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. …
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 …
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!
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!
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!
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 …
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!
Research conducted by undergraduate Charles Rojas was featured in the most recent issue of the L&S In Focus newsletter. The research, in collaboration with Jae Yung Song and Anne Pycha, examines how voice-AI assistants like Alexa respond to words with …
Anne Pycha and collaborator Georgia Zellou (UC Davis) have published a new article in the journal Frontiers in Computer Science, titled “The influence of accent and device usage on perceived credibility during interactions with voice-AI assistants.” Check it out!
At our Spring Celebration and Graduation, we announced several awards for 2024: Outstanding Undergraduates: Aidan Cashman and Francesca Wiley Outstanding Teaching Assistant: Yunhui Kim Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation: Sujin Oh, Individual Differences of L2 Category Precision in L2 Speech Learning Congratulations …
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