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.” …
Amal El Haimeur, who earned her Ph.D in Linguistics from UWM in 2019, has been promoted to tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Kansas University. Congratulations, Dr. El Haimeur!
Tessa Culleton (Linguistics BA 2022) has accepted a funded offer of admission to the doctoral program in linguistics at the University of Maryland, one of the top-ranked departments in the country. Congratulations, Tessa!
A paper by Jieun Lee (UWM PhD 2022), Dong Jin Kim, and Hanyong Park entitled “Native listeners’ perceptual assessments of native and foreign-accented speech and their associations with various speech properties” has been accepted for publication in the journal Linguistic …
Anne Pycha, Tessa Culleton (Linguistics BA 2022), and Jae Yung Song (Chung-Ang University and UWM) have just published a new article in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, The Role of Speech Style, Frequency, and Density in Recognition Memory for Spoken Words. …
A paper by doctoral student Dong Jin Kim, Okgi Kim (Ph.D 2022, Lecturer at Kyung Hee University and Chung-Ang University), and Associate Professor Hanyong Park entitled “Prosodic realization of identificational and contrastive focus in Korean multiple accusative constructions” has been …
Along with co-authors Angela Mesic and Nathon Breu from the Electa Quinney Institute, Tessa Culleton (Linguistics BA 2022) will present the paper “Gidozhibii’amawaanaanig Gidoshkigiminaanig – The Importance of Phonemic Awareness in Ojibwemowin to Support Early Literacy” at the 55th Algonquian …
Yahya Aldholmi (PhD 2018) has been promoted to Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. Congratulations, Yahya!
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!
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 …
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