The department is honoring the career of Distinguished Professor Fred Eckman, as he prepares to retire at the end of the semester. There is a celebration this afternoon. To mark the occasion, the department declared today Fred Eckman Day in … Continue Reading »
Pycha presents at Workshop on Sound Change
On April 20, 2017, assistant professor Anne Pycha presented research at the 4th Workshop on Sound Change, at the University of Edinburgh. Her project, “Listeners attribute coarticulation on lax vowels to speaker height”, is a collaboration with Georgia Zellou of … Continue Reading »
UWM linguists at ASAL
UWM Linguistics is well-represented at the 31st Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, which gets under way this Thursday at the University of Oklahoma, with three talks by current faculty and students: Hamid Ouali and Yasser Albaty: “Restructuring in Arabic” Bader … Continue Reading »
UWM Linguistics Statement on Executive Order
We, the undersigned faculty of the Department of Linguistics of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, state our unequivocal condemnation of the immigration and travel ban enacted by President Trump on January 27, 2017, and affirm our support for our students affected … Continue Reading »
Aldholmi and Park present at ASA
Doctoral student Yahya Aldholmi and Associate Professor Hanyong Park are presenting their work, “Perception of speech rate in speech rate perception” at the 172nd meeting of the Acoustical Society in Honolulu this week. Dr. Park is also presenting “Speaker similarity, … Continue Reading »
UWM linguists at SSWAMP
UWM Linguistics will be well represented at this year’s SSWAMP, hosted by Northwestern University. Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal will present a talk entitled “Evidential qad in Standard Arabic.” And Nick Fleisher will present the invited faculty talk, entitled “Ellipsis licensing via alternatives.”… Continue Reading »
Pycha at AMP
Anne Pycha is off to Los Angeles for the 2016 Annual Meeting on Phonology at USC. Her poster is entitled “Are suffixed words different? Evidence from a modified lexical decision task.”… Continue Reading »
UWM linguists at MidPhon 21
UWM will be well represented at MidPhon 21 (the 21st Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference), which begins tomorrow at Michigan State University. Here is a list of presenters from UWM Linguistics: Yahya Aldholmi and Hanyong Park: “Arabic Speakers’ ‘false’ gemination of … Continue Reading »
Tenure and promotion for Fleisher, Park, Song
Congratulations to Nick Fleisher, Hanyong Park, and Jae Yung Song, whose promotions to associate professor with tenure (effective fall 2016) were approved by the Board of Regents this past Friday!… Continue Reading »
Al Lababidi to Florida State University
UWM Linguistics doctoral student Zafer Al Lababidi has accepted a teaching faculty position in the Department of Modern Languages at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Congratulations, Zafer!… Continue Reading »