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The Department of LinguisticsIn addition to having just received his PhD from UCLA, Nikos Angelopoulos has also published an article in Glossa. The article is titled “Reconstructing Clitic Doubling,” and you can find it here. Congratulations Dr. Angelopoulos!
Read More(From left to right: Jeanette Schaeffer (PhD 1997), Nikos Angelopoulos (PhD 2019) and Laurie Tuller (Phd 1986))
Read MoreCongratulations to Heather Burnett (PhD 2012) for winning a very prestigious Starting Grant from the ERC (European Research Council). This is awesome! Heather is featured in the following link (scroll down till you hit a picture with the roadsign Just Sayin’ to read about the project). https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/magazine/erc-starting-grant-2019-examples
Read MoreA paper by Connor Mayer (4th year PhD candidate) and Robert Daland (former UCLA faculty) has just been accepted to Linguistic Inquiry. The title of the paper is “A method for projecting features from observed phonological classes.” Click here to see a pre-print. Congratulations, Connor and Robert!
Read MoreMany current and past department members attended the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences in Melbourne, Australia this month. Adam Chong and Pat arranged an evening social at a local bar. The photo above shows Adam Royer, Beth Sturman, Meng Yang, Ho-Hsien Pan (former visiting scholar), Sun-Ah Jun, Mary Baltazani (PhD 2002), Marc Garellek (PhD 2013),…
Read MoreThe Linguistics Department would like to congratulate the recent undergraduate and graduate students who were honored this past June 15th, 2019. The graduation reception took place in Royce Hall, room 314. The graduates included Eleanor Glewwe, Zhuo Chen (not pictured), Richard Stockwell (not pictured), Tyler Carson, Angelica Pan, and Joy Wu. Again, congratulations to our…
Read MoreThere was a good showing of UCLA students and alumni presenting talks and posters at the 27th Manchester Phonology Meeting (mfm) in Manchester, UK. From left to right: Adam Albright (PhD 2002; Professor at MIT), Connor Mayer (3rd year PhD Candidate), Adam Chong (PhD 2017; Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London), Boer Fu (B.A….
Read MoreUCLA linguistics graduate students met with colleagues in academia and industry at a roundtable at the UCLA Career Development Conference for Graduate Students & Postdoctoral Scholars to discuss career paths in linguistics and navigating the intersection of professional life and personal identity. From left: Megan Risdal (M.A linguistics, UCLA, ’15), Marju Kaps (Linguistics PhD candidate,…
Read MoreIt is our great pleasure to announce that Victoria Mateu (PhD 2016) has accepted a tenure track position in the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Effective July 1 Victoria will join the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics. Congratulations Victoria!
Read MoreCurrent and former UCLA Ph.D. students presented at the 6th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC 6), held on February 18-March 4, 2019, at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Methodologies for Teaching Mixtec Tones (Octavio Leon Vazquez and Iara Mantenuto), Traditional Music as a central pillar in language documentation: the case of…
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