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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Congratulations to 2025 Linguistics graduates

Congratulations to all of our spring 2025 UWM Linguistics graduates! BA: Payton Auel Kimberly Campos Melanie Choeun-La Emma Henkhaus Hannah Jones Cassandra Rice Preston Ruh Breanna Watson Luna Whelan MA: Victoria Baake PhD: Daniel Quigley

Update from Dylan Pearson BA 2014, MA 2016

We are thrilled to report that linguistics department alum Dylan Pearson (BA ’14, MA ’16) has recently completed his Ph.D in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at Indiana University. His research focuses on the sources of individual variation in hearing …

New article by Oh and Park

A new article by Sujin Oh (PhD 2024) and Hanyong Park has been published in Linguistic Research. It is titled, “The impact of native language on second language rhythm acquisition: Insights from a cross-linguistic and intra-language corpus study.”

Oh takes positions in Korea

Sujin Oh (PhD 2024) has taken up multiple positions in Korea and is currently teaching as a part-time lecturer at Soongsil University, Sejong University, and Kookmin University. She is also working as a part-time postdoctoral researcher at Seoul National University. …

Sean Weaver ’22 earns MPhil from Cambridge University

UWM Linguistics alum Sean Weaver (2022) has graduated from Cambridge University with an MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. He earned a Pass With Distinction, and his dissertation was titled “(Un)fit to purpose: A diachronic investigation of the development of ἵνα …

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