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 »

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 »