Laura Kiskunas (MA 2017) has been accepted into the Speech and Hearing Sciences PhD program at the University of Iowa. Starting in the fall of 2025, she will be working with Professors Inyong Choi and Joel Berger, conducting research with …
On Friday, April 4, 2025, UWM Linguistics Department hosted its annual “Five Minute” talks, in which researchers presented their work in five-minute slots. Undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty all participated. The event was a great success!
Doctoral student Md Jamal Hossain presented his talk “ATR Vowel Harmony in Bangla” at the 19th Workshop in General Linguistics at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Congratulations, Jamal!
Linguistics undergraduate Charles Rojas, along with collaborators Jae Yung Song and Anne Pycha, has published a new article in Frontiers in Psychology. The title is “Factors modulating perception and production of speech by AI tools: a test case of Amazon Alexa and …
On March 8, doctoral student Md Jamal Hossain presented his work “pro in Bangla: Type and Cross-linguistic Implications” at the 17th Annual Illinois Language and Linguistics Conference in Urbana-Champaign. Congratulations, Jamal!
Doctoral student Amirah Alruwais successfully defended her prelim paper, “Phonological Transfer and Markedness Effects in Saudi Arabic Speakers’ English Obstruent Production”. Congratulations, Amirah!
Doctoral student Sara Issa has successfully defended her prelim paper, “Realization of Morphemic Word Final S in English of Human and Artificial Voices: Phonetic Evidence for Voiceless Clitic -s and Plural -s”. Congratulations, Sara!
Doctoral student Rozan Al Ghamdi successfully defended her PhD dissertation entitled, “Evolution of Phonological and Morphological Features in the Ghamdi Arabic Dialect: A Contemporary Analysis of Vowel Harmony and Gender Distinction.” Congratulations, Dr. Al Ghamdi!
For this month’s P-group, Anne Pycha presented “Factors modulating perception and production of speech by AI assistants: A test case of Amazon Alexa and Polly”, which is joint research with Jae Yung Song and Charles Rojas. Thanks to all who …
Doctoral students Sara Issa and Amirah Alruwais presented their research last weekend at the 2024 Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Sara Issa’s poster, co-authored with faculty member Anne Pycha, was titled “Artificial Intelligence …