Year: 2018

UW Linguists at MidPhon

A whole host of UW–Madison linguists attended MidPhon 23 this October, held this year at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Both students and faculty members from various UW units gave talks and posters about their research in phonetics and phonology: Sarah Bakst (& co-authors) – Native language differences in adaptation to altered auditory feedback Andrea …

Linguistics Fridays are Back!

Fridays at 4:30 in 201 Van Hise Linguistics Fridays are back this Fall with a great rotation of speakers and discussion groups. In September the Historical Linguistics Reading Group and the Phonology Reading Group will have their first meetings. Colloquium talks will begin in October, with more reading group meetings added later in non-colloquium weeks. …

Mil-talk-ee: Inside the Milwaukee Dialect

An interview with Professor Salmons is featured in a recent article in Milwaukee Magazine by Tom Tolan: Mil-talk-ee: Inside the Milwaukee Dialect.  

Congratulations to Our Graduates!

We are happy to announce the unleashing of another cohort of Linguistics majors onto the world! Graduating in Spring of 2018 was this fantastic group of seniors: Mariah Blake Mercedes Endres Allison Fujimoto Cady Gansen Mathea Jaslowski Hang Jia John Martinez Melissa Moy Bella Newman Katherine Pickup Daniel Quigley Brendan Reichhoff Professors, family, and friends …