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 …

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 …

Choeun-La and Henkhaus inducted to Phi Beta Kappa

Undergraduate students Melanie Faith Choeun-La and Emma Henkhaus were inducted into the Wisconsin chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, America’s most prestigious honors society. Phi Beta Kappa celebrates excellence in the liberal arts and sciences and champions freedom of thought. Just …

Lauren Clark defends doctoral dissertation

Lauren Clark successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “An Extended Replication Theory Approach to Taiwan Mandarin Syntax.” Congratulations, Dr. Clark!

Jenna Kieffer defends Master’s paper

Jenna Kieffer has successfully defended her Master’s paper, “Evidence for a Text-Driven Approach to ESL Materials Design.” Congratulations, Jenna!

Sujin Oh defends doctoral dissertation

Sujin Oh successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “Individual Differences of L2 Category Precision in L2 Speech Learning.” Congratulations, Dr. Oh!

Joy Alcorn defends Master’s paper

Joy Alcorn has successfully defended her Master’s paper “”There is no Monolingual Control Group: Asymmetry in Bilingual Working Memory Advantage due to Differences in Economy of Working Memory Strategies between Bilinguals and Monolinguals”. Congratulations, Joy!

Charles Rojas wins Outstanding Presentation Award

At the 2024 UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium, Charles Rojas won an Outstanding Presentation Award for his poster, “How Voice-Activated AI Assistants and Humans Share Similar Patterns of Word Recognition.” The faculty co-authors are Anne Pycha and Jae Yung Song. Congratulations, …

Al Omary successfully defends dissertation

Maaly Al Omary successfully defended her dissertation, “Arabic Heritage Speakers’ Acquisition of Arabic Emphatic-Plain Contrasts.” In addition to the committee, ten UWM students and alumni joined the early-morning meeting. Congratulations, Dr. Al Omary!  

Quigley to Japan for Fujitsu research in AI

Doctoral student Daniel Quigley has been offered a summer position in Graduate Research in Industrial Projects for Students, a program at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles, which is sponsored by the National …

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