Ryan defends dissertation
Jacklyn Ryan has successfully defended her dissertation, entitled “Is That a Rhetorical Question?: A Pragmatic Analysis.” Congratulations, Dr. Ryan!
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Al Omary selected as UWM Teaching Fellow
Doctoral student Maaly Al Omary has been selected as a UWM Teaching Fellow for the 2023-2024 academic year. According to the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, the award speaks to her “dedication to student success, exceptional pedagogy, and …
Allie Potter defends Master’s paper
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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)
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!