Congratulations to Hamideh Bagherzadeh, who has been awarded a Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship for 2019-20 from the UWM Graduate School.… Continue Reading »
Abu Helal in PLC proceedings
Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal’s article, “On dimensional property concepts in Levantine Arabic: Evidence for uniformitarianism,” has been published in the Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Penn Linguistics Conference (University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 25).… Continue Reading »
Pattillo, Clark, and Lee to present at WiGL
Linguistics department lecturer Kelsie Pattillo and PhD students Lauren Clark and Jieun Lee will present their paper “Dialectology, prevelar raising, and collaborative language research in the undergraduate classroom” at the 16th Workshop in General Linguistics at UW-Madison in March. The … Continue Reading »
Aldholmi successfully defends dissertation
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 »