Linguistics doctoral student Yasser Albaty’s paper was accepted for presentation at the 2018 meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. His paper is entitled, “Modality in Arabic: a restructuring analysis”. Congratulations, Yasser!… Continue Reading »
Smith receives SURF award
Melanie Kristen Smith, a student of Linguistics and German, has received a “Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows” (SURF) award for the academic year 2017-18 from UWM’s Office for Undergraduate Research. The financial support provided by the SURF will allow … Continue Reading »
Schubilske receives SURF award
Linguistics major Krist Schubilske has received a “Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows” award from the Office for Undergraduate Research at UWM, for Fall 2017. The award provides funding to work as an RA for assistant professor Anne Pycha on a … Continue Reading »
Eckman Celebration
The department is honoring the career of Distinguished Professor Fred Eckman, as he prepares to retire at the end of the semester. There is a celebration this afternoon. To mark the occasion, the department declared today Fred Eckman Day in … Continue Reading »
Pycha presents at Workshop on Sound Change
On April 20, 2017, assistant professor Anne Pycha presented research at the 4th Workshop on Sound Change, at the University of Edinburgh. Her project, “Listeners attribute coarticulation on lax vowels to speaker height”, is a collaboration with Georgia Zellou of … Continue Reading »
UWM linguists at ASAL
UWM Linguistics is well-represented at the 31st Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, which gets under way this Thursday at the University of Oklahoma, with three talks by current faculty and students: Hamid Ouali and Yasser Albaty: “Restructuring in Arabic” Bader … Continue Reading »
UWM Linguistics Statement on Executive Order
We, the undersigned faculty of the Department of Linguistics of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, state our unequivocal condemnation of the immigration and travel ban enacted by President Trump on January 27, 2017, and affirm our support for our students affected … Continue Reading »
Aldholmi and Park present at ASA
Doctoral student Yahya Aldholmi and Associate Professor Hanyong Park are presenting their work, “Perception of speech rate in speech rate perception” at the 172nd meeting of the Acoustical Society in Honolulu this week. Dr. Park is also presenting “Speaker similarity, … Continue Reading »
UWM linguists at SSWAMP
UWM Linguistics will be well represented at this year’s SSWAMP, hosted by Northwestern University. Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal will present a talk entitled “Evidential qad in Standard Arabic.” And Nick Fleisher will present the invited faculty talk, entitled “Ellipsis licensing via alternatives.”… Continue Reading »
Pycha at AMP
Anne Pycha is off to Los Angeles for the 2016 Annual Meeting on Phonology at USC. Her poster is entitled “Are suffixed words different? Evidence from a modified lexical decision task.”… Continue Reading »