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The Department of LinguisticsThe department welcomes one new assistant professor and 3 lecturers this academic year. Read about them below: Jesse Harris (Ph.D. UMass, Asst. Prof): My primary research is in language processing,…
Read MoreGraf awarded the Beth Prize! In August, Thomas Graf (Ph.D. 2012, now at Stony Brook) was awarded the Beth Prize for best dissertation in Logic, Language and Linguistics for 2013,…
Read MoreUCLA ph-ers at LabPhon in Tokyo In late July, a number of present and former members of the UCLA Phonetics Lab attended the 14th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 14)…
Read MoreThe UCLA Newsroom just wrote an article titled “UCLA linguist, Gabrielino-Tongva Indians use social media to revive extinct language” that features work by Pam Munro. If anyone uses Facebook, Pam would…
Read MoreJamie White’s (Ph.D. 2013, now at UCL, previously Ottawa) and Megha Sundara’s paper, Biased generalization of newly learned phonological alternations by 12-month-old infants, just came out in Cognition. Congratulations Jamie…
Read MoreThe UCLA Phonetics Lab celebrates its 50th Anniversary today! In true phonetician style there will be IPA Bingo, spectrogram reading and reminiscing of old times through the labs extensive photo…
Read MoreA little old news: The 21st Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association took place a couple of weeks ago at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. UCLA’s Kie Zuraw…
Read MoreUCLA Semanticists Margit Bowler and Yael Sharvit both presented at SALT 24 this weekend at NYU in New York City. Margit Bowler, Conjunction and disjunction in a language without ‘and’….
Read MoreDepartment Chair, Bruce Hayes, writes: Jessica Rett’s tenure has come through — the occasion for a spontaneous and well-attended champagne celebration that spilled from her office into the s-side hallway! …
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