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 …

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!

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!

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!