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The Department of LinguisticsThe 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 MoreThe 50th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) took place November 6-9, 2025. The following current and former members of our department presented: Laurel Perkins (faculty): “Wh-dependency representations at…
Read MoreGrace Shoemaker, who graduated in 2025 from Linguistics at UCLA, is first author on a new paper out in the journal Health Communications. The paper is co-authored with faculty member…
Read MoreContinuing Lecturer Daria Bahtina was interviewed for The Guardian’s feature on Gen Alpha slang, where she discussed the meaning behind the seemingly meaningless “six-seven.” Her comments highlight how slang fosters…
Read MoreProfessor Pamela Munro was recently featured in LAist for her work helping Angelenos connect with the Tongva language through local plants. The article highlights a guided hike at Coldwater Canyon…
Read MoreProfessor Jessica Rett has an op-ed published in the Los Angeles Times, titled “There’s no neutral language to describe horrific actions.” To read the full piece, click here: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-23/linguist-word-choice-deportation-immigration-enforcement.
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 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…
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