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 »
Daniel and Yunhui presenting at WiGL
Daniel Quigley and Yunhui Kim presenting at the 17th Annual Workshop in General Linguistics (WiGL) at UW Madison.… Continue Reading »
Kim and Quigley at WIGL
UWM will be well represented at this year’s WIGL workshop at UW-Madison. Yunhui Kim will present a paper entitled “On Korean Why-Stripping” and Daniel Quigley will present a paper entitled “Decoding Authorial Style, Tone, and Mood in Poetic Translations through … Continue Reading »
UWM linguists at ASA
Three abstracts from the UWM Linguistics Department were accepted for presentation at the upcoming 184th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Chicago this May: “Perceived talker variability in high-variability perceptual training” by Hanyong Park & Jieun Lee (PhD … Continue Reading »
Fuddah and Ouali accepted to ASAL 36
Aisha Fuddah and Hamid Ouali’s paper entitled “Preposition Stranding in Hijazi Arabic Sluicing” has been accepted for presentation at the 36th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics to be held at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst on March 24-26, 2023. More information … Continue Reading »
Park and Ruh receive SURF Award for Spring 2023
Associate Professor Hanyong Park and undergraduate student Preston Ruh have received a SURF Award for Spring 2023. SURF awards support undergraduate students who are working on research projects with faculty. Congratulations, Dr. Park and Preston!… Continue Reading »
Abby Jefferson defends master’s paper
Abby Jefferson successfully defended her master’s paper, “To err is human, to repeat a sign: A sentence reproduction task, cognitive load, and errors in L2 ASL production and perception”. Congratulations, Abby!… Continue Reading »
Len Leverson defends master’s paper
Len Leverson has successfully defended his master’s paper for the MA TESOL, “A Course in legal English and U.S. Law for Undergraduate Japanese Law Students.” Congratulations, Len! (And congratulations also to Dr. Glenn Starr, who chaired his first master’s paper!). … Continue Reading »