Linguistics /linguistics/ UW-Milwaukee Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:15:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Fleisher talks at UChicago /linguistics/fleisher-talks-at-uchicago/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:15:52 +0000 /linguistics/?p=13641 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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]]> 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 “.”

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]]> 51 Linguistics will be well represented at the 39th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (ASAL 39 Indiana) /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/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:04:26 +0000 /linguistics/?p=13616 51 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: Congratulations, all!

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]]> 51 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’ Perception of Emphatic–Plain Contrasts: The Influence of Vowel Context and Consonant Position, by Maaly Al Omary
  • Spatial PPs in Najdi, by Hammad Alshammari
  • Ditransitive Structures in Najdi Saudi Arabic, by Reem Alshammeri

Congratulations, all!

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]]> Glenn Starr publishes new article in the Journal of Memory and Language /linguistics/glenn-starr-publishes-new-article-in-the-journal-of-memory-and-language/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:17:45 +0000 /linguistics/?p=13580 Dr. Glenn Starr together with his colleague Dr. Greta Mazzaggio from the University of Florence recently published the article “The semantics behind the inference: How first language quantifier systems shape scalar reasoning in second language learners” in the Journal of Memory …

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]]> 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 /linguistics/glenn-starr-featured-in-uwm-ls-infocus-publication/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:34:32 +0000 /linguistics/?p=2713 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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]]> 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 /linguistics/dong-jin-kim-phd-2024-presents-at-asa/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:29:15 +0000 /linguistics/?p=2709 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 …

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]]> 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 /linguistics/joy-alcorn-ma-24-presents-at-psychonomics-conference/ Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:40:06 +0000 /linguistics/?p=2705 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 …

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]]> 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 /linguistics/pycha-presents-at-midphon-2025/ Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:19:06 +0000 /linguistics/?p=2684 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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]]> 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 /linguistics/two-new-articles-by-lee-and-park/ Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:15:47 +0000 /linguistics/?p=2682 Two new articles by Jieun Lee (PhD 2022) and Hanyong Park have just been published: “Can lower inhibitory control lead to better second language phonological contrast learning” in Linguistic Research, “The role of speaking rates in High Variability Phonetic Training” in Phonetics …

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

Congratulations, Drs. Lee and Park!

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]]> Alshammeri to present at LSA 2026 /linguistics/alshammeri-to-present-at-lsa-2026/ Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:57:39 +0000 /linguistics/?p=2678 Congratulations to Reem Alshammeri, whose paper ‘Ditransitive Constructions in Najdi Arabic’ has been accepted for an in-person poster presentation at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting, to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, in January 2026.

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]]> Congratulations to Reem Alshammeri, whose paper ‘Ditransitive Constructions in Najdi Arabic’ has been accepted for an in-person poster presentation at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting, to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, in January 2026.

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]]> Quigley to Indiana /linguistics/quigley-to-indiana/ Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:20:45 +0000 /linguistics/?p=2674 Daniel Quigley (PhD 2025) is off to Indiana University, where he will be a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Possible Minds. Daniel writes, “I will be working on semantics, various representations of meaning in language and semiotics, and conversation …

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]]> 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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