Ouali to appear in The Linguistic Review
Professor Hamid Ouali’s article entitled “On Dative Clitic Doubling as Applicative Morphology: Insights from Tamazight” has been accepted for publication in The Linguistic Review. Congratulations, Hamid!
Faculty News
UWM Linguists at LSA 2027
UWM Linguistics will be well represented at the 2027 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, taking place Jan 6–9 in San Francisco. The following papers have been accepted for presentation:
Starr publishes chapter in “New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition”
Faculty member Glenn Starr published a chapter in New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) Conference. The selection focuses on the role that inhibitory control plays in second …
Fleisher talks at UChicago
Faculty member Nick Fleisher was on the road last week to give a colloquium presentation on his current research at the University of Chicago Department of Linguistics, with a talk entitled “Something all its own: on English own possessives.”
Glenn Starr publishes new article in the Journal of Memory and Language
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 …
Glenn Starr featured in UWM L&S InFocus publication
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
Dong Jin Kim (PhD 2024) presents at ASA
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 …
Joy Alcorn (MA ’24) presents at Psychonomics Conference
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 …
Pycha presents at MidPhon 2025
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 Lee and Park
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 …