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 »
Ryota Harada to Lancaster University
We are happy to announce that Ryota Harada, an exchange student at UWM, has been accepted to Language and Linguistics MA program of Lancaster University in the UK. Congratulations, Ryota!… Continue Reading »
New and recent majors in Linguistics!
We’ve had many wonderful new students declare the Linguistics major over the past couple of semesters. Here’s a chance to meet a few of them…if you see them in the hallways, please give them a warm hello! Emma Blanchette Kankakee, … Continue Reading »
Crouch receives Eckman Scholarship
Undergraduate student Declan Crouch has received the Eckman Scholarship from the UWM Department of Linguistics. This scholarship is based on academic merit in linguistics classes and includes a monetary award. The faculty commends Declan for his outstanding intellectual engagement. Congratulations, … Continue Reading »
Two Linguistics SURF awards
Two Linguistics projects have been awarded funding to support undergraduate research as part of UWM’s SURF program for fall 2022: Preston Ruh and Hanyong Park: “Foreign Accent in Consonant Clusters” Sean Weaver and Glenn Starr: “L2 Learner Receptivity to Scalar … Continue Reading »