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.”
Doctoral student Amirah Alruwais successfully defended her prelim paper, “Phonological Transfer and Markedness Effects in Saudi Arabic Speakers’ English Obstruent Production”. Congratulations, Amirah!
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!
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!
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 …
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 …
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!