Lab director: Hanyong Park is an associated professor at the department of Linguistics. He is specialized in second language phonetics and speech perception. For further information, check his personal webpage.

Current members:

Ke Zhang. PhD student. kezhang@uwm.edu
phonetics, L1&L2 acquisition, and speech perception

Preston Ruh. Undergraduate student. prruh@uwm.edu
L2 phonetics and semantics

Alumni (with their last known affiliation):
Graduate Research Assistants:
2017-24: Dr. Dong Jin Kim. postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Si Chen’s Linguistics Lab, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
2019-24: Dr. Sujin Oh
2022-23: Amirah Ali M Alruwais. PhD student, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2016-22: Dr. Jieun Lee. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas
2021-22: Fatima Zohra Beldaha
2019-21: Dr. Ruqayyah Althubyani. Faculty, Department of English Language, Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia
2016-17: Laura Kiskunas. Lab manager, managing EEG and PET studies for cochlear implant research. University of Iowa
2012-16: Dr. Zafer Lababidi. Associate Teaching Professor of Arabic, and the Assistant Director and Advisor of the Middle Eastern Studies Program, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Florida State University.
2014-16: Dylan Pearson. Graduate student, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University
2015: Amara Sankhagowit. Teacher, Friendship Public Charter School
2010-15: Dr. Siriporn Lerdpaisalwong. Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
2014-15: Ho Eun Park. Korean instructor, Hanyang Institute of International Education, Seoul, Korea
2012-13: Dr. Li-Ya Mar. Chinese Instructor, Houston Police Department, Texas

Undergraduate Research Assistants:
2023: Adelyn (Addie) Baumann. Undergraduate student, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2022: Royta Harada.Graduate student, Language and Linguistics MA program of Lancaster University, UK.
2022: Sean Weaver. Graduate student, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Cambridge, UK (from fall 2023)
2022: Adam Hoffman. Undergraduate student, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2022: Nathan Strickland. Undergraduate student, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2020-21: Daniel Gugg. Student, Prespeech Pathology post-baccalaureate program.
2021: Kalei Vasquez. Undergraduate student, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2021: Maggie Dobbs. Undergraduate student, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2018-19: Gershon Pevnick, Graduate student, Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences, Brown University
2014-15: Shelby Lang. Graduate student, Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2014-15: Ye Eon Kwak
2014: Nu Ri Jeong. Seoul, Korea
2011-13: Yoon Ju Park. Yoon English School, Seoul, Korea

Current & Previous Collaborators:
Dr. Isabelle Darcy, Professor, Department of Second Language Studies, Indiana University
Dr. Jeong-Im Han, Professor, Department of English language and literature, Konkuk University
Dr. Noah Silbert, Senior Data Scientist, Tubi
Dr. Chung-Lin Martin Yang, Lecturer, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester