Professor Garry Davis is retiring from the faculty after 39 years at UWM. Beyond his many scholarly contributions in historical linguistics, Germanic linguistics, and southeast Asian linguistics, he has been a valued colleague, mentor, advisor, and department chair. We wish …
Hanyong Park and collaborators Kenneth de Jong (Indiana University), Yu-Jung Lin (College of the Holy Cross), and Yen-Chen Hao (University of Tennessee) have published a new article in the Journal of Phonetics, titled “Mapping to perceptual identification in Mandarin learners of …
Affiliated faculty members Jae Yung Song and Fred Eckman recently published their paper “The relationship between L2 learners’ production and perception of English vowels: The role of native-speaker acoustic patterns in production” in the journal of Second Language Research. Congratulations, …
On Friday, April 4, 2025, UWM Linguistics Department hosted its annual “Five Minute” talks, in which researchers presented their work in five-minute slots. Undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty all participated. The event was a great success!
Linguistics undergraduate Charles Rojas, along with collaborators Jae Yung Song and Anne Pycha, has published a new article in Frontiers in Psychology. The title is “Factors modulating perception and production of speech by AI tools: a test case of Amazon Alexa and …
A new article by Sujin Oh (PhD 2024) and Hanyong Park has been published in Linguistic Research. It is titled, “The impact of native language on second language rhythm acquisition: Insights from a cross-linguistic and intra-language corpus study.”
For this month’s P-group, Anne Pycha presented “Factors modulating perception and production of speech by AI assistants: A test case of Amazon Alexa and Polly”, which is joint research with Jae Yung Song and Charles Rojas. Thanks to all who …
Several Linguistics faculty have been awarded SURF funding to support undergraduate research this fall: Anne Pycha will be working with Emma Henkhaus and Cassie Rice Glenn Starr will be working with Preston Ruh Jae Yung Song and Fred Eckman will …
Faculty member Glenn Starr, along with co-author Emilie Destruel, has a new publication in Second Language Research, entitled, “A bidirectional study in L2 acquisition of pragmatics: The case of (un-)bounded adjectival scales”. Congratulations, Dr. Starr!
Research conducted by undergraduate Charles Rojas was featured in the most recent issue of the L&S In Focus newsletter. The research, in collaboration with Jae Yung Song and Anne Pycha, examines how voice-AI assistants like Alexa respond to words with …