Along with UC Davis co-authors Michelle Cohn and Georgia Zellou, Anne Pycha just published a new article in the journal Frontiers in Communication. The title is “Face-masked speech intelligibility: The influence of speaking style, visual information, and background noise.”… Continue Reading »
Jieun Lee defends dissertation
On Thursday May 5, Jieun Lee successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “Individual differences in non-native phonological contrast learning: the role of perceptual sensitivity to sub-phonemic variation in native categories”. Congratulations, Dr. Lee!… Continue Reading »
Congratulations to Tessa Culleton
At the UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 29, Tessa Culleton earned the Outstanding Presentation Award for her work “Low Density and Clear Speech Make Words More Memorable,” in collaboration with Drs. Jae Yung Song and Anne Pycha. Congratulations, Tessa!… Continue Reading »
Students present at Undergraduate Research Symposium
Congratulations to Annika Huber, Preston Ruh, and Tessa Culleton! These undergraduates, in collaboration with their faculty advisors, presented their research on April 29 at the UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium.… Continue Reading »
Okgi Kim defends doctoral dissertation
Doctoral student Okgi Kim successfully defended his dissertation, “The syntax and semantics of non-standard wh-constructions in Korean.” Congratulations, Dr. Kim!… Continue Reading »
Dr. Fleisher’s report featured in New York Times
A report that was co-authored by Associate Professor Nick Fleisher was featured on the front page of today’s New York Times. The report, issued by the American Association of University Professors, focuses on the North Carolina legislature’s influence over operations … Continue Reading »
Saad Alshahrani defends doctoral dissertation
Doctoral student Saad Alshahrani successfully defended his dissertation, “Syllable structure and phonological processes of Southern Najdi Arabic: An Optimality Theoretic Model.” Congratulations, Dr. Alshahrani!… Continue Reading »
Sara Issa accepted as Fellow to C21 Story Experience
UWM Linguistics doctoral student Sara Issa has been accepted as a 2022-2023 Fellow for the C21 Story Experience program. Fellows work in partnership with Milwaukee-based organizations to facilitate story-sharing and community building. Congratulations, Sara!… Continue Reading »
Moran to UW-Madison
Congratulations to UWM Linguistics alum Joe Moran (MA 2019), who is headed to UW-Madison this fall to begin the PhD program in English Language and Linguistics!… Continue Reading »
Fellowship to Yunhui Kim
Linguistics Ph.D. student Yunhui Kim has been awarded a Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship for 2022-23 by the UWM Graduate School. Congratulations, Yunhui!… Continue Reading »