Assistant professor Anne Pycha’s article “A new test for exemplar theory: Varying versus non-varying words in Spanish” appeared today in the journal Glossa. Students Faviola Valadez and Laura Mendoza contributed to this project as research assistants.… Continue Reading »
Lee accepted to present at Mid-Phon
Linguistics doctoral student Jieun Lee has been accepted to present at the 22nd Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology Conference at Ohio State. Her presentation, co-authored with Associate Professor Hanyong Park, is entitled “The role of speech rate in high phonetic variability … Continue Reading »
Bagherzadeh accepted to present at SLRF
Linguistics doctoral student Hamideh Bagherzadeh had two abstracts accepted for presentation at the Second Language Research Forum, to take place at Ohio State University in October 2017. The titles are “Effect of Pot-Luck, Innovative Technique of Project-Based Learning, On Collaboration … Continue Reading »
Albaty accepted to present at LSA 2018
Linguistics doctoral student Yasser Albaty’s paper was accepted for presentation at the 2018 meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. His paper is entitled, “Modality in Arabic: a restructuring analysis”. Congratulations, Yasser!… Continue Reading »
Smith receives SURF award
Melanie Kristen Smith, a student of Linguistics and German, has received a “Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows” (SURF) award for the academic year 2017-18 from UWM’s Office for Undergraduate Research. The financial support provided by the SURF will allow … Continue Reading »
Schubilske receives SURF award
Linguistics major Krist Schubilske has received a “Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows” award from the Office for Undergraduate Research at UWM, for Fall 2017. The award provides funding to work as an RA for assistant professor Anne Pycha on a … Continue Reading »
Eckman Celebration
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 »