UWM doctoral student Okgi Kim recently had an article published in the Proceedings of the Linguistics Society of America. The article, “Morphosyntactic form of Korean fragments is relevant to their resolution”, was co-authored by Joanna Nykiel, Jong-Bok Kim, and Rok … Continue Reading »
Singer wins grand prize at Japanese Consulate
UWM linguistics and Japanese major Lauren Singer won the grand prize at a speech contest hosted by the Japanese Consulate in Chicago. Congratulations, Lauren!… Continue Reading »
Johnson ’17 awarded Fulbright
UWM graduate Amanda Johnson ’17, Global Studies major and TESOL certificate student, has been accepted to the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program in Colombia. Congratulations, Amanda!… Continue Reading »
Brown-Cox to JET program
UWM undergraduate Trevor Brown-Cox, a double-major in Linguistics and Japanese and TESOL certificate student, has won an award to the prestigious Japan Exchange and Teaching program (JET). He will start in Japan in August. Congratulations, Trevor! &nbs… Continue Reading »
Abu Helal presents at PLC
Linguistics PhD candidate Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal was in Philadelphia this weekend to present his paper, “On dimensional property concepts in Palestinian Arabic: Evidence for uniformitarianism,” at this year’s Penn Linguistics Conference.… Continue Reading »
Abu Helal to appear in Studia Linguistica
UWM linguistics doctoral student Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal’s paper, “A feature inheritance approach to the information structure of depictive clauses in Standard Arabic,” has been accepted to appear in the journal Studia Linguistica. Congratulations, Abel Rahman!… Continue Reading »
Alharbi defends dissertation
Bader Alharbi successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “The syntax of copular clauses in Arabic,” this past Thursday. Congratulations, Dr. Alharbi!… Continue Reading »
Pycha publishes in Glossa
Assistant professor Anne Pycha’s article “A new test for exemplar theory: Varying versus non-varying words in Spanish” appeared today in the journal Glossa. Students Faviola Valadez and Laura Mendoza contributed to this project as research assistants.… Continue Reading »
Lee accepted to present at Mid-Phon
Linguistics doctoral student Jieun Lee has been accepted to present at the 22nd Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology Conference at Ohio State. Her presentation, co-authored with Associate Professor Hanyong Park, is entitled “The role of speech rate in high phonetic variability … Continue Reading »
Bagherzadeh accepted to present at SLRF
Linguistics doctoral student Hamideh Bagherzadeh had two abstracts accepted for presentation at the Second Language Research Forum, to take place at Ohio State University in October 2017. The titles are “Effect of Pot-Luck, Innovative Technique of Project-Based Learning, On Collaboration … Continue Reading »