Graduate student Allie Potter successfully defended her Master’s paper, “Variability is Key: How French Liaison Production in Nigerien French Sheds a Light on Dialectal and Acquisition Differences.” Congratulations, Allie!… Continue Reading »
Bielasan Zaina defends Master’s paper
MA TESOL student Bielasan Zaina successfully defended her Master’s paper, “Morphosyntactic Structures of Progressive Aspect in the Oral Production of Heritage Najdi Arabic Speakers.” Congratulations, Bielasan!… Continue Reading »
Patrice Vnuk defends Master’s paper
MA TESOL student Patrice Vnuk successfully defended her Master’s paper, “English literacy for non-print-literate adult English learners: Combining Experiential Learning and the Language Experience approach.” Congratulations, Patrice!… Continue Reading »
Emma Blanchette inducted to Phi Beta Kappa
Linguistics undergraduate Emma Blanchette was one of a select group of students inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa society, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious undergraduate academic honor society. You can read more about her here. Congratulations, Emma!… Continue Reading »
Alosaimi defends dissertation
Doctoral student Doaa Alosaimi successfully defended her dissertation, “The acquisition of English consonant clusters by Hijazi Arabic speakers: The effects of L1 transfer vs. markedness vs. input frequency.” The dissertation was supervised by Dr. Jae Yung Song. Congratulations, Dr. Alosaimi!… Continue Reading »
Park and Ruh receive summer SURF award
Associate Professor Hanyong Park and linguistics undergraduate Preston Ruh have received a SURF (Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows) award for summer 2023, for the project “Native Language Category Precision in Second Language Speech Learning.” Congratulations, Dr. Park and Preston!… Continue Reading »
Marcia Gonzales Llanos will pursue doctorate at MIT
UWM Philosophy and Linguistics student Marcia Gonzales Llanos has accepted an offer to attend the doctoral program in linguistics at MIT! Congratulations, Marcia! (photo credit Tessa Culleton)… Continue Reading »
Al Omary defends dissertation proposal
Doctoral student Maaly Al Omary successfully defended her dissertation proposal, “Arabic Heritage Speakers’ Acquisition of Arabic Emphatic-Plain Contrasts”. Congratulations, Maaly! &nbs… Continue Reading »
Oh defends dissertation proposal
Doctoral student Sujin Oh successfully defended her dissertation proposal, “Individual differences of L1 category precision in L2 speech learning”. Congratulations, Sujin!… Continue Reading »
Mehrparvar named C21 Story Experience fellow
Doctoral student Sahar Mehrparvar has been named a C21 Story Experience Fellow for 2023-2024. In this role, she will work in partnership with Milwaukee-based organizations to facilitate storying in a range of forms from oral history to poetry and story-circles. … Continue Reading »