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 »
UWM linguists at MidPhon23
We will have two conference presentations at the 23rd Annual Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology (MidPhon23) Conference at Northwestern University from October 5 to 6, 2018. “Perceived talker similarity in perceptual training of Korean laryngeal contrasts” – Hanyong Park “Some candidates … Continue Reading »
UWM linguists at PSLLT
We will have two conference presentations at the 10th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching (PSLLT) conference at Iowa State University from September 6 to 8, 2018. “Vowel epenthesis in Korean English learners’ pronunciation: at the crossroads of perception, … Continue Reading »
Photos from Undergraduate Research Symposium
Dr. Pattillo named Digital Humanities Fellow
Linguistics department lecturer Kelsie Pattillo has been named a Digital Humanities Lab Teaching Fellow for the 2018-1019 school year. As part of the award, Kelsie will receive training to use tools from the Digital Humanities Lab and then incorporate these tools … Continue Reading »
Fleisher in Semantics and Pragmatics
The final version of associate professor Nicholas Fleisher’s article “Comparing theories of quantifiers in than clauses: Lessons from downward-entailing differentials” has been published in Semantics and Pragmatics.… Continue Reading »