Alumni News – Linguistics

Dong Jin Kim (PhD 2024) presents at ASA

pycha@uwm.edu — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:29:15 +0000

Last week, Dong Jin Kim (PhD 2024), co-authoring with Hanyong Park, presented a poster at . The title of the poster was “Production-based training and its effects on the perception of segmental and prosodic contrasts: The role of explicit vs. implicit learning.” Congratulations, Dr. Kim!

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Joy Alcorn (MA ’24) presents at Psychonomics Conference

pycha@uwm.edu — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:40:06 +0000

Last weekend, Joy Alcorn (MA 2024) presented a poster at the in Denver, Colorado. Her poster was entitled, “Differences in working memory strategies between monolinguals and bilinguals demonstrated by performance on a dual-task Corsi blocks task,” co-authored with faculty member Anne Pycha. Congratulations, Joy!

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Two new articles by Lee and Park

pycha@uwm.edu — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:15:47 +0000

Two new articles by Jieun Lee (PhD 2022) and Hanyong Park have just been published:

in Linguistic Research,
in Phonetics and Speech Sciences.

Congratulations, Drs. Lee and Park!

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Quigley to Indiana

Nicholas A Fleisher — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:20:45 +0000

Daniel Quigley (PhD 2025) is off to Indiana University, where he will be a postdoctoral fellow at the . Daniel writes, “I will be working on semantics, various representations of meaning in language and semiotics, and conversation dynamics.”

Congratulations, Daniel!

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Kim and Park at CogNeuroIDALL

Nicholas A Fleisher — Tue, 27 May 2025 22:17:55 +0000

Dong Jin Kim (PhD, 2024) and Hanyong Park presented their research last week at the Language Learning roundtable conference, Cognitive Neuroscience of Individual Differences in Adult Language Learning (CogNeuroIDALL): Future directions, held at the University of Illinois Chicago. Their poster was titled “.”

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Congratulations to 2025 Linguistics graduates

Nicholas A Fleisher — Tue, 20 May 2025 14:33:39 +0000

Congratulations to all of our spring 2025 51�� Linguistics graduates!

BA:

Payton Auel
Kimberly Campos
Melanie Choeun-La
Emma Henkhaus
Hannah Jones
Cassandra Rice
Preston Ruh
Breanna Watson
Luna Whelan

MA:

Victoria Baake

PhD:

Daniel Quigley

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Update from Dylan Pearson BA 2014, MA 2016

dsalba@uwm.edu — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:39:03 +0000

We are thrilled to report that linguistics department alum Dylan Pearson (BA ’14, MA ’16) has recently completed his Ph.D in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at Indiana University. His focuses on the sources of individual variation in hearing loss populations. He is currently working as a post-doctoral scholar in the laboratory of Dr. Pavel Zahorik at the University of Central Florida. Congratulations, Dr. Pearson!

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New article by Oh and Park

Nicholas A Fleisher — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 19:12:13 +0000

A new article by Sujin Oh (PhD 2024) and Hanyong Park has been published in Linguistic Research. It is titled, “The impact of native language on second language rhythm acquisition: Insights from a cross-linguistic and intra-language corpus study.”

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Oh takes positions in Korea

Nicholas A Fleisher — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 21:49:10 +0000

Sujin Oh (PhD 2024) has taken up multiple positions in Korea and is currently teaching as a part-time lecturer at Soongsil University, Sejong University, and Kookmin University. She is also working as a part-time postdoctoral researcher at Seoul National University. Congratulations, Sujin!

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Sean Weaver ’22 earns MPhil from Cambridge University

dsalba@uwm.edu — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 17:05:17 +0000

51�� Linguistics alum Sean Weaver (2022) has graduated from Cambridge University with an MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. He earned a Pass With Distinction, and his dissertation was titled “(Un)fit to purpose: A diachronic investigation of the development of ἵνα in Hellenistic and Early Medieval Greek”. Congratulations, Sean!

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