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The Department of LinguisticsProf. Ed Keenan has received an Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, given to Who’s Who biographees who have demonstrated leadership, excellence and longevity within their respective industries and professions….
Read MoreSophia Luo received a departmental Undergraduate Research and Travel Award for her participation in the Fall Acoustical Society of America meeting. Sophia assisted with the project “Tongue bracing under bite…
Read MoreGraduate student Canaan Breiss and lab manager Stephanie Rich have each received the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, a highly competitive award that provides three years of financial support during five years…
Read MoreOur graduate student Connor Mayer received a SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) Doctoral Award from the Canadian government, under the application title Embodied primitives in phonological theory! The…
Read MoreElahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali, a renowned linguist, founded Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute in 2000. A donation of $1 million from Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute will establish the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Postdoctoral Fellowship…
Read MoreThe UCLA Linguistics Department is pleased to announce the new Undergraduate Research and Travel Awards. Starting immediately, we will be accepting applications for these awards on a rolling basis to…
Read MorePat Keating is a co-investigator on a new 3-year NSF grant to UCLA, “Variance and invariance in voice quality: Implications for machine and human speaker identification”. In an earlier phase…
Read MoreIara Mantenuto received one of the ten Mellon-EPIC Fellowships in Teaching Excellence for PhD students in the Humanities and History at UCLA for Fall 2017.
Read MoreProf. Benjamin Lewis, lecturer in American Sign Language, has just been named one of three awardees of the Distinguished Teaching Award for Non-Senate Faculty for his outstanding teaching. Prof. Lewis teaches American…
Read MoreProf. Hilda Koopman is a winner of a 2017 Transdisciplinary Seed Grant, along with her collaborators Dennis Shasha (NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences) and Yizhou Sun (Computer Science, UCLA Henry Samueli…
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