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The Department of LinguisticsThe 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 on Friday, June 14th. The 5K run includes a spirited walk and run among students and faculty, along with catering from Juan’s Taco Truck, and…
Read MoreThe Linguistics Department would like to congratulate the recent undergraduate and graduate students who were honored this past June 15th, 2019. The graduation reception took place in Royce Hall, room 314. The graduates included Eleanor Glewwe, Zhuo Chen (not pictured), Richard Stockwell (not pictured), Tyler Carson, Angelica Pan, and Joy Wu. Again, congratulations to our…
Read MoreWe are delighted to announce that Stefan Keine has accepted a faculty position in the department, effective July 1, 2020. We look forward to welcoming him then!
Read MoreProf. Tim Hunter, of the Linguistics Department and the Program in Computational Linguistics, has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure as of July 1, 2019. Congratulations, Tim!
Read MoreThe department is advertising for the following faculty for next year: – Assistant Adjunct Professor in language acquisition/syntax/semantics Two-year position, ad closes 21 May 2019 or until filled https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF04479 – Lecturer in phonetics and phonology One-year position, ad closes 17 June 2019 https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF04560 – Lecturer in Applied Linguistics One-year position, ad closes 26…
Read MoreProf. Pam Munro’s linguistic revitalization work on Tongva has been showcased in the LA Times, together with interviews of both herself and members of the class she leads. The title of the article is “Tongva, Los Angeles’ first language, opens the doors to a forgotten time and place” and it was published on May 9th, 2019.
Read MoreUCLA students, faculty, and current visitors presented talks and posters the 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, held at the University of Colorado, Boulder on March 28-31, 2019. Canaan Breiss. Phonotactic markedness increases processing demands in speech production. Jesse Harris, Chie Nakamura, Beth Sturman, and Sun-Ah Jun. Prosody-meaning mismatches in PP ambiguity: Incremental…
Read MoreIt is our great pleasure to announce that Victoria Mateu (PhD 2016) has accepted a tenure track position in the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Effective July 1 Victoria will join the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics. Congratulations Victoria!
Read MoreWe are excited to announce that Claire Moore-Cantwell (UMass 2016) and Ethan Poole (UMass 2017) have accepted our offers, and will join our faculty as of July 2019. Claire’s research is on probabilistic patterns in phonology, using ERP and behavioral experiments and computational modeling. Ethan’s research is in syntax, semantics, and their interface, especially movement…
Read MoreProf. Ed Keenan and Dr. Carol Archie have made a generous gift to the department to support fellowships for graduate students who use mathematics to understand language, or who study theoretical computational linguistics. The department is deeply grateful to Ed and Carol. Ed has been at UCLA since 1974; he retired as Distinguished Professor in…
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