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 … Continue Reading »
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 … Continue Reading »
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 … Continue Reading »
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 … Continue Reading »
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… Continue Reading »
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 … Continue Reading »
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.”… Continue Reading »
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. … Continue Reading »
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 … Continue Reading »
Lee and Park publish in Journal of Phonetics
A new article by Jieun Lee (PhD 2022) and Hanyong Park has just been published in the Journal of Phonetics. It is titled “Acoustic cue sensitivity in the perception of native category and their relation non nonnative phonological contrast learning.” … Continue Reading »