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The Department of LinguisticsSean Brenner/UCLA Humanities Jessica Rett uses logical frameworks to model how people understand meaning in real time. Jessica Rett, whose research combines formal semantics, pragmatics and the philosophy of language,…
Read MoreMegha Sundara, PhD Megha Sundara, chair of the UCLA Department of Linguistics and director of the Language Acquisition Lab at UCLA, has been appointed the Bruce Hayes Centennial Professor of Linguistics. Sundara’s…
Read MorePlease join us in congratulating Dr. Daria Bahtina on receiving the 2026 UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award in Undergraduate Mentorship! This well-deserved honor is UCLA’s highest recognition for teaching excellence. The…
Read MoreOur 2022 Ph.D alumus Canaan Breiss has accepted an offer as a Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. Congratulations, Canaan!
Read MoreCongratulations to Dr. Giusi Silvestri for receiving a UC-AFT Council on Professional Development award for the project, “Syntax and semantics of expletive negation in Romance languages.”
Read MoreOur 2023 Ph.D. Hironori Katsuda has accepted a postdoctoral position at a prestigious laboratory, the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour, under the direction of Prof. Jen Hay….
Read MoreEmma Montilla, who graduated in June 2025 graduate with a bachelor’s in applied linguistics, is among 12 UCLA students and recent graduates selected for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program in…
Read MoreThe UCLA Department of Linguistics proudly congratulates Professor Victoria Mateu on being selected as a recipient in the inaugural cohort of UCLA’s Global Teaching and Research Grants. Through this award,…
Read MoreCongratulations 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 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…
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