Alumni

Category: Alumni, Celebrations

Congratulations to Deborah Wong!

Published: April 6, 2021

Congratulations to Deborah Wong, who defended her dissertation in fall 2020, and will soon be taking up a position as a data scientist at Spectrum Labs, a start-up based in San Fransicso. The company works on text and audio content moderation and detecting toxic behaviors online.

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Category: Alumni, Awards, General

Congratulations to Marju Kaps, recipient of the CUNY Young Scholar Award!

Published: March 5, 2021

Congratulations to Marju Kaps (PhD 2020), who was awarded the Jerrold J. Katz Young Scholar Award for her 2020 talk “Processing coordination ambiguity in context: Eye- tracking evidence from Estonian” at the 33rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Marju recently accepted a lectureship at Birkbeck College, University of London. Congratulations, Marju!

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Category: Alumni, Journal Publications, Publications

Congratulations to Richard Stockwell and Carson Schütze for the publication of their paper!

Published: February 5, 2021

We extend our congratulations to Richard Stockwell, recent Ph.D recipient, and Carson Schütze for the publication of their paper in the journal, English Language and Linguistics. The article is as follows: Stockwell, Richard and Carson T. Schütze (in press). “The puzzling nuanced status of who free relative clauses in English: a follow-up to Patterson and Caponigro (2015).” English Language and Linguistics.

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Category: Alumni, Journal Publications

Congratulations to Megha Sundara of the Language Acquisition Lab and co-authors for publication of two papers!

Published: February 5, 2021

We congratulate the Language Acquisition Lab and Megha Sundara for her work on two articles that have been accepted for publication in the journals Developmental Science and Cognition. The two articles are as follows: “6-month-olds are sensitive to English morphology” by Yun Kim (Emory University) and Megha Sundara to appear in Developmental Science. “Stem similarity modulates infants’ acquisition of phonological…

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Category: Alumni

Jeremy Steffman

Published: December 9, 2020

Congrats to Jeremy Steffman, who has filed his dissertation last week and will start a postdoctoral research position at Northwestern University from January 2021. Visit the Ph.D. Recipient page for more information.

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Category: Alumni, Journal Publications, Publications

Nikos Angelopoulos publishes in Glossa

Published: October 1, 2020

Congratulations to Nikos Angelopoulos (PhD 2019) and coauthors Chris Collins and Arhonto Terzi!  Their paper “Greek and English passives, and the role of by-phrases”  appeared in the September issue of Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 5(1), 90. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1185.

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Category: Alumni, Conferences, Faculty, Graduate Students

UCLA at Fall 2019 ASA meeting

Published: December 10, 2019

The Department was well-represented at the December 2019 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in San Diego. Current faculty and students who were authors of posters include: Suzy Ahn, Jake Aziz, Phill Barnett, Matt Faytak, Jinyoung Jo, Hiro Katsuda, Pat Keating, Jennifer Kuo, Connor Mayer, Christine Prechtel, Brice Roberts, Jeremy Steffman, Megha Sundara, Gabe…

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