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The Department of LinguisticsChad Vicenik (Ph.D. 2011) and Megha Sundara’s paper “The role of intonation in language and dialect discrimination by adults” has just appeared in Journal of Phonetics.
Read MoreSun-Ah Jun will be assuming the role of Director of Graduate Studies in the new academic year. She takes over the role from Nina Hyams who will step down as DGS at the end of the year. Congratulations Sun-Ah and thank you Nina for your years of service to the Department!
Read MoreCongratulations to Bruce Hayes who has been appointed Chair of the Department of Linguistics effective this coming July. Bruce will be taking over the role from Anoop Mahajan who finishes his second term as Chair this coming June. Congratulations Bruce and thank you Anoop for your contributions over the past few years!
Read MoreA number of UCLA linguists presented posters at the Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Montreal this past week. Adam Chong. Towards a model of Singaporean English intonational phonology. Marc Garellek, Robin Samlan, Jody Kreiman, and Bruce Gerratt (Dept. of Head and Neck Surgery). Perceptual sensitivity to a model of the source…
Read MoreBruce Hayes is giving a colloquium talk at the University of Washington today about Saltation in Phonology.
Read MoreSun-Ah Jun writes: I will be giving a talk at the Workshop on Explicit and Implicit Prosody in Sentence Processing, at Univ. of Massachusetts, in May 30-31, which is organized by Lyn Frazier to celebrate the contribution of Janet Fodor to the field of sentence processing. My talk title is “Prosodic Priming and Individual Differences.”
Read MoreMegha Sundara was a co-author on a recently published article in Journal of Child Language. The reference is as follows: Thierry Nazzi, Karima Mersad, Megha Sundara, Galina Iakimova, Linda Polka (2013). Early word segmentation in infants acquiring Parisian French: task-dependent and dialect-specific aspects. Congratulations Megha!
Read MoreJessica Rett and Nina Hyams are heading to Reykjavík, Iceland, to give a talk at the Workshop on Syntactic Issues in Language Acquisition at the 25th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, to be held May 13-15. Their talk is entitled: Copy raising and evidentiality: A view from child language
Read MoreJessica Rett and co-author, Sarah Murray (Cornell), will be presenting a poster at SALT 23, to be held this weekend at UCSC. Their poster is entitled: “A semantic account of mirative evidentials”.
Read MorePat Keating writes: On Saturday April 14, the Phonetics Lab (including the Infant Language Lab) participated in Bruin Day by offering an open house “tour”. Bruin Day is for students who have been admitted to UCLA and their families to visit the campus and decide whether to enroll at UCLA for their undergraduate studies. We…
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