Faculty Archives - Department of Linguistics

Megha Sundara and Connor Mayer (now at UCI) get an NSF grant

Published: September 26, 2022

Congratulations 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 against infant experimental data!

Category: Faculty, General, Journal Publications, Publications

New Publication in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Laurel Perkins

Published: October 5, 2021

Congratulations to Laurel Perkins for her paper appearing in this week’s issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper is titled “Eighteen-month-old infants represent nonlocal syntactic dependencies,” written with co-author Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland).

Category: Alumni, Faculty, Journal Publications, Publications

Nikos Angelopoulos and Dominique Sportiche publish in NLLT

Published: January 29, 2021

Congratulations to Nikos Angelopoulos and Dominique Sportiche! Their paper “Clitic dislocations and clitics in French and Greek: from interpretation to structure” appears in the first volume of NLLT 2021. The paper can be accessed through the following link https://rdcu.be/cerMo

Category: Conferences, Faculty, Graduate Students, Talks

UCLA Linguistics at SSILA

Published: January 13, 2021

UCLA linguistics was well represented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA), which was held virtually from January 7-10. Graduate students Madeleine Booth and Elizabeth Sola-Llonch, and Professor Harold Torrence gave a presentation titled “Free Relative Clauses in San Cristóbal Lachirioag Zapotec,” while three…

Category: Awards, Faculty, General

Megha Sundara and Bruce Hayes get an NSF Grant

Published: October 8, 2020

Congratulations to Megha Sundara and Bruce Hayes for receiving National Science Foundation (NSF) award for the years 2020-2024 for their work, Morphological Acquisition in Early Infancy: Experimental and Computational Studies!

Category: Faculty, General, Graduate Students, Journal Publications, Publications

Canaan Breiss and Bruce Hayes publish article in Language

Published: January 8, 2020

Congratulations to 4th year PhD student Canaan Breiss and Professor Bruce Hayes for having their paper recently accepted to Language. The title of the paper is “Phonological markedness effects in sentence formation.” You can find a pre-print here.

Category: Alumni, Conferences, Faculty, Graduate Students

UCLA at Fall 2019 ASA meeting

Published: December 10, 2019

The Department was well-represented at the December 2019 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in San Diego. Current faculty and students who were authors of posters include: Suzy Ahn, Jake Aziz, Phill Barnett, Matt Faytak, Jinyoung Jo, Hiro Katsuda, Pat Keating, Jennifer Kuo, Connor Mayer, Christine Prechtel, Brice Roberts, Jeremy Steffman, Megha Sundara, Gabe…

Category: Awards, Celebrations, Faculty, General

Jessica Rett is receiving the Linguistic Society of America’s Linguistic Service Award

Published: October 23, 2019

Congratulations 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 linguists. Our own Jessica Rett is one of the six organizers receiving the award, which will be presented at the New Orleans Annual Meeting in…

Category: Awards, Faculty

Nina Hyams to be named as an LSA Fellow!

Published: October 2, 2019

Our very own Nina Hyams has been chosen to be an LSA Fellow. She will be inaugurated into the 2020 class this January. Congratulations, Nina!

Category: Faculty, General, Graduate Students, Journal Publications, Publications

Jeremy Steffman published two journal papers at JASA

Published: September 26, 2019

Jeremy Steffman (4th year PhD candidate) published two papers at the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA), one by himself and the other with Sun-Ah Jun. Congratulations!!! Below is the publication info. Steffman, J. (2019). Phrase-final lengthening modulates listeners’ perception of vowel duration as a cue to coda stop voicing. The Journal of the…

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Megha Sundara and Connor Mayer (now at UCI) get an NSF grant

New Publication in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Laurel Perkins

Nikos Angelopoulos and Dominique Sportiche publish in NLLT

UCLA Linguistics at SSILA

Megha Sundara and Bruce Hayes get an NSF Grant

Canaan Breiss and Bruce Hayes publish article in Language

UCLA at Fall 2019 ASA meeting

Jessica Rett is receiving the Linguistic Society of America’s Linguistic Service Award

Nina Hyams to be named as an LSA Fellow!

Jeremy Steffman published two journal papers at JASA

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