On Thursday May 5, Jieun Lee successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “Individual differences in non-native phonological contrast learning: the role of perceptual sensitivity to sub-phonemic variation in native categories”. Congratulations, Dr. Lee!… Continue Reading »
Congratulations to Tessa Culleton
At the UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 29, Tessa Culleton earned the Outstanding Presentation Award for her work “Low Density and Clear Speech Make Words More Memorable,” in collaboration with Drs. Jae Yung Song and Anne Pycha. Congratulations, Tessa!… Continue Reading »
Students present at Undergraduate Research Symposium
Congratulations to Annika Huber, Preston Ruh, and Tessa Culleton! These undergraduates, in collaboration with their faculty advisors, presented their research on April 29 at the UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium.… Continue Reading »
Okgi Kim defends doctoral dissertation
Doctoral student Okgi Kim successfully defended his dissertation, “The syntax and semantics of non-standard wh-constructions in Korean.” Congratulations, Dr. Kim!… Continue Reading »
Saad Alshahrani defends doctoral dissertation
Doctoral student Saad Alshahrani successfully defended his dissertation, “Syllable structure and phonological processes of Southern Najdi Arabic: An Optimality Theoretic Model.” Congratulations, Dr. Alshahrani!… Continue Reading »
Sara Issa accepted as Fellow to C21 Story Experience
UWM Linguistics doctoral student Sara Issa has been accepted as a 2022-2023 Fellow for the C21 Story Experience program. Fellows work in partnership with Milwaukee-based organizations to facilitate story-sharing and community building. Congratulations, Sara!… Continue Reading »
Fellowship to Yunhui Kim
Linguistics Ph.D. student Yunhui Kim has been awarded a Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship for 2022-23 by the UWM Graduate School. Congratulations, Yunhui!… Continue Reading »
Linguistics majors make Dean’s List
Congratulations to the following Linguistics majors and intended majors for making the fall 2021 Dean’s List! Tessa Culleton Jeffrey Vitale Autumn Vang Rachel Roelke Melanie Choeun-La Preston Ru… Continue Reading »
Park and Ruh receive SURF award
Associate Professor Hanyong Park and undergraduate student Preston Ruh have been awarded a SURF (Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows) award for Spring 2022. Congratulations, Dr. Park and Preston!… Continue Reading »
Kim at LSK
Linguistics Ph.D. student Okgi Kim is presenting this week at the Linguistic Society of Korea’s 2021 Winter LSK Young Scholar Symposium and Winter Conference. Congratulations, Okgi!… Continue Reading »