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 »
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 »