Quigley defends dissertation
Daniel Quigley this morning successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “Neurosymbolic Semantics.” Congratulations, Dr. Quigley!
News
Dr. Park & colleagues publish new article in Journal of Phonetics
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 …
Congrats to Isa Bright, Anna Westoff (and Mark Mone!)
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!
Kiskunas (MA ’17) to University of Iowa
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 …
Song & Eckman published in Second Language Research
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, …
Department hosts “Five Minute” talks
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!
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!
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 …