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The Department of LinguisticsThe Department will be hosting a meeting of the Friends of Linguistics this evening at the UCLA Faculty Center. This year’s speaker is Assoc. Prof. Megha Sundara. See attached flyer…
Read MoreBoth Lauren Winans and Ed Keenan presented at the recent Workshop on Semantic Variation at the University of Chicago. Ed Keenan was an invited speaker along with department alumnus, Ivano…
Read MoreThe annual Boston University Conference of Language Development took place recently (Nov 1 – 3). UCLA was well represented by a number of talks and posters: 1) Jamie White (Ph.D….
Read More————————————————————————————————- UCLA Linguists At The 2013 LSA Linguistic Institute (Also posted on Department’s news page) Pat Keating writes: The department was well-represented at the month-long Institute in Ann Arbor this…
Read MoreThe once-every-five years International Congress of Linguists is currently taking place in Geneva. A number of UCLA linguists (faculty, graduate students and alumni) will be presenting their work. Byron Ahn:…
Read MoreJason Riggle (Ph.D. 2004) is quoted in this month’s issue of The Atlantic, in “Talk to the Hands: Why some gestures die out and others endure.”
Read MoreBoth the College of Letters and Science and the Humanities Division held commencement ceremonies this past weekend. Russ Schuh (Dir. Undegraduate Studies) writes that the linguistics contingent was significantly larger…
Read MoreThis past quarter we’ve enjoyed a terrific series of colloquium talks by seven finishing Ph.D. students – an unusually high number of student talks in a single quarter. Many thanks,…
Read MoreChad Vicenik (Ph.D. 2011) and Megha Sundara’s paper “The role of intonation in language and dialect discrimination by adults” has just appeared in Journal of Phonetics.
Read MoreRichard Wright of the University of Washington Linguistics Department (Ph.D. 1997) has been promoted to full professor, effective in fall 2013. Congratulations, Richard!
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