Amal El Haimeur (PhD 2019) has accepted a position as Assistant Teaching Professor and Coordinator of the Arabic Program in the Department of African and African-American Studies at the University of Kansas. Congratulations, Amal!… Continue Reading »
Moran defends MA thesis
Congratulations to Joseph Moran, who successfully defended his master’s thesis today!… Continue Reading »
Albuarabi and Althubyani pass prelims
Congratulations to Saja Albuarabi and Ruqayyah Althubyani, both of whom passed their doctoral preliminary exams today!… Continue Reading »
Abu Helal presents at SLA Symposium
Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal presented a paper at the 2019 SLA Symposium, held last weekend at UW-Madison. His paper was entitled “On the L2 acquisition of embedded tense in before-clauses: a bi-directional study of truth conditional mismatch.”… Continue Reading »
Kim presents at ILLS
Linguistics Ph.D. student Okgi Kim is presenting a paper at the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society conference this weekend. His paper is entitled “Gapless right dislocation in Korean as remnant-VP movement.”… Continue Reading »
Abu Helal defends dissertation
On Tuesday, April 23, 2019, Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal successfully defended his dissertation, “Logical Form in the Second Language: An Investigation into Quantification in Interlanguage.” Congratulations, Dr. Abu Helal!… Continue Reading »
Sarah Ransom-Laud ’18 to University of Texas, Austin
UWM linguistics graduate Sarah Ransom-Laud (formerly Sarah Gilbert), class of 2018, has accepted a funded offer to the Ph.D program in linguistics at the University of Texas, Austin. Congratulations, Sarah!… Continue Reading »
El Haimeur defends dissertation
On Tuesday, April 16, 2019, Amal El Haimeur successfully defended her dissertation, “The Acquisition of Morphology in Moroccan Heritage Speakers in France.” Congratulations, Dr. El Haimeur!… Continue Reading »
Song and Eckman in Language Acquisition
Jae Yung Song and Fred Eckman’s paper “Covert contrasts in the acquisition of English high front vowels by native speakers of Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish” has just been published in Language Acquisition.… Continue Reading »
Korb receives FLAS for Japanese
Linguistics major Stephanie Korb has received an academic year Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) award to study Japanese in Japan for the 2019–20 academic year. Congratulations, Stephanie!… Continue Reading »