UWM Linguistics will be well represented at the upcoming 34th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics at the University of Arizona this weekend, with the following talks: Saja Albuarabi & Hanyong Park: Production and Perception of Consonant Clusters in Nonwords by … Continue Reading »
Pattillo in Wisconsin Englishes Project
Kelsie Pattillo has a new article on sociolinguistic variation in Wisconsin, published as part of the Wisconsin Englishes Project. The article, entitled “I bought a bag of bagels,” examines sociolinguistic variation in vowel articulation in the word bag across age … Continue Reading »
Alumni update from Tanner LeTourneau (MA 2018)
UWM Linguistics alum (MA 2018) Tanner LeTourneau sent the following update: “I got a job as a business ESL teacher and as a methodologist for my company (James Cook Languages) in Prague, Czech Republic. I had a nice opportunity to … Continue Reading »
Albaty to Qassim University
Yasser Albaty (PhD 2019) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of English and Linguistics at Qassim University, Saudi Arabia. Congratulations, Yasser!… Continue Reading »
Abu Helal to Middle East University
Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal (PhD 2019) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of the English Language and Literature at Middle East University in Amman, Jordan. Congratulations, Abdel-Rahman!… Continue Reading »
Pattillo to appear in Anthropological Linguistics
Kelsie Pattillo’s article, “Limb term naming patterns in South American languages,” has been accepted for publication in Anthropological Linguistics. Congratulations, Kelsie!… Continue Reading »
El Haimeur to Kansas
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 »
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 »
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 »