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Congratulations to our Ph.D.s!
Published: June 13, 2014How fast time flies! It’s that time of the year again where the department farewells its departing Ph.D. students. The annual doctoral hooding ceremony took place today together with a farewell reception at the department. Congratulations to those who participated in the ceremony today: Drs. Laura Kalin, Laura McPherson, Kaeli Ward and Grace Kuo (Ph.D….
Read MoreUCLA-ers at AFLA
Published: June 12, 2014A little old news: The 21st Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association took place a couple of weeks ago at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. UCLA’s Kie Zuraw presented both an invited talk and a co-authored paper. Ed Keenan also presented a paper. The titles of the talks can be found below: Kie…
Read MoreOrfitelli heads to Sheffield!
Published: June 11, 2014Robyn Orfitelli (Ph.D. 2012, currently at U. of Iowa) will be taking up a tenure-track position at the University of Sheffield, UK, starting in the Fall. Congratulations Robyn!!
Read MoreSandy Disner in the news!
Published: June 4, 2014Sandy Disner (Ph.D. 1983; now at USC) was interviewed on CNN Newsroom yesterday in relation to the current news story regarding former American P.O.W. Bowe Bergdahl’s potential language attrition.
Read MoreAbner heads to Montclair State!
Published: June 3, 2014Natasha Abner (Ph.D. 2012, currently at U. Chicago) will take up a tenure-track position in the Department of Linguistics at Montclair State University in New Jersey, starting this Fall. Congratulations Natasha!
Read MoreBenjamin George heads to Carnegie Mellon
Published: June 3, 2014Benjamin George (Ph.D. 2011, currently at Yale) will be taking up a tenure-track position in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, starting this Fall. Congratulations Ben!
Read MorePhoneticians at Speech Prosody 2014 in Dublin
Published: May 19, 2014The biannual Speech Prosody conference is taking place this week in Dublin, Ireland. UCLA phoneticians (current and former) will be well-represented! Ann Bailey, Intonational Phonology of Cuban Spanish: A Preliminary AM Model Sun-Ah Jun & Jason Bishop (Ph.D. 2013, currently at CUNY-SI), Implicit prosodic priming and autistic traits in relative clause attachment Canan Ipek (USC)…
Read MoreCharnavel and Mateu at LSRL 44
Published: May 1, 2014Isabelle Charnavel (Ph.D. 2012) and Victoria Mateu will be giving a talk at LSRL 44 in Canada on: Clitic Coreference Restrictions and Antilogophoricity in French and Spanish.
Read MoreBlankenship reports on UCLA Language Materials Project
Published: April 12, 2014At the April conference of the Southwest Association for Language Learning Technology, Barbara Blankenship (Ph.D. 1997) presented a talk on digital materials for language learning. Blankenship coordinates the UCLA Language Materials Project, a website with resources for teachers of less commonly taught languages. The site offers a bibliography of over 9000 materials for teaching 150…
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