Faculty member Hanyong Park and linguistics undergraduate Preston Ruh have received a SURF award for the Fall 2023 semester. Sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate research, SURF awards provide support for undergraduates to engage directly in research projects under the … Continue Reading »
Garry Davis appears in Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
In the 8/22/23 edition of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Professor Garry Davis was quoted several times in an article about unique expressions that occur in Wisconsin English, such as parking ramp and ainta. The complete article is entitled “From parking ramp … Continue Reading »
New publications by Anne Pycha and colleagues
Faculty member Anne Pycha, along with colleagues at UC Davis, have two new publications: Zellou, G., Cohn, M., and Pycha, A. (in press). The effect of listener beliefs on perceptual learning. Language. Zellou, G., Pycha, A., and Cohn, M. (2023). The perception … Continue Reading »
Park and Ruh receive summer SURF award
Associate Professor Hanyong Park and linguistics undergraduate Preston Ruh have received a SURF (Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows) award for summer 2023, for the project “Native Language Category Precision in Second Language Speech Learning.” Congratulations, Dr. Park and Preston!… Continue Reading »
Park and Lee at HISPhonCog
Hanyong Park and Jieun Lee (PhD 2022) will be presenting a paper entitled “Within-category cue sensitivity in native language perception and its relationship to non-native phonological contrast learning” at the upcoming Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of … Continue Reading »
Fleisher at Maryland and SALT
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 »