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The Department of LinguisticsGraduate 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…
Read MoreOur very own Mario Peng Lee, who recently graduated this Spring 2024 as a Departmental Honors recipient with a B.A. in Linguistics & Computer Science and Psychology and a minor in Data…
Read MoreCongratulations to Laurel Perkins, who has been awarded an NSF grant with collaborator Jeff Lidz at the University of Maryland (#BCS 2236013 and 2236014). The project, “Non-local syntactic dependency acquisition in infancy,” addresses three questions: (1) Do…
Read MoreProfessor Jody Kreiman has been awarded the Silver Medal in Speech Communication from the Acoustical Society of America, for contributions to understanding the perception and production of the human voice….
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