{"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":"2026-01-22T16:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T22:03:22","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\/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\/\">51ÁÔÆæ 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\">51ÁÔÆæ 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 51ÁÔÆæ 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 51ÁÔÆæ 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. Lee and Park!<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/linguistics\/alshammeri-to-present-at-lsa-2026\/\">Alshammeri to present at LSA 2026<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-09-26T11:57:39-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">September 26, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Congratulations to Reem Alshammeri, whose paper\u00a0\u2018Ditransitive Constructions in Najdi Arabic\u2019\u00a0has been accepted for an in-person poster presentation at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting, to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, in January 2026.<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/linguistics\/quigley-to-indiana\/\">Quigley to Indiana<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-09-15T10:20:45-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">September 15, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Daniel Quigley (PhD 2025) is off to Indiana University, where he will be a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Possible Minds. Daniel writes, &quot;I will be working on semantics, various representations of meaning in language and semiotics, and conversation dynamics.&quot; Congratulations, Daniel!<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/linguistics\/linguistics-receives-several-surf-awards\/\">Linguistics receives multiple SURF Awards<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-09-04T13:41:05-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">September 4, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">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 &quot;The Role of Cognitive Abilities in Second Language Sound Learning,&quot; under the direction of faculty member Hanyong Park.\u00a0In this project, they will investigate whether learners&#039; inhibitory control accounts &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/linguistics\/kim-and-park-at-cogneuroidall\/\">Kim and Park at CogNeuroIDALL<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-05-27T17:17:55-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">May 27, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">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. 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