The department newsletter of the Department of Linguistics at UCLA
Volume 11 (2010-11, prepared July 2011)
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The department newsletter of the Department of Linguistics at UCLA Volume 11 (2010-11, prepared July 2011)
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Kristine Yu (Ph.D. 2011) will take up a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts starting in Fall 2012. In the meantime she will be working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland.
Kevin Ryan (Ph.D. 2011) will take up a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University starting in Fall 2011.
Ingvar Lofstedt (Ph.D. 2010) will soon begin work in a faculty position in the English Departmet at Hangsung University in Seoul, Korea.
Benjamin George (Ph.D. 2011) is headed for a postdoctoral scholar position in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT.
Jason Kandybowicz (Ph.D. 2006) is moving from Swarthmore College to a tenure-track position at the University of Texas, Arlington.
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Prof.
Megha Sundara, has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.
Congratulations, Megha!
Image: Prof. Sundara working with a young experimental participant in the department's Infant Lab. |
Graduate student Nancy Ward won the Best Paper in Speech Communication at the Acoustical Society of America meeting in Cancun. This is two years in a row for Nancy!
UCLA Linguists at International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
UCLA phonetics and phonology were well-represented at the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences in Hong Kong in August 2011. Current department members who presented talks or posters at the conference were Jason Bishop, Robert Daland, Marc Garellek, Bruce Hayes, Sun-Ah Jun, Pat Keating, Jianjing Kuang, Grace Kuo, and Kristine Yu. Alums attending the Congress included conference chair Eric Zee (Ph.D. 1980) and plenary speaker Ian Maddieson (Ph.D. 1977), as well as Taehong Cho (Ph.D. 2001), Edward Fleming (Ph.D. 1995), Sameer Khan (Ph.D. 2008), Sahyang Kim (Ph.D. 2004), Kuniko Nielsen (Ph.D. 2008), John Ohala (Ph.D. 1969), and Manjari Ohala (Ph.D. 1972). Other Ph.D. alums who were co-authors of papers, but did not attend, included Mary Baltazani, Christina Esposito, Sean Fulop, Louis Goldstein, Chris Golston, and Rebecca Scarborough. Several former postdocs and visitors were also at the Congress. The photo below is from the UCLA dinner on August 20, organized by Pat, Kristine, and 2011 departmental scholar and Hong Kong resident Irene Lam, who was also a talk co-author. [seated, left to right: Kristine Yu, Marc Garellek, Pat Keating, Jason Bishop, Bruce Hayes; standing, left to right: Irene Lam, Robert Daland, Xiao Liu, Jianjing Kuang, Taehong Cho, Manjari Ohala, Sahyang Kim, Cecile Fougeron, Vincent van Heuven, Lawrence Cheung, John Ohala, Sameer Khan, Kuniko Nielsen]
Photo by Sameer Khan.
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Prof. Pat Keating has been elected Secretary of the International Phonetic Association. |
Prof. Jessica Rett has won a Faculty Career Development Award.
Many of our students won UCLA-internal fellowships; details to follow...
Byron Ahn talking shop with Noam Chomsky on his May 2011 visit to Los Angeles.
Laura Kalin, standing ready by her poster on Hixkaryana syntax.
Friends and colleagues, graduate students Lauren Winans, Laura McPherson, Kaeli Ward, and Laura Kalin.
A small reunion of UCLA phoneticians, past and present, at the LabPhon conference in Alburquerque. Affiliations of alums are listed.
Left to right:
front row: Kristine Yu, Jianjing Kuang, Marie Huffman (SUNY Stony Brook), Pat Keating, Kuniko Nielsen (Oakland University), Rebecca Scarborough (University of Colorado)
middle row: Sameer Khan (Brown University), Christina Esposito (Macalester College)
back row: Marc Garellek, Karen Emmorey (San Diego State University), [Peggy Renwick, Cornell University], Abby Cohn (Cornell University)
Thanks to Laura Kalin and Pat Keating for the pictures.