Dong Jin Kim (PhD, 2024) and Hanyong Park presented their research last week at the Language Learning roundtable conference, Cognitive Neuroscience of Individual Differences in Adult Language Learning (CogNeuroIDALL): Future directions, held at the University of Illinois Chicago. Their poster …
Congratulations to all of our spring 2025 UWM Linguistics graduates! BA: Payton Auel Kimberly Campos Melanie Choeun-La Emma Henkhaus Hannah Jones Cassandra Rice Preston Ruh Breanna Watson Luna Whelan MA: Victoria Baake PhD: Daniel Quigley
Professor Garry Davis is retiring from the faculty after 39 years at UWM. Beyond his many scholarly contributions in historical linguistics, Germanic linguistics, and southeast Asian linguistics, he has been a valued colleague, mentor, advisor, and department chair. We wish …
Victoria Baake successfully defended her MA paper, Generalizability Across Genders using High Variability Phonetic Training. Congratulations, Victoria!
Daniel Quigley this morning successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “Neurosymbolic Semantics.” Congratulations, Dr. Quigley!
Hanyong Park and collaborators Kenneth de Jong (Indiana University), Yu-Jung Lin (College of the Holy Cross), and Yen-Chen Hao (University of Tennessee) have published a new article in the Journal of Phonetics, titled “Mapping to perceptual identification in Mandarin learners of …
Congratulations to linguistics majors Isa Bright and Anna Westhoff, who were inducted yesterday into Phi Beta Kappa, America’s most prestigious academic honor society. Their fellow inductee was Chancellor Mark Mone! Congratulations on your hard work, Isa and Anna!
Laura Kiskunas (MA 2017) has been accepted into the Speech and Hearing Sciences PhD program at the University of Iowa. Starting in the fall of 2025, she will be working with Professors Inyong Choi and Joel Berger, conducting research with …
Affiliated faculty members Jae Yung Song and Fred Eckman recently published their paper “The relationship between L2 learners’ production and perception of English vowels: The role of native-speaker acoustic patterns in production” in the journal of Second Language Research. Congratulations, …
On Friday, April 4, 2025, UWM Linguistics Department hosted its annual “Five Minute” talks, in which researchers presented their work in five-minute slots. Undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty all participated. The event was a great success!
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