Job postings in Linguistics

The Department is advertising three tenure-track faculty positions, in phonology, syntax, and first language acquisition.

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The UCLA Linguistics Department focuses on the scientific study of language in all aspects. The fields represented include phonetics, phonology, syntax, and semantics, as well as the interdisciplinary areas of psycholinguistics, language acquisition, historical linguistics, and mathematical linguistics. The department has a strong emphasis on linguistic theory as well as on fieldwork and experimental study. Three laboratories are housed in...

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Latest News

  1. Conferences

    UCLA at CUSP 11!

    Oct 17, 2018 - UCLA will be represented at California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics (CUSP) 11, held October 27-28 at UC Berkeley. Maura O'Leary will be presenting joint work with Adrian...

  2. Conferences, Faculty, General, Graduate Students, Talks

    UCLA linguistics at NELS49

    Oct 15, 2018 - Travis Major & Connor Mayer; Victoria Mateu & Nina Hyams; and Shu-hao Shih  presented their work at the 49th annual NorthEast Linguistics Society meeting at Cornell University,...

  3. Conferences, Faculty, Graduate Students, Talks

    Ed Keenan and Jacob Aziz at 14ICAL

    Oct 15, 2018 - Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Edward Keenan gave a keynote address at ICAL (International Conference of Austronesian Languages) at the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar. One of our new...

  4. Faculty, Publications, Talks

    Ed Keenan’s new book & lecture series

    Oct 15, 2018 - Professor Keenan has published a new book: Eliminating the Universe (Logical Properties of Natural Language) by World Scientific Press. He also gave a one month series of lectures on...

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Upcoming Events

  1. Phonetics Seminar

    Phonetics Seminar: Matt Faytak, “Articulatory uniformity and re-use: Evidence from L2 French and fricative vowels”

    October 22 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
  2. Semantics tea

    Semantics Seminar

    October 23 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  3. American Indian Seminar

    American Indian Seminar – Travis Major

    October 23 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
  4. Phonology Seminar

    Phonology Seminar: Joint meeting with USC, speaker TBA

    October 24 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
  5. Syntax and Semantics Seminar

    Syntax Seminar: Show and tells!

    October 24 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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