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Category: Celebrations, Faculty, General, Graduate Students

Linguistics End of Year – 5K Event 2019

Published: July 11, 2019

The Linguistics Department’s End of Year 5K Run is an annual, end of the academic year celebration. This year the 5K run was held at Professor Emeritus Ed Keenan’s home on Friday, June 14th. The 5K run includes a spirited walk and run among students and faculty, along with catering from Juan’s Taco Truck, and…

Category: Alumni, Celebrations, Faculty, General, Graduate Students

Linguistics Commencement 2019

Published: July 11, 2019

The Linguistics Department would like to congratulate the recent undergraduate and graduate students who were honored this past June 15th, 2019. The graduation reception took place in Royce Hall, room 314. The graduates included Eleanor Glewwe, Zhuo Chen (not pictured), Richard Stockwell (not pictured), Tyler Carson, Angelica Pan, and Joy Wu. Again, congratulations to our…

Category: Celebrations, Faculty, General

Stefan Keine to join faculty in July 2020

Published: May 24, 2019

We are delighted to announce that Stefan Keine has accepted a faculty position in the department, effective July 1, 2020. We look forward to welcoming him then!

Category: Faculty, General

Tenure for Tim Hunter

Published: May 16, 2019

Prof. Tim Hunter, of the Linguistics Department and the Program in Computational Linguistics, has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure as of July 1, 2019. Congratulations, Tim!

Category: Faculty, Fieldwork, Jobs, Staff

Temporary faculty positions in Linguistics for next year

Published: May 14, 2019

The department is advertising for the following faculty for next year: – Assistant Adjunct Professor in language acquisition/syntax/semantics Two-year position, ad closes 21 May 2019 or until filled https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF04479 – Lecturer in phonetics and phonology One-year position, ad closes 17 June 2019 https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF04560 – Lecturer in Applied Linguistics One-year position, ad closes 26…

Category: Faculty, General

Prof. Pam Munro and her work on the Tongva language featured in the Los Angeles Times

Published: May 12, 2019

Prof. Pam Munro’s linguistic revitalization work on Tongva has been showcased in the LA Times, together with interviews of both herself and members of the class she leads. The title of the article is “Tongva, Los Angeles’ first language, opens the doors to a forgotten time and place” and it was published on May 9th, 2019.

Category: Conferences, Faculty, General, Graduate Students, Labs, Talks

UCLA at CUNY 2019

Published: April 1, 2019

UCLA students, faculty, and current visitors presented talks and posters the 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, held at the University of Colorado, Boulder on March 28-31, 2019. Canaan Breiss. Phonotactic markedness increases processing demands in speech production. Jesse Harris, Chie Nakamura, Beth Sturman, and Sun-Ah Jun. Prosody-meaning mismatches in PP ambiguity: Incremental…

Category: Alumni, Faculty, General, Jobs

Victoria Mateu offered faculty position at UCLA

Published: March 22, 2019

It is our great pleasure to announce that Victoria Mateu (PhD 2016) has accepted a tenure track position in the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Effective July 1 Victoria will join the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics. Congratulations Victoria!

Category: Faculty, General, Jobs

Claire Moore-Cantwell and Ethan Poole accept faculty positions

Published: March 22, 2019

We are excited to announce that Claire Moore-Cantwell (UMass 2016) and Ethan Poole (UMass 2017) have accepted our offers, and will join our faculty as of July 2019. Claire’s research is on probabilistic patterns in phonology, using ERP and behavioral experiments and computational modeling. Ethan’s research is in syntax, semantics, and their interface, especially movement…

Category: Faculty, Graduate Students

Edward L. Keenan Mathematics & Language Graduate Fund

Published: March 14, 2019

Prof. Ed Keenan and Dr. Carol Archie have made a generous gift to the department to support fellowships for graduate students who use mathematics to understand language, or who study theoretical computational linguistics. The department is deeply grateful to Ed and Carol. Ed has been at UCLA since 1974; he retired as Distinguished Professor in…

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Linguistics End of Year – 5K Event 2019

Linguistics Commencement 2019

Stefan Keine to join faculty in July 2020

Tenure for Tim Hunter

Temporary faculty positions in Linguistics for next year

Prof. Pam Munro and her work on the Tongva language featured in the Los Angeles Times

UCLA at CUNY 2019

Victoria Mateu offered faculty position at UCLA

Claire Moore-Cantwell and Ethan Poole accept faculty positions

Edward L. Keenan Mathematics & Language Graduate Fund

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