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The Department of LinguisticsDepartment 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! …
Read MoreThe biannual Speech Prosody conference is taking place this week in Dublin, Ireland. UCLA phoneticians (current and former) will be well-represented! Ann Bailey, Intonational Phonology of Cuban Spanish: A Preliminary…
Read MorePat Keating presented a poster entitled “Acoustic measures of falsetto voice” at the Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Providence this week.
Read MoreMegha Sundara is a co-author on a paper that recently appeared in the May Issue of Journal of Child Language. Thierry Nazzi, Karima Mersad, Megha Sundara, Galina Iakimova, Linda Polka….
Read MorePat Keating, together with cross-campus colleagues organized UCLA’s first every participation in World Voice Day. There were three stations that showcased interactive exhibits about voice science, staffed in part by…
Read MorePat Keating writes: Hi everyone, I and some colleagues on campus have organized UCLA’s first-ever participation in World Voice Day, April 16 – Wednesday of this week. We will have…
Read MoreEd Keenan’s 1987 volume, “Universal Grammar: 15 Essays,” has been reprinted, this time by Routledge (much to Ed’s pleasant surprise!). Congrats Ed!
Read MoreSun-Ah Jun will be giving a colloquium at UCSC this Friday, April 11. Her talk is entitled: “Prominence and Phrasing in Ambiguity Resolution: Evidence from Priming and Individual Differences”
Read MoreJesse Harris, currently an Assistant Prof. at Pomona College, will be joining the department as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2014. Welcome Jesse!
Read MoreUCLA linguists (both present and former) will be giving talks at this year’s meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS 50). Byron Ahn: “Reflexes of Reflexivity: Locality and the Interfaces”…
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