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The Department of LinguisticsThe annual Boston University Conference of Language Development took place recently (Nov 1 – 3). UCLA was well represented by a number of talks and posters: 1) Jamie White (Ph.D….
Read More————————————————————————————————- UCLA Linguists At The 2013 LSA Linguistic Institute (Also posted on Department’s news page) Pat Keating writes: The department was well-represented at the month-long Institute in Ann Arbor this…
Read MoreThe once-every-five years International Congress of Linguists is currently taking place in Geneva. A number of UCLA linguists (faculty, graduate students and alumni) will be presenting their work. Byron Ahn:…
Read MoreBoth the College of Letters and Science and the Humanities Division held commencement ceremonies this past weekend. Russ Schuh (Dir. Undegraduate Studies) writes that the linguistics contingent was significantly larger…
Read MoreThis past quarter we’ve enjoyed a terrific series of colloquium talks by seven finishing Ph.D. students – an unusually high number of student talks in a single quarter. Many thanks,…
Read MoreThe Annual Department 5-K run/walk/bike-ride/lay-by-the-pool will be taking place today at Ed Keenan’s home! We’ll be swapping office chairs for some running shoes and celebrating the end of the academic…
Read MoreRuss Schuh writes: The department is offering Linguistics 1 online in the A Summer Session. This is one of only 10 regular Letters and Science courses being offered online and…
Read MoreMembers of the UCLA Phonetics Lab and friends from Head/Neck Surgery participated in the lab’s once-every-few-years human dissection class this week. We got a first hand look at the anatomical…
Read MoreChad 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…
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