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 …

Gyasi and Polyglot MKE

Last week’s meeting of Polyglot MKE was a lively lesson in the Twi language, taught by Diana Boateng. It was a big success and Emmanuel Appiah Gyasi helped facilitate it. Congratulations, Emmanuel!

Oh and Park to present at LabPhon 19

The work of Sujin Oh and Hanyong Park has been accepted for presentation at the 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 19) to be held at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, from June 27 to 29, 2024. The title of their …

Lee, Kim, and Park paper in Linguistic Research

A paper by Jieun Lee (UWM PhD 2022), Dong Jin Kim, and Hanyong Park entitled “Native listeners’ perceptual assessments of native and foreign-accented speech and their associations with various speech properties” has been accepted for publication in the journal Linguistic …

Doctoral students to present at UW Madison

Three of our doctoral students will be presenting at the Workshop in General Linguistics (WiGL) to be held April 12-13, 2024 at UW Madison. Arabic Heritage Speakers’ Perception of Arabic Emphatic-Plain Contrasts Maaly Al Omary Be Reasonable! Relating Logical Models …

Fuddah wins award for Best Student Abstract

At the 37th Symposium on Arabic Linguistics at Long Island University, doctoral student Aisha Fuddah wont the Best Student Abstract Award for her abstract “Hijazi Arabic muu: beyond mere negation.” The award came with a prize of $300. Congratulations, Aisha!

Park and Ruh receive SURF for Spring 2024

Professor Hanyong Park and undergraduate Preston Ruh have received a SURF (Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows) award for Spring 2024 from the Office of Undergraduate Research. Congrats, Dr. Park and Preston!

UWM at Linguistics Society of America

UWM was represented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, which took place January 3-7, 2024 in New York City. Aisha Fuddah presented joint work with Hamid Ouali, “Pseudo-sluicing in Hijazi Arabic: A Hybrid Account.” Anne …