Dr. Glenn Starr together with his colleague Dr. Greta Mazzaggio from the University of Florence recently published the article “The semantics behind the inference: How first language quantifier systems shape scalar reasoning in second language learners” in the Journal of Memory …
Faculty member Glenn Starr was featured in the most recent issue of UWM L&S InFocus publication. Congratulations, Dr. Starr! We need “some” context: UWM linguist’s research reveals cognitive patterns in language
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 …
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 …
Faculty member Anne Pycha travelled to Indiana University to present at the 30th annual Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology conference. Her poster was entitled, “Comparing implicit phonological knowledge of humans and LLMs.”
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 …
Several students and faculty members received SURF (Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows) awards this semester. Kenji Rackoff received a SURF award to work on a project entitled “The Role of Cognitive Abilities in Second Language Sound Learning,” under the direction …
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 …
Professor Garry Davis is retiring from the faculty after 39 years at UWM. Beyond his many scholarly contributions in historical linguistics, Germanic linguistics, and southeast Asian linguistics, he has been a valued colleague, mentor, advisor, and department chair. We wish …
Hanyong Park and collaborators Kenneth de Jong (Indiana University), Yu-Jung Lin (College of the Holy Cross), and Yen-Chen Hao (University of Tennessee) have published a new article in the Journal of Phonetics, titled “Mapping to perceptual identification in Mandarin learners of …
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