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The Department of LinguisticsThe 2015 Annual Meeting on Phonology took place last weekend in Vancouver, Canada. It was held jointly by UBC and Simon Fraser U. Kie Zuraw was one of the plenary…
Read MoreThis year we have a number of new students joining the department. Below is a mini-bio for each one: Luke West Coming from University of Toronto Research interests: phonetics (lexical…
Read MoreThe quadrennial International Congress of Phonetic Sciences took place in Glasgow, Scotland in early August. UCLA had a strong showing with both current and former members in attendance. The UCLA…
Read MoreSun-Ah Jun taught a 4-week course, “Intonational Phonology and Prosodic Typology”, at the LSA Summer Institute at the University of Chicago, which was held in July 6-31, 2015. She was…
Read MoreThis week marks the beginning of the school year here at UCLA, which means there will soon be many more updates coming. Expect posts soon about what has happened over the…
Read MoreIn some delayed news, Jun Yashima (Ph.D. 2015) recently took up a full-time lectureship (Assistant Prof.) at Senshu University in Tokyo. Jun commenced this position in April. Congratulations Jun!
Read MorePat Keating has been elected the next president of the International Phonetic Association; she will take office in August at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, and will serve until…
Read MoreDepartment alumna, Rebecca Scarborough (Ph.D. 2005), who is currently an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department at U. Colorado, Boulder, has recently been awarded tenure! Congratulations Rebecca!
Read MoreDepartment chair, Bruce Hayes, writes: An intensive search has yielded a new Undergraduate Adviser (a.k.a. SAO, Student Affairs Officer) for our department. This is none other than our own Alejandra…
Read MoreWe recently bid farewell to two of our department staff members, Jessika Herrera (undergraduate advisor) and Anya Mancillas (Lab Manager). Jessika will be taking up a similar position in Comparative…
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