Congratulations to Reem Alshammeri, whose paper ‘Ditransitive Constructions in Najdi Arabic’ has been accepted for an in-person poster presentation at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting, to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, in January 2026.… Continue Reading »
Linguistics receives multiple SURF Awards
Several students and faculty members received SURF (Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows) awards this semester. Kenji Rackoff received a SURF award to work on a project entitled “The Role of Cognitive Abilities in Second Language Sound Learning,” under the direction … Continue Reading »
Congratulations to 2025 Linguistics graduates
Congratulations to all of our spring 2025 UWM Linguistics graduates! BA: Payton Auel Kimberly Campos Melanie Choeun-La Emma Henkhaus Hannah Jones Cassandra Rice Preston Ruh Breanna Watson Luna Whelan MA: Victoria Baake PhD: Daniel Quigley… Continue Reading »
Congratulations to Victoria Baake
Victoria Baake successfully defended her MA paper, Generalizability Across Genders using High Variability Phonetic Training. Congratulations, Victoria!… Continue Reading »
Quigley defends dissertation
Daniel Quigley this morning successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “Neurosymbolic Semantics.” Congratulations, Dr. Quigley!… Continue Reading »
Congrats to Isa Bright, Anna Westoff (and Mark Mone!)
Congratulations to linguistics majors Isa Bright and Anna Westhoff, who were inducted yesterday into Phi Beta Kappa, America’s most prestigious academic honor society. Their fellow inductee was Chancellor Mark Mone! Congratulations on your hard work, Isa and Anna!… Continue Reading »
Kiskunas (MA ’17) to University of Iowa
Laura Kiskunas (MA 2017) has been accepted into the Speech and Hearing Sciences PhD program at the University of Iowa. Starting in the fall of 2025, she will be working with Professors Inyong Choi and Joel Berger, conducting research with … Continue Reading »
Department hosts “Five Minute” talks
On Friday, April 4, 2025, UWM Linguistics Department hosted its annual “Five Minute” talks, in which researchers presented their work in five-minute slots. Undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty all participated. The event was a great success!… Continue Reading »
Md Jamal Hossain presents at UW-Madison
Doctoral student Md Jamal Hossain presented his talk “ATR Vowel Harmony in Bangla” at the 19th Workshop in General Linguistics at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Congratulations, Jamal!… Continue Reading »
Charles Rojas & collaborators publish in Frontiers in Psychology
Linguistics undergraduate Charles Rojas, along with collaborators Jae Yung Song and Anne Pycha, has published a new article in Frontiers in Psychology. The title is “Factors modulating perception and production of speech by AI tools: a test case of Amazon Alexa and … Continue Reading »