Joy Alcorn has successfully defended her Master’s paper “”There is no Monolingual Control Group: Asymmetry in Bilingual Working Memory Advantage due to Differences in Economy of Working Memory Strategies between Bilinguals and Monolinguals”. Congratulations, Joy!… Continue Reading »
Charles Rojas wins Outstanding Presentation Award
At the 2024 UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium, Charles Rojas won an Outstanding Presentation Award for his poster, “How Voice-Activated AI Assistants and Humans Share Similar Patterns of Word Recognition.” The faculty co-authors are Anne Pycha and Jae Yung Song. Congratulations, … Continue Reading »
Lee and Park publish in Journal of Phonetics
A new article by Jieun Lee (PhD 2022) and Hanyong Park has just been published in the Journal of Phonetics. It is titled “Acoustic cue sensitivity in the perception of native category and their relation non nonnative phonological contrast learning.” … Continue Reading »
Al Omary successfully defends dissertation
Maaly Al Omary successfully defended her dissertation, “Arabic Heritage Speakers’ Acquisition of Arabic Emphatic-Plain Contrasts.” In addition to the committee, ten UWM students and alumni joined the early-morning meeting. Congratulations, Dr. Al Omary! &nbs… Continue Reading »
El Haimeur (Ph.D 2019) promoted at Kansas University
Amal El Haimeur, who earned her Ph.D in Linguistics from UWM in 2019, has been promoted to tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Kansas University. Congratulations, Dr. El Haimeur! &nbs… Continue Reading »
Fleisher talks at Georgetown
Associate Professor Nick Fleisher gave an invited talk at Georgetown University earlier this month in their Linguistics Department’s Friday Research Talks series. The title of the talk was “The semantics and pragmatics of norm erosion.”… Continue Reading »
Culleton to University of Maryland
Tessa Culleton (Linguistics BA 2022) has accepted a funded offer of admission to the doctoral program in linguistics at the University of Maryland, one of the top-ranked departments in the country. Congratulations, Tessa!… Continue Reading »
Quigley to Japan for Fujitsu research in AI
Doctoral student Daniel Quigley has been offered a summer position in Graduate Research in Industrial Projects for Students, a program at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles, which is sponsored by the National … Continue Reading »
Gyasi and Polyglot MKE
Last week’s meeting of Polyglot MKE was a lively lesson in the Twi language, taught by Diana Boateng. It was a big success and Emmanuel Appiah Gyasi helped facilitate it. Congratulations, Emmanuel!… Continue Reading »
Oh and Park to present at LabPhon 19
The work of Sujin Oh and Hanyong Park has been accepted for presentation at the 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 19) to be held at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, from June 27 to 29, 2024. The title of their … Continue Reading »