Doctoral student Rozan Al Ghamdi successfully defended her PhD dissertation entitled, “Evolution of Phonological and Morphological Features in the Ghamdi Arabic Dialect: A Contemporary Analysis of Vowel Harmony and Gender Distinction.” Congratulations, Dr. Al Ghamdi!… Continue Reading »
P-group presentation on Al assistants
For this month’s P-group, Anne Pycha presented “Factors modulating perception and production of speech by AI assistants: A test case of Amazon Alexa and Polly”, which is joint research with Jae Yung Song and Charles Rojas. Thanks to all who … Continue Reading »
Issa and Alruwais present at MidPhon 2024
Doctoral students Sara Issa and Amirah Alruwais presented their research last weekend at the 2024 Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Sara Issa’s poster, co-authored with faculty member Anne Pycha, was titled “Artificial Intelligence … Continue Reading »
Oh takes positions in Korea
Sujin Oh (PhD 2024) has taken up multiple positions in Korea and is currently teaching as a part-time lecturer at Soongsil University, Sejong University, and Kookmin University. She is also working as a part-time postdoctoral researcher at Seoul National University. … Continue Reading »
Linguists win SURF funding
Several Linguistics faculty have been awarded SURF funding to support undergraduate research this fall: Anne Pycha will be working with Emma Henkhaus and Cassie Rice Glenn Starr will be working with Preston Ruh Jae Yung Song and Fred Eckman will … Continue Reading »
Fuddah to present at LSA
Doctoral student Aisha Fuddah’s abstract entitled “Overt polarity in Hijazi Arabic” has been accepted for presentation as a talk at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Philadelphia in January. Congratulations, Aisha!… Continue Reading »
New publication by Glenn Starr
Faculty member Glenn Starr, along with co-author Emilie Destruel, has a new publication in Second Language Research, entitled, “A bidirectional study in L2 acquisition of pragmatics: The case of (un-)bounded adjectival scales”. Congratulations, Dr. Starr!… Continue Reading »
Dong Jin Kim defends doctoral dissertation
Dong Jin Kim has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, “The effects of orienting attention during production training in learning nonnative segmental and prosodic contrasts.” Congratulations, Dr. Kim!… Continue Reading »
Sean Weaver ’22 earns MPhil from Cambridge University
UWM Linguistics alum Sean Weaver (2022) has graduated from Cambridge University with an MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. He earned a Pass With Distinction, and his dissertation was titled “(Un)fit to purpose: A diachronic investigation of the development of ἵνα … Continue Reading »
Kim accepts position at Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Doctoral dissertator Dong Jin Kim has accepted the position of Research Associate in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Congratulations, Dong Jin!… Continue Reading »