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! &nbs… Continue Reading »
Rozan Al Ghamdi defends dissertation
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!… Continue Reading »
P-group presentation on Al assistants
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 … Continue Reading »
Issa and Alruwais present at MidPhon 2024
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 … Continue Reading »
Linguists win SURF funding
Several Linguistics faculty have been awarded SURF funding to support undergraduate research this fall: Anne Pycha will be working with Emma Henkhaus and Cassie Rice Glenn Starr will be working with Preston Ruh Jae Yung Song and Fred Eckman will … Continue Reading »
Fuddah to present at LSA
Doctoral student Aisha Fuddah’s abstract entitled “Overt polarity in Hijazi Arabic” has been accepted for presentation as a talk at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Philadelphia in January. Congratulations, Aisha!… Continue Reading »
Dong Jin Kim defends doctoral dissertation
Dong Jin Kim has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, “The effects of orienting attention during production training in learning nonnative segmental and prosodic contrasts.” Congratulations, Dr. Kim!… Continue Reading »
Kim accepts position at Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Doctoral dissertator Dong Jin Kim has accepted the position of Research Associate in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Congratulations, Dong Jin!… Continue Reading »
Rojas featured in L&S In Focus
Research conducted by undergraduate Charles Rojas was featured in the most recent issue of the L&S In Focus newsletter. The research, in collaboration with Jae Yung Song and Anne Pycha, examines how voice-AI assistants like Alexa respond to words with … Continue Reading »
2024 Linguistics Department Awards
At our Spring Celebration and Graduation, we announced several awards for 2024: Outstanding Undergraduates: Aidan Cashman and Francesca Wiley Outstanding Teaching Assistant: Yunhui Kim Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation: Sujin Oh, Individual Differences of L2 Category Precision in L2 Speech Learning Congratulations … Continue Reading »