{"id":7459,"date":"2025-12-23T11:52:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/webid2-test-lsweb\/?page_id=7459"},"modified":"2026-05-05T16:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:44:10","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/linguistics\/about\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"uwm-p-posts uwm-c-list--cleanlist uwm-c-list--border has-dates\"><li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/linguistics\/alshammeri-defends-dissertation\/\">Alshammeri defends dissertation<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-05-08T14:00:54-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">May 8, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">On Monday, May 4, Reem Alshammeri successfully defended her dissertation, entitled The syntax of ditransitives in Najdi Arabic. Congratulations, Dr. Alshammeri!<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/linguistics\/fuddah-defends-dissertation\/\">Fuddah defends dissertation<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-05-08T13:57:07-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">May 8, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">On Friday, May 1, Aisha Fuddah successfully defended her dissertation, entitled The syntax of yes-no questions and their answers in Hijazi Arabic. Congratulations, Dr. Fuddah!<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/linguistics\/important-linguistics-update-for-fall-2026-registration\/\">Important Linguistics Update for Fall 2026 Registration<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-04-24T13:25:12-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">April 24, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Greetings Linguistics undergraduates! Starting in Fall 2026, there are some&nbsp;changes to the requirements&nbsp;for the major. These are designed to make things easier for students and also to introduce some new curricular areas. The good news is that existing majors can choose to complete the major using&nbsp;either&nbsp;the old requirements&nbsp;or&nbsp;the new requirements. The updates are summarized below &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/linguistics\/starr-publishes-chapter-in-new-frontiers-and-connections-in-second-language-acquisition\/\">Starr publishes chapter in &#8220;New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition&#8221;<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-04-23T08:49:15-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">April 23, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Faculty member Glenn Starr published a chapter in&nbsp;New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) Conference. The selection focuses on the role that inhibitory control plays in second language learners&#039; sensitivity to context. In particular, the work examines awareness of the &#039;Question Under &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/linguistics\/fleisher-talks-at-uchicago\/\">Fleisher talks at UChicago<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-04-14T17:15:52-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">April 14, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Faculty member Nick Fleisher was on the road last week to give a colloquium presentation on his current research at the University of Chicago Department of Linguistics, with a talk entitled &quot;Something all its own: on English own possessives.&quot;<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/linguistics\/uwm-linguistics-will-be-well-represented-at-the-39th-annual-symposium-on-arabic-linguistics-asal-39-indiana-which-will-take-place-at-indiana-university-in-march\/\">UWM Linguistics will be well represented at the 39th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (ASAL 39 Indiana)<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-02-05T15:04:26-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">February 5, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">UWM Linguistics will be well represented at the 39th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (ASAL 39 Indiana), which will take place at Indiana University in March The following doctoral students will present their work: Answering systems and proposition salience: Evidence from Hijazi Arabic, by Aisha Fuddah Arabic Heritage Speakers\u2019 Perception of Emphatic\u2013Plain Contrasts: The Influence &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/linguistics\/glenn-starr-publishes-new-article-in-the-journal-of-memory-and-language\/\">Glenn Starr publishes new article in\u00a0the\u00a0Journal of Memory and Language<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-01-23T10:17:45-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">January 23, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Dr. Glenn Starr together with his colleague Dr. Greta Mazzaggio from the University of Florence recently published the article &quot;The semantics behind the inference: How first language quantifier systems shape scalar reasoning in second language learners&quot; in the\u00a0Journal of Memory and Language. Glenn thanks Dr. Pycha, Dr. Fleischer, Dr. Park, Dr. Ouali, and Dr. Davis &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/linguistics\/glenn-starr-featured-in-uwm-ls-infocus-publication\/\">Glenn Starr featured in UWM L&amp;S InFocus publication<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-12-08T07:34:32-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">December 8, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Faculty member Glenn Starr was featured in the most recent issue of UWM L&amp;S InFocus publication. Congratulations, Dr. Starr! https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/in-focus\/research-news\/we-need-some-context-uwm-linguists-research-reveals-cognitive-patterns-in-language\/ &nbsp;<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/linguistics\/dong-jin-kim-phd-2024-presents-at-asa\/\">Dong Jin Kim (PhD 2024) presents at ASA<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-12-08T07:29:15-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">December 8, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Last week, Dong Jin Kim (PhD 2024), co-authoring with Hanyong Park, presented a poster at the Sixth Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan in Honolulu, Hawaii. The title of the poster was \u201cProduction-based training and its effects on the perception of segmental and prosodic contrasts: The role &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/linguistics\/joy-alcorn-ma-24-presents-at-psychonomics-conference\/\">Joy Alcorn (MA &#8217;24) presents at Psychonomics Conference<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-11-26T08:40:06-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">November 26, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">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, &quot;Differences in working memory strategies between monolinguals and bilinguals demonstrated by performance on a dual-task Corsi blocks task,&quot; co-authored with faculty member Anne Pycha. Congratulations, Joy! &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/linguistics\/pycha-presents-at-midphon-2025\/\">Pycha presents at MidPhon 2025<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-10-13T11:19:06-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">October 13, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Faculty member Anne Pycha travelled to Indiana University to present at the 30th annual Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology conference. Her poster was entitled, &quot;Comparing implicit phonological knowledge of humans and LLMs.&quot;<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/linguistics\/two-new-articles-by-lee-and-park\/\">Two new articles by Lee and Park<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-10-13T11:15:47-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">October 13, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Two new articles by Jieun Lee (PhD 2022) and Hanyong Park have just been published: &quot;Can lower inhibitory control lead to better second language phonological contrast learning&quot;\u00a0in Linguistic Research, &quot;The role of speaking rates in High Variability Phonetic Training&quot;\u00a0in Phonetics and Speech Sciences. Congratulations, Drs. 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