Yahya Aldholmi (PhD 2018) has been promoted to Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. Congratulations, Yahya!… Continue Reading »
New publications by Anne Pycha and colleagues
Faculty member Anne Pycha, along with colleagues at UC Davis, have two new publications: Zellou, G., Cohn, M., and Pycha, A. (in press). The effect of listener beliefs on perceptual learning. Language. Zellou, G., Pycha, A., and Cohn, M. (2023). The perception … Continue Reading »
Allie Potter defends Master’s paper
Graduate student Allie Potter successfully defended her Master’s paper, “Variability is Key: How French Liaison Production in Nigerien French Sheds a Light on Dialectal and Acquisition Differences.” Congratulations, Allie!… Continue Reading »
Bielasan Zaina defends Master’s paper
MA TESOL student Bielasan Zaina successfully defended her Master’s paper, “Morphosyntactic Structures of Progressive Aspect in the Oral Production of Heritage Najdi Arabic Speakers.” Congratulations, Bielasan!… Continue Reading »
Patrice Vnuk defends Master’s paper
MA TESOL student Patrice Vnuk successfully defended her Master’s paper, “English literacy for non-print-literate adult English learners: Combining Experiential Learning and the Language Experience approach.” Congratulations, Patrice!… Continue Reading »
Emma Blanchette inducted to Phi Beta Kappa
Linguistics undergraduate Emma Blanchette was one of a select group of students inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa society, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious undergraduate academic honor society. You can read more about her here. Congratulations, Emma!… Continue Reading »
Sean Weaver will pursue MPhil in Cambridge
Recent graduate Sean Weaver (UWM 2022) has an accepted an offer to pursue an MPhil degree in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He will start in the fall of 2023. Congratulations, Sean!… Continue Reading »
Alosaimi defends dissertation
Doctoral student Doaa Alosaimi successfully defended her dissertation, “The acquisition of English consonant clusters by Hijazi Arabic speakers: The effects of L1 transfer vs. markedness vs. input frequency.” The dissertation was supervised by Dr. Jae Yung Song. Congratulations, Dr. Alosaimi!… Continue Reading »
Park and Ruh receive summer SURF award
Associate Professor Hanyong Park and linguistics undergraduate Preston Ruh have received a SURF (Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows) award for summer 2023, for the project “Native Language Category Precision in Second Language Speech Learning.” Congratulations, Dr. Park and Preston!… Continue Reading »
Marcia Gonzales Llanos will pursue doctorate at MIT
UWM Philosophy and Linguistics student Marcia Gonzales Llanos has accepted an offer to attend the doctoral program in linguistics at MIT! Congratulations, Marcia! (photo credit Tessa Culleton)… Continue Reading »