UWM Linguistics student Zafer Al Lababidi successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled “The L2 perceptual mapping of Arabic and English consonants by American English learners.” Congratulations, Zafer!… Continue Reading »

UWM Linguistics alumna Elena Mihas (PhD 2010) has received the 2016 Graduate of the Last Decade Award from the UWM Alumni Association. Elena is an expert on Alto Perené, a language of Peru. An expanded version of her dissertation was … Continue Reading »

UWM linguistics graduate student Jon Schoenbeck successfully defended his MA paper entitled “The Effiicacy of Segmental Pronunciation Practice in the Production of English Coda Consonants by Sgaw Karen Speakers.” Congratulations, Jon!… Continue Reading »

UWM linguistics graduate student Dylan Pearson successfully defended his MA paper “A survey of indexical bleedthrough from competing speech.” Congratulations, Dylan!… Continue Reading »

In Fall 2016, UWM Linguistics undergraduate Aleese Block will begin the master’s program in linguistics at University of Colorado. Congratulations, Aleese!… Continue Reading »

Juman Al Bukhari presented “Gapping in Jordanian Arabic” at the 8th Illinois Language and Linguistics Society annual conference (April 21 to April 24) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.… Continue Reading »

Congratulations to Li-Ya Mar and Juman Al Bukhari, both of whom have successfully defended their dissertations! Li-Ya’s dissertation is entitled “Covert contrast: The acquisition of Mandarin tone 2 and tone 3 in L2 production and perception.” Juman’s dissertation is entitled … Continue Reading »

Jacklyn Ryan, UWM Linguistics master’s student, has accepted an offer to attend the doctoral program in Linguistics at Michigan State University in East Lansing, where she will work as a teaching assistant while pursuing her research. Congratulations, Jacklyn!… Continue Reading »

Dylan Pearson, UWM Linguistics master’s student, has accepted an offer to attend the doctoral program in Speech & Hearing at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he will conduct research in the laboratories of Dr. Tessa Bent and Dr. Yi Shen. … Continue Reading »

UWM Linguistics doctoral student Juman Al Bukhari has been appointed as an Arabic language teacher for summer 2016 in the Immersive Summer Arabic Language Program at the Arabic Academy at Green Mountain College, Vermont. Congratulations, Juman!… Continue Reading »