Graduate Program Info Session, Nov 3

The UWM Linguistics Graduate Program will host a Virtual Information Session Tuesday, November 3, 2026 8:00 AM Central Standard Time (UTC -06:00) Join us to learn about Master’s and Doctoral programs in linguistics!Attendees are eligible to receive an application fee …

UWM linguists at Mid-Phon conference

Three doctoral students presented at the Mid-Phon 31 conference held at St. Louis University in October 16-17, 2026. The titles of the talks are: Phonetic evidence for an unordered representation of labiovelar stops: An Experimental view on EweEmmanuel Appiah Gyasi …

Joy Alcorn (MA ’24) presents at Psychonomics Conference

Last weekend, Joy Alcorn (MA 2024) presented a poster at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society in Denver, Colorado. Her poster was entitled, “Differences in working memory strategies between monolinguals and bilinguals demonstrated by performance on a dual-task …

Ouali hosts workshop on Abstract Writing

Last Friday February 28, 2025, graduate program director Hamid Ouali hosted a successful workshop on Abstract Writing. The focus was on abstracts for linguistics conferences. Dr. Ouali reviewed the elements of a successful abstract. Faculty members Nick Fleisher and Anne …

New publications by Anne Pycha and colleagues

Faculty member Anne Pycha, along with colleagues at UC Davis, have two new publications: Zellou, G., Cohn, M., and Pycha, A. (in press). The effect of listener beliefs on perceptual learning. Language. Zellou, G., Pycha, A., and Cohn, M. (2023). The perception …