UWM linguistics doctoral student Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal’s paper, “A feature inheritance approach to the information structure of depictive clauses in Standard Arabic,” has been accepted to appear in the journal Studia Linguistica. Congratulations, Abel Rahman!… Continue Reading »
Alharbi defends dissertation
Bader Alharbi successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “The syntax of copular clauses in Arabic,” this past Thursday. Congratulations, Dr. Alharbi!… Continue Reading »
Pycha publishes in Glossa
Assistant professor Anne Pycha’s article “A new test for exemplar theory: Varying versus non-varying words in Spanish” appeared today in the journal Glossa. Students Faviola Valadez and Laura Mendoza contributed to this project as research assistants.… Continue Reading »
Lee accepted to present at Mid-Phon
Linguistics doctoral student Jieun Lee has been accepted to present at the 22nd Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology Conference at Ohio State. Her presentation, co-authored with Associate Professor Hanyong Park, is entitled “The role of speech rate in high phonetic variability … Continue Reading »
Bagherzadeh accepted to present at SLRF
Linguistics doctoral student Hamideh Bagherzadeh had two abstracts accepted for presentation at the Second Language Research Forum, to take place at Ohio State University in October 2017. The titles are “Effect of Pot-Luck, Innovative Technique of Project-Based Learning, On Collaboration … Continue Reading »
Albaty accepted to present at LSA 2018
Linguistics doctoral student Yasser Albaty’s paper was accepted for presentation at the 2018 meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. His paper is entitled, “Modality in Arabic: a restructuring analysis”. Congratulations, Yasser!… Continue Reading »
Smith receives SURF award
Melanie Kristen Smith, a student of Linguistics and German, has received a “Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows” (SURF) award for the academic year 2017-18 from UWM’s Office for Undergraduate Research. The financial support provided by the SURF will allow … Continue Reading »
Schubilske receives SURF award
Linguistics major Krist Schubilske has received a “Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows” award from the Office for Undergraduate Research at UWM, for Fall 2017. The award provides funding to work as an RA for assistant professor Anne Pycha on a … Continue Reading »
El Haimeur publishes article
Linguistics doctoral student Amal El Haimeur recently published an article “Ethnolinguistic Identity in Morocco” in Field Notes: A Journal of Collegiate Anthropology. Congratulations, Amal!… Continue Reading »
Alhammad defends prelim
UWM doctoral student Reham Alhammad successfully defended her prelim paper, “Coda clusters in Najdi Arabic: The role of the syllable contact law.” Congratulations, Reham!… Continue Reading »