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The Department of LinguisticsCongratulations to Laurel Perkins and collaborators, whose paper “Thematic content, not number matching, drives syntactic bootstrapping” was awarded the 2025 Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award by the journal Language Learning…
Read MoreGraduate Student Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the Victoria Fromkin Memorial Prize for Student Excellence in Phonology and will be recognized at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting next year. Congratulations, Jian-Leat!
Read MoreJian-Leat Siah has been awarded the first place in the student poster session at the 2025 LSA Summer Institute. He presented on his MA project, “Learnability of Prosodic End-Weight Effect in…
Read MoreGraduate student Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the Dissertation Fieldwork Fellowship ($1,800), administered by the UCLA International Institute. It will be used to support his fieldwork on Kalabakan Murut, as part of…
Read MoreJian-Leat Siah has been awarded an NSF scholarship to attend the workshop “Abstract and Item-Specific Knowledge Across Domains and Frameworks”, organized by our alum Canaan Briess (now at USC) and…
Read MoreDhanya Charan, a third-year Cognitive Science and Linguistics & Psychology double major at UCLA, was awarded the Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research and Creativity for her honors thesis in…
Read MoreGraduate student, Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the James McCawley Fellowship to attend this year’s LSA Summer Institute at the University of Oregon. Congratulations Jian-Leat!
Read MoreAlum Travis Major (now Assistant Professor at USC) and Harold Torrence have been awarded an NSF grant for the project “The Crosslinguistic Components of Clausal Complementation”. Congratulations Harold and Travis!
Read MoreCongratulations to Professor Harold Torrence on receiving a grant through the Faculty Forward Initiative from the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion! The funding will support the project Supporting URM…
Read MoreCongratulations to Meg Cychosz, who has received an NIH KL2 sub-award (PI Mitchell Wong, UCLA Clinical & Translational Science Institute) ! Project title: Leveraging automatic speech recognition and neuro-imaging to develop…
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