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The Department of LinguisticsPlease join us in welcoming Michelle Yuan as an Assistant Professor for the Department of Linguistics. She will officially be on campus with us starting in January of 2024!
Read MoreCongratulations 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 MoreCongratulations 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…
Read MoreCongratulations 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…
Read MoreUCLA 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….
Read MoreCongratulations 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!
Read MoreCongratulations 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…
Read MoreThe 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,…
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 MoreOur very own Nina Hyams has been chosen to be an LSA Fellow. She will be inaugurated into the 2020 class this January. Congratulations, Nina!
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