Associate Professor Nick Fleisher will give invited talks at MIT on Friday, March 6 and at Rutgers University on Tuesday, March 10, on his ongoing research on binding and ellipsis.… Continue Reading »
UWM at 34th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
UWM Linguistics will be well represented at the upcoming 34th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics at the University of Arizona this weekend, with the following talks: Saja Albuarabi & Hanyong Park: Production and Perception of Consonant Clusters in Nonwords by … Continue Reading »
Hamid Ouali at Georgetown University
Associate Professor Hamid Ouali gave an invited talk at Georgetown University on Friday February 21. The title of the talk was: “On the correlation between tense and verb movement in Arabic.” Congratulations, Professor Ouali!… Continue Reading »
Pattillo in Wisconsin Englishes Project
Kelsie Pattillo has a new article on sociolinguistic variation in Wisconsin, published as part of the Wisconsin Englishes Project. The article, entitled “I bought a bag of bagels,” examines sociolinguistic variation in vowel articulation in the word bag across age … Continue Reading »
Pattillo to appear in Anthropological Linguistics
Kelsie Pattillo’s article, “Limb term naming patterns in South American languages,” has been accepted for publication in Anthropological Linguistics. Congratulations, Kelsie!… Continue Reading »
Song and Eckman in Language Acquisition
Jae Yung Song and Fred Eckman’s paper “Covert contrasts in the acquisition of English high front vowels by native speakers of Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish” has just been published in Language Acquisition.… Continue Reading »
Ouali gives two invited talks
Associate Professor Hamid Ouali recently gave a pair of invited talks. The first, entitled “On Tense and Aspect in Tamazight,” was delivered at the Workshop on Amazigh Languages at McGill University. The second, entitled “On the Progressive in Arabic,” was … Continue Reading »
Pycha gives invited talk at Princeton Phonology Forum
This weekend (April 6, 2019), associate professor Anne Pycha is an invited speaker at the Princeton Phonology Forum at Princeton University. The title of her talk is “Perception and memory of individual morphemes in spoken words: Two experiments”.… Continue Reading »
Pattillo in volume on Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies
Kelsie Pattillo has a paper in a forthcoming volume on crosslinguistic studies of embodiment in language: Pattillo, Kelsie. Forthcoming. From head to toe: How languages extend the head to name body parts. In Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The ‘Head’, ed. … Continue Reading »
Albaty and Ouali in Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics
Yasser Albaty and Hamid Ouali’s paper entitled “Restructuring and Control in Arabic” has been accepted for publication Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics.… Continue Reading »