Fleisher talks at Georgetown

Associate Professor Nick Fleisher gave an invited talk at Georgetown University earlier this month in their Linguistics Department’s Friday Research Talks series. The title of the talk was “The semantics and pragmatics of norm erosion.”

Oh and Park to present at LabPhon 19

The work of Sujin Oh and Hanyong Park has been accepted for presentation at the 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 19) to be held at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, from June 27 to 29, 2024. The title of their …

Lee, Kim, and Park paper in Linguistic Research

A paper by Jieun Lee (UWM PhD 2022), Dong Jin Kim, and Hanyong Park entitled “Native listeners’ perceptual assessments of native and foreign-accented speech and their associations with various speech properties” has been accepted for publication in the journal Linguistic …

Fleisher in LI and Proceedings of SALT

Two papers by Nick Fleisher were published recently: On Referential Parallelism and Compulsory Binding, published in the fall 2023 issue of Linguistic Inquiry Semifactives in Comparatives, published in the Proceedings of SALT 33

New publication by Pycha, Culleton, and Song

Anne Pycha, Tessa Culleton (Linguistics BA 2022), and Jae Yung Song (Chung-Ang University and UWM) have just published a new article in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, The Role of Speech Style, Frequency, and Density in Recognition Memory for Spoken Words. …

Park and Ruh receive SURF for Spring 2024

Professor Hanyong Park and undergraduate Preston Ruh have received a SURF (Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows) award for Spring 2024 from the Office of Undergraduate Research. Congrats, Dr. Park and Preston!

UWM at Linguistics Society of America

UWM was represented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, which took place January 3-7, 2024 in New York City. Aisha Fuddah presented joint work with Hamid Ouali, “Pseudo-sluicing in Hijazi Arabic: A Hybrid Account.” Anne …

UWM linguists to present at Symposium on Arabic Linguistics

Research by UWM linguists has been accepted for presentation at the 37th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, to be held in New York City on February 23-25, 2023. When Prosody Meets Syntax in Hijazi Arabic Gapping, by Aisha Fuddah, Hammad …

Pycha and co-authors in Journal of Laboratory Phonology

Anne Pycha and co-authors had a new article accepted for publication: Zellou, G., Pycha, A., and Chitoran, I. (in press, 2023). Use of gradient anticipatory nasal coarticulatory cues for lexical perception in French. Journal of Laboratory Phonology.

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