Md Jamal Hossain presents at UW-Madison
Doctoral student Md Jamal Hossain presented his talk “ATR Vowel Harmony in Bangla” at the 19th Workshop in General Linguistics at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Congratulations, Jamal!
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Charles Rojas & collaborators publish in Frontiers in Psychology
Linguistics undergraduate Charles Rojas, along with collaborators Jae Yung Song and Anne Pycha, has published a new article in Frontiers in Psychology. The title is “Factors modulating perception and production of speech by AI tools: a test case of Amazon Alexa and …
Md Jamal Hossain presents in Illinois
On March 8, doctoral student Md Jamal Hossain presented his work “pro in Bangla: Type and Cross-linguistic Implications” at the 17th Annual Illinois Language and Linguistics Conference in Urbana-Champaign. Congratulations, Jamal!
Update from Dylan Pearson BA 2014, MA 2016
We are thrilled to report that linguistics department alum Dylan Pearson (BA ’14, MA ’16) has recently completed his Ph.D in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at Indiana University. His research focuses on the sources of individual variation in hearing …
New article by Oh and Park
A new article by Sujin Oh (PhD 2024) and Hanyong Park has been published in Linguistic Research. It is titled, “The impact of native language on second language rhythm acquisition: Insights from a cross-linguistic and intra-language corpus study.”
Amirah Alruwais defends prelim paper
Doctoral student Amirah Alruwais successfully defended her prelim paper, “Phonological Transfer and Markedness Effects in Saudi Arabic Speakers’ English Obstruent Production”. Congratulations, Amirah!
Sara Issa defends prelim paper
Doctoral student Sara Issa has successfully defended her prelim paper, “Realization of Morphemic Word Final S in English of Human and Artificial Voices: Phonetic Evidence for Voiceless Clitic -s and Plural -s”. Congratulations, Sara!
Rozan Al Ghamdi defends dissertation
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!
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 …
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 …