Dr. Pattillo named Digital Humanities Fellow
Linguistics department lecturer Kelsie Pattillo has been named a Digital Humanities Lab Teaching Fellow for the 2018-1019 school year. As part of the award, Kelsie will receive training to use tools from the Digital Humanities Lab and then incorporate these tools … Continue Reading »
Fleisher in Semantics and Pragmatics
The final version of associate professor Nicholas Fleisher’s article “Comparing theories of quantifiers in than clauses: Lessons from downward-entailing differentials” has been published in Semantics and Pragmatics.… Continue Reading »
Ouali publishes new book
UWM linguistics associate professor Hamid Ouali just published a new edited volume, Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIX. Congratulations, Professor Ouali!… Continue Reading »
Pycha in Scientific American
Assistant Professor Anne Pycha has published “Why click speech is rare” in the December issue of Scientific American.… Continue Reading »
Fleisher talks in Gothenburg
Associate professor Nicholas Fleisher is at Gothenburg University today presenting on research in progress, under the title “Quantifiers in comparatives: parallels with embedded questions.”… Continue Reading »
Fleisher talks in Stockholm
Associate professor Nicholas Fleisher is giving a talk in the Linguistics Department at Stockholm University today, entitled “On the interpretation of quantifiers in comparative clauses: parallels with embedded questions.”… Continue Reading »
Pycha publishes in Glossa
Assistant professor Anne Pycha’s article “A new test for exemplar theory: Varying versus non-varying words in Spanish” appeared today in the journal Glossa. Students Faviola Valadez and Laura Mendoza contributed to this project as research assistants.… Continue Reading »
Lee accepted to present at Mid-Phon
Linguistics doctoral student Jieun Lee has been accepted to present at the 22nd Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology Conference at Ohio State. Her presentation, co-authored with Associate Professor Hanyong Park, is entitled “The role of speech rate in high phonetic variability … Continue Reading »
Bagherzadeh accepted to present at SLRF
Linguistics doctoral student Hamideh Bagherzadeh had two abstracts accepted for presentation at the Second Language Research Forum, to take place at Ohio State University in October 2017. The titles are “Effect of Pot-Luck, Innovative Technique of Project-Based Learning, On Collaboration … Continue Reading »