On November 27, 2018, UWM linguistics graduate student Yahya Aldholmi successfully defended his Ph.D dissertation “Segmental Contributions to Speech Intelligibility in Nonconcatenative vs. Concatenative Languages”. Congratulations, Dr. Aldholmi!… Continue Reading »
Albaty and Ouali in Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics
Yasser Albaty and Hamid Ouali’s paper entitled “Restructuring and Control in Arabic” has been accepted for publication Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics.… Continue Reading »
UWM linguists at MidPhon23
We will have two conference presentations at the 23rd Annual Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology (MidPhon23) Conference at Northwestern University from October 5 to 6, 2018. “Perceived talker similarity in perceptual training of Korean laryngeal contrasts” – Hanyong Park “Some candidates … Continue Reading »
UWM linguists at PSLLT
We will have two conference presentations at the 10th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching (PSLLT) conference at Iowa State University from September 6 to 8, 2018. “Vowel epenthesis in Korean English learners’ pronunciation: at the crossroads of perception, … Continue Reading »
Reham Alhammad defends dissertation
On Thursday, July 26, 2018, Reham Alhammad successfully defended her Ph.D dissertation entitled, “The Role of the Syllable Contact Law-Semisyllable (SCL-Semi) in the Coda Clusters of Najdi Arabic and Other Languages.” Congratulations, Dr. Alhammad! &nbs… Continue Reading »
Abbey Palmer ’18 featured in UWM Report
A great video of Abbey Palmer (B.A. & TESOL certificate ’18) was featured in the UWM Report. View it here. &nbs… Continue Reading »
Photos from Undergraduate Research Symposium
Abbey Palmer to Oxford
UWM linguistics major Abbey Palmer has accepted an offer to attend the Master’s program in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition at University of Oxford. Congratulations, Abbey!… Continue Reading »
Abu Helal published in Studia Linguistica
UWM doctoral student Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal just had an article published in the peer-reviewed journal Studia Linguistica. It is entitled On Discourse Features Inheritance in the vP Information Structure: Evidence from Depictive Secondary Predication in Standard Arabic. Congratulations, Abel-Rahman!… Continue Reading »
Okgi Kim published in Proceedings of LSA
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 »