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The Department of LinguisticsNatasha 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 (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 MoreThe 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 MoreIsabelle 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 MoreAt 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…
Read MoreUCLA linguists (both present and former) will be giving talks at this year’s meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS 50). Byron Ahn: “Reflexes of Reflexivity: Locality and the Interfaces” Thomas Graf (Ph.D., 2013; now at Stony Brook): “Feature Geometry and the Person Case Constraint: An Algebraic Link” Additionally, Bruce Hayes will be delivering an…
Read MoreIsabelle Charnavel (Ph.D. 2012) and Victoria Mateu recently gave a talk at GLOW 37 in Brussels. The talk was entitled: The Clitic Binding Restriction Revisited: Evidence for Antilogophoricity.
Read MoreJamie White (Ph.D. 2013) who is currently an Assistant Prof. at the University of Ottawa will be heading across the pond to take up a tenure-track position at University College, London. He’ll be joining fellow UCLA alumnus, Nathan Klinedinst, who is also a faculty member in the Department of Linguistics. Congratulations Jamie!
Read MoreSun-Ah Jun presented a poster, co-authored with alumnus, Jason Bishop (Ph.D. 2013, now at CUNY Staten Island), at the recent CUNY Sentence Processing Conference held at Ohio State (March 13-15). Their poster was entitled: Priming of implicit prosody and individual differences
Read MoreUCLA was well-represented at the most recent WCCFL across town at USC. Both present and former students were well-represented. Yael Sharvit gave one of the of the invited talks. Her talk was entitled “Non-definite Definites”. Jesse Zymet: “Distance-Based Decay in Long-Distance Phonological Processes” Canan Ipek (USC) & Sun-Ah Jun: “Marking prosodic prominence in Turkish” Isabelle Charnavel (Ph.D. 2012, now…
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