Nick Fleisher presented his research in progress at the University of Maryland’s Meaning Meeting last week, and will be at Yale in May to present a paper entitled “Semifactives in comparatives” at this year’s Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) conference.… Continue Reading »
UWM linguists at ASA
Three abstracts from the UWM Linguistics Department were accepted for presentation at the upcoming 184th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Chicago this May: “Perceived talker variability in high-variability perceptual training” by Hanyong Park & Jieun Lee (PhD … Continue Reading »
Ouali appointed to editorial board; will give invited lectures
Professor Hamid Ouali was recently appointed to serve on the editorial board of Studies in Arabic Linguistics series published by John Benjamins: https://benjamins.com/catalog/sal Professor Ouali has also accepted two invitations for lectures; the first is the annual lecture for the … Continue Reading »
Albuarabi and Park in Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics
Saja Albuarabi (PhD 2021) and Hanyong Park have just published an article entitled “Production and perception of consonant clusters in nonwords by Southern Iraqi and Najdi Speakers” in Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics 34.… Continue Reading »
Fuddah and Ouali accepted to ASAL 36
Aisha Fuddah and Hamid Ouali’s paper entitled “Preposition Stranding in Hijazi Arabic Sluicing” has been accepted for presentation at the 36th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics to be held at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst on March 24-26, 2023. More information … Continue Reading »
Park and Ruh receive SURF Award for Spring 2023
Associate Professor Hanyong Park and undergraduate student Preston Ruh have received a SURF Award for Spring 2023. SURF awards support undergraduate students who are working on research projects with faculty. Congratulations, Dr. Park and Preston!… Continue Reading »
Song, Pycha, and Culleton publish new article in Frontiers in Communication
Jae Yung Song, Anne Pycha, and Tessa Culleton have just published a new article in the journal Frontiers in Communication. The research examines how Korean L2 speakers of English interact with Amazon Alexa, and how they adjust their vowel productions … Continue Reading »
Aldholmi & Pycha to appear in Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
The article “Segmental contributions to the intelligibility of Arabic sentences”, by Yahya Aldholmi (PhD 2018) and Anne Pycha, has been accepted for publication in the journal Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics. The article is based on Dr. Aldholmi’s dissertation research, … Continue Reading »
Two Linguistics SURF awards
Two Linguistics projects have been awarded funding to support undergraduate research as part of UWM’s SURF program for fall 2022: Preston Ruh and Hanyong Park: “Foreign Accent in Consonant Clusters” Sean Weaver and Glenn Starr: “L2 Learner Receptivity to Scalar … Continue Reading »
Pycha receives UWM research award
Associate Professor Anne Pycha has been awarded the 2022 UWM Office of Research/UWM Foundation Research Award. Congratulations, Dr. Pycha!… Continue Reading »