The Department of Linguistics

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1. Jobs

   Tenure or Tenure-Track Phonology Professor Position

   Sep 14, 2023 - The UCLA Department of Linguistics seeks to fill a faculty position (tenured or tenure-track), starting July 1, 2024, for a specialist in phonology. The core qualification for...

2. Jobs

   Now Hiring for an Undergraduate Part-Time Peer Advisor Position!

   Sep 5, 2023 - Dear Linguistics Undergraduates, I am so excited to announce that the Linguistics Department is now hiring for a part-time Peer Advisor position! The Peer Advisor will work closely alongside me to provide academic...

3. Journal Publications, Publications

   Katya Khlystova publishes her MA in Journal of Phonetics

   Sep 5, 2023 - Katya Khlystova publishes her MA in Journal of Phonetics, Khlystova, E. A., Chong, J., & Sundara, M. (2023). Phonetic variation in English infant-directed speech: A large-scale corpus...

4. General

   Short Wave: Why Babies Babble And What It Can Teach Adults About Language

   Aug 16, 2023 - In which we metaphorically enter the UCLA Language Acquisistion Lab's recording castle, guided by linguistics researcher Dr. Megha Sundara. NPR science correspondent Sydney Lupkin temporarily takes over...

5. General

   NSF support for Katya Khlystova

   Aug 3, 2023 - Big congratulations to Katya Khlystova, and advisor Laurel Perkins, for earning a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation. Katya's project, "Computational Investigation of Extralinguistic Cognition in...