Last weekend, Joy Alcorn (MA 2024) presented a poster at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society in Denver, Colorado. Her poster was entitled, “Differences in working memory strategies between monolinguals and bilinguals demonstrated by performance on a dual-task …
Faculty member Anne Pycha travelled to Indiana University to present at the 30th annual Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology conference. Her poster was entitled, “Comparing implicit phonological knowledge of humans and LLMs.”
Two new articles by Jieun Lee (PhD 2022) and Hanyong Park have just been published: “Can lower inhibitory control lead to better second language phonological contrast learning” in Linguistic Research, “The role of speaking rates in High Variability Phonetic Training” in Phonetics …
Congratulations to Reem Alshammeri, whose paper ‘Ditransitive Constructions in Najdi Arabic’ has been accepted for an in-person poster presentation at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting, to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, in January 2026.
Daniel Quigley (PhD 2025) is off to Indiana University, where he will be a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Possible Minds. Daniel writes, “I will be working on semantics, various representations of meaning in language and semiotics, and conversation …
Several students and faculty members received SURF (Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows) awards this semester. Kenji Rackoff received a SURF award to work on a project entitled “The Role of Cognitive Abilities in Second Language Sound Learning,” under the direction …
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!