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The Department of LinguisticsCongratulations to Megha Sundara and Connor Mayer for receiving a National Science Foundation (NSF) award for the years 2022-2026 for their work, A new approach to computational model evaluation: Benchmarking…
Read MoreNATASHA KOROTKOVA (UCLA Ph.D, 2016) has been hired as an Universitair Docent at University College Utrecht, a liberal arts college within the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. (A Universitair…
Read MoreRICHARD STOCKWELL (UCLA Ph.D., 2020) has been hired as a Lecturer in Linguistics at Ulster University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (A Lecturer position in the UK is roughly equivalent to…
Read MoreMaura O’Leary has just accepted a three-year Visiting Assistant Professorship at Swarthmore College. Maura is a semanticist, field researcher, and teacher who recently defended her dissertation “About time: Lexical, Structural,…
Read MoreCongratulations to Deborah Wong, who defended her dissertation in fall 2020, and will soon be taking up a position as a data scientist at Spectrum Labs, a start-up based in…
Read MorePlease join us in congratulating Sozen Ozkan, who has been offered a position as a Research Project Manager in NLP and Speech Group at ETS in Princeton. We would like…
Read MoreThe department is thrilled to announce a pledge by the Bohne and Bye Trust for a $2,000,000 gift to establish and support a Linguistics Laboratory Program. The eventual gift will…
Read MoreCongratulations to Jessica Rett! The 2020 winner of the Linguistic Society of America’s Linguistic Service Award is the “Pop-Up Mentoring Program (PUMP)”, whose organizers facilitate short-term mentoring of linguists by…
Read MoreMany current and past department members attended the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences in Melbourne, Australia this month. Adam Chong and Pat arranged an evening social at a local bar….
Read MoreThe Linguistics Department’s End of Year 5K Run is an annual, end of the academic year celebration. This year the 5K run was held at Professor Emeritus Ed Keenan’s home…
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