Alana Skellett, UWM Linguistics/German double major and TESOL certificate student, has been accepted to the competitive U.S. Teaching Assistantship program in Austria for the 2016-2017 academic year.… Continue Reading »
Al Bukhari to North Georgia
Juman S Al Bukhari, UWM Linguistics doctoral student, has accepted a tenure-track position of Assistant Professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at the University of North Georgia. Congratulations, Juman!… Continue Reading »
UWM Linguists at ASAL 30
UWM Linguistics is well represented at this year’s Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, which is being held this weekend at Stony Brook University. There are three talks by UWM linguists: Yahya Aldholmi, Hamid Ouali, and Tue Trinh: “On complex adjectival … Continue Reading »
Linguistics undergrads inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
Congratulations to the following undergraduate majors in Linguistics, who will be inducted into Phi Beta Kappa this April. Phi Beta Kappa is a prestigious prestigious academic honor society that honors the best and brightest students in liberal arts & sciences. … Continue Reading »
Ryan presents at SWAMP
M.A. student Jacklyn Ryan will be presenting her work this weekend at the annual SWAMP workshop, held this year at the University of Michigan.… Continue Reading »
Park, Pearson, Sankhagowit to present at ASA
UWM Linguistics will be well represented at the upcoming 170th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, to be held in Jacksonville, FL, Nov 2–6: Hanyong Park will present a poster entitled “Production and perception skill developments of Korean coronal … Continue Reading »
Aldholmi presents at Annual Meeting on Phonology
Doctoral student Yahya Aldholmi presented his poster, “Perceptual deafness as a consequence of nonconcatenativeness,” at the Annual Meeting on Phonology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, October 9-11, 2015. Congratulations, Yahya!… Continue Reading »
Zafer Lababidi: Defends dissertation proposal
Belated congratulations to Zafer Lababidi, who successfully defended his dissertation proposal on Sept. 4.… Continue Reading »
Bader Alharbi: Defends Prelim
Congratulations to PhD student Bader Alharbi, who successfully defended his prelim paper, entitled “Adjectival agreement in Modern Standard Arabic”, today.… Continue Reading »
UWM Linguists at MidPhon 20
UWM Linguistics was well represented at MidPhon 20, held earlier this month at Indiana University: Amara Sankhagowit (MA 2015) – Coda Neutralization in Thai (poster) Hanyong Park – Perceptual category mapping between English and Korean from the perspective of English-speaking … Continue Reading »