Award. There were only six winners across all of UWM. Congratulations on the significant accomplishment, Lauren!… Continue Reading »
Kim to present at upcoming conferences
Okgi Kim will present joint work with Jong-Bok Kim on negative wh-constructions in Korean at the 29th Joint Conference on Linguistics and Language Processing (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) and at Korean Linguistics in Crosslinguistic Context (Cornell University).… Continue Reading »
Fritche and Song published in Journal of Phonetics
UWM doctoral student Robin Fritche and Associate Professor Jae Yung Song, along with co-author Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, just published an article in Journal of Phonetics. The article is titled, Do adults produce phonetic variants of /t/ less often in speech to children? Congratulations, … Continue Reading »
Albuarabi defends dissertation
Saja Albuarabi has successfully defended her dissertation, entitled “The Syntax of Negation in Iraqi Arabic”. Congratulations, Dr. Albuarabi!… Continue Reading »