Faculty News – Linguistics

Fleisher talks at UChicago

Nicholas A Fleisher — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:15:52 +0000

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 “Something all its own: on English own possessives.”

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Glenn Starr publishes new article in the Journal of Memory and Language

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:17:45 +0000

Dr. Glenn Starr together with his colleague Dr. Greta Mazzaggio from the University of Florence recently published the article “” in the Journal of Memory and Language.

Glenn thanks Dr. Pycha, Dr. Fleischer, Dr. Park, Dr. Ouali, and Dr. Davis for help with conceptualization and participant recruitment. Also, he thanks our graduate students Yunhui Kim, Ailar Amany, Anthony Amissah, Mohammed El Fadili, Aisha Fuddah, and Emmanuel Appiah Gyasi for helping to gather participants last year and undergraduate Meadow Conner for helping with item creation. Congratulations!

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Glenn Starr featured in 51�� L&S InFocus publication

pycha@uwm.edu — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:34:32 +0000

Faculty member Glenn Starr was featured in the most recent issue of 51�� L&S InFocus publication. Congratulations, Dr. Starr!

We need “some” context: 51�� linguist’s research reveals cognitive patterns in language

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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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Pycha presents at MidPhon 2025

pycha@uwm.edu — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:19:06 +0000

Faculty member Anne Pycha travelled to Indiana University to present at the 30th annual Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology conference. Her poster was entitled, “Comparing implicit phonological knowledge of humans and LLMs.”

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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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Linguistics receives multiple SURF Awards

pycha@uwm.edu — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 18:41:05 +0000

Several students and faculty members received SURF (Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows) awards this semester.

Kenji Rackoff received a SURF award to work on a project entitled “The Role of Cognitive Abilities in Second Language Sound Learning,” under the direction of faculty member Hanyong Park. In this project, they will investigate whether learners’ inhibitory control accounts for individual differences in learning non-native speech sounds.

Meadow Conner, Lisa Quintero, and Charles Rojas received SURF awards to work on a project entitled “The Poverty of the Stimulus: The case of word-final devoicing in second-language acquisition,” under the direction of faculty members Fred Eckman and Jae Yung Song.

Isa Bright received a SURF award to work on a project titled “Cognitive control and context sensitivity in scalar implicature derivation”, under the direction of faculty member Glenn Starr.

Congratulations, all!

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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 Prof. Garry Davis

Nicholas A Fleisher — Mon, 19 May 2025 14:00:56 +0000

Professor Garry Davis is retiring from the faculty after 39 years at 51��.

Beyond his many scholarly contributions in historical linguistics, Germanic linguistics, and southeast Asian linguistics, he has been a valued colleague, mentor, advisor, and department chair.

We wish him well on a well-earned retirement, and we hope that Professor Emeritus Davis will not be a stranger!

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