Linguistics doctoral student Lauren Clark is a winner of the 2021 UWM Teaching Fellow Award. There were only six winners across all of UWM. Congratulations on the significant accomplishment, Lauren!… Continue Reading »
Kim to present at upcoming conferences
Okgi Kim will present joint work with Jong-Bok Kim on negative wh-constructions in Korean at the 29th Joint Conference on Linguistics and Language Processing (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) and at Korean Linguistics in Crosslinguistic Context (Cornell University).… Continue Reading »
Fritche and Song published in Journal of Phonetics
UWM doctoral student Robin Fritche and Associate Professor Jae Yung Song, along with co-author Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, just published an article in Journal of Phonetics. The article is titled, Do adults produce phonetic variants of /t/ less often in speech to children? Congratulations, … Continue Reading »
Albuarabi defends dissertation
Saja Albuarabi has successfully defended her dissertation, entitled “The Syntax of Negation in Iraqi Arabic”. Congratulations, Dr. Albuarabi!… Continue Reading »
Fellowships to Okgi Kim and Sujin Oh
We are happy to announce that two UWM linguistics doctoral students have been awarded fellowships to support their studies during the 2021-2022 academic year. Okgi Kim was awarded a UWM Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship (DDF). He researches the syntactic and semantic … Continue Reading »
Abuhaib defends dissertation
This morning Mohammed Abuhaib successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “Remarks on Modern Standard Arabic Construct State and Quantification.” Congratulations, Dr. Abuhaib!… Continue Reading »
Lauren Clark at High Desert Linguistics Society
UWM Linguistics Ph.D. student Lauren Clark will present a paper entitled “Mandarin Chinese Word Order and Altaic Influence” at the 14th High Desert Linguistics Society conference this week. Congratulations, Lauren!… Continue Reading »
Alwahibee defends dissertation
This morning Turki Alwahibee successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “Simple Subject-Verb Agreement: A Morphosyntactic Path to Arabic Variations.” Congratulations, Dr. Alwahibee!… Continue Reading »
UWM linguists presenting at LSA 2021
Congratulations to current and former UWM linguistics students who will be presenting at the 2021 Linguistic Society of America conference. Doctoral student Okgi Kim will present “On the syntax of ‘why’-like ‘how’ in Korean” And, with co-author Seulkee Park (Kyung … Continue Reading »
Ruqayyah Althubyani defends dissertation proposal
UWM linguistics doctoral student Ruqayyah Althubyani successfully defended her dissertation proposal, “The Effect of Shadowing in Learning L2 Segments and Suprasegmentals: A Perspective from Phonetic Convergence”. Congratulations, Ruqayyah! (Main advisor Dr. Hanyong Park is in the small image on lower … Continue Reading »