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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 MoreKatie Cunningham, linguistics and English major, selected to perform at 2025 commencement “Katie Cunningham, who will graduate with honors with a degree in linguistics and English, was selected from among…
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 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…
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