Yahya Aldholmi (PhD 2018) has been promoted to Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. Congratulations, Yahya!… Continue Reading »
Sean Weaver will pursue MPhil in Cambridge
Recent graduate Sean Weaver (UWM 2022) has an accepted an offer to pursue an MPhil degree in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He will start in the fall of 2023. Congratulations, Sean!… Continue Reading »
Park and Lee at HISPhonCog
Hanyong Park and Jieun Lee (PhD 2022) will be presenting a paper entitled “Within-category cue sensitivity in native language perception and its relationship to non-native phonological contrast learning” at the upcoming Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of … Continue Reading »
UWM linguists at ASA
Three abstracts from the UWM Linguistics Department were accepted for presentation at the upcoming 184th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Chicago this May: “Perceived talker variability in high-variability perceptual training” by Hanyong Park & Jieun Lee (PhD … Continue Reading »
Update from Laura Kiskunas (MA 2017)
Laura Kiskunas (MA 2017) writes that she now at the University of Iowa, where she is a full-time research assistant/lab manager. She manages and runs the EEG and PET studies for cochlear implant research, and works with Professors Inyong Choi … Continue Reading »
Albuarabi and Park in Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics
Saja Albuarabi (PhD 2021) and Hanyong Park have just published an article entitled “Production and perception of consonant clusters in nonwords by Southern Iraqi and Najdi Speakers” in Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics 34.… Continue Reading »
Congratulations to Kelsie Pattillo (PhD 2014)
Kelsie Pattillo (PhD 2014) has a new volume published, entitled Embodiment in Cross-linguistic Studies: The ‘Face’. Dr. Pattillo co-edited the volume and wrote two chapters for it. Congratulations, Dr. Pattillo!… Continue Reading »
Saad Alshahrani promoted to Assistant Professor
Saad Alshahrani (PhD 2022) has been promoted to Assistant Professor at the English Department of Bisha University in Saudi Arabia. Congratulations, Dr. Alshahrani!… Continue Reading »
Alumna Samantha Beaver (2015) publishes book series
UWM Linguistics alumna Samantha Beaver (2015) has written a series of five books, Idioms for Inclusivity: Fostering Belonging with Language, which will be published by Routledge in February 2023. Wow, congratulations, Samantha! www.routledge.com/9781032293448 www.routledge.com/9781032293400 www.routledge.com/9781032293479 www.routledge.com/9781032293493 www.routledge.com/9781032293516… Continue Reading »
Aleese Block (UWM 2015) accepts post-doctoral position
We are thrilled to announce that Aleese Block (UWM 2015), who is currently finishing her Ph.D in Linguistics at UC Davis, has just accepted a post-doctoral fellowship at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, starting in April 2023. Congratulations, Aleese!… Continue Reading »