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The Department of LinguisticsGraduate 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 MoreHuilei Wang has accepted a postdoc position (Humboldt Research Fellowship) in Göttingen, starting May 2025. She will be working with Hedde Zeijlstra on a syntax-semantics interface project. Many congratulations, Huilei!
Read MoreOur very own Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus Pam Munro and Assistant Professor Ben Eischens were featured in the article, “The past is present,” which shines light on the preservation of…
Read MoreOur very own Professor Meg Cychosz was recognized for her work in expanding the universe of language development research and empowering parents to help their children develop language skills! Read…
Read MoreAlum Adam Chong was recently promoted to Reader at the Queen Mary University London, Department of Linguistics. On September 1, 2025, he will be moving to University of Oxford as Associate Professor in…
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 MoreWe are delighted to thank dear friends of UCLA Linguistics, alumnus Thomas J. Bye, Ph.D. ’76 and steadfast supporter David R. Bohne, for their legacy gift of $1,500,000 to establish…
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 MoreMinqi (Kiki) Liu has recently accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of Chinese Languages and Literature at Fudan University in Shanghai. Many congratulations, Kiki!
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