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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…

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…

Category: Faculty, General

Tenure for David Goldstein

Published: February 26, 2019

Prof. David Goldstein, of the Linguistics Department and the Program in Indo-European Studies, has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure as of July 1, 2019. Congratulations, David!

Category: Awards, Faculty, General

Ed Keenan receives Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award

Published: December 17, 2018

Prof. Ed Keenan has received an Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, given to Who’s Who biographees who have demonstrated leadership, excellence and longevity within their respective industries and professions….

Category: Faculty, General, Talks

Jessica Rett featured on Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

Published: November 29, 2018

Associate Professor Jessica Rett was recently featured on a popular podcast, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness. The episode dealt with the question of how we know what words mean,…

Category: Conferences, Faculty, Graduate Students, Talks

UCLA at BUCLD 49

Published: November 15, 2018

Victoria Mateu & Nina Hyams; Megha Sundara & Connor Mayer; and Jesse Harris & Sun-Ah Jun (among other non-UCLA members) presented their work at the 43rd annual Boston University Conference…

Category: Conferences, Faculty, Talks

Pat Keating at PCC-2018

Published: November 15, 2018

Pat Keating, President of the IPA, was an invited speaker at Jinan University in Guangzhou China, Nov. 10-11, for the 13th Phonetic Conference of China. She helped open the conference,…

Category: Alumni, Conferences, Faculty, Graduate Students

UCLA at Fall 2018 ASA meeting

Published: November 15, 2018

Two department members presented posters at the recent Acoustical Society of America meeting: Matt Faytak (The Suzhou Chinese “apical” and “fricative” vowels: Uniformity and idiosyncrasy) and Connor Mayer (A biomechanical…

Category: Alumni, Conferences, Faculty, Graduate Students, Talks

Jesse Harris, Jeremy Steffman and Z.L. Zhou at ETAP4

Published: November 6, 2018

Professor Jesse Harris and graduate students Jeremy Steffman and Z.L. Zhou presented talks and posters at the 4th Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP). They were joined by Byron…

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

UCLA linguistics at NELS49

Published: October 15, 2018

Travis Major & Connor Mayer; Victoria Mateu & Nina Hyams; and Shu-hao Shih presented their work at the 49th annual North East Linguistics Society meeting at Cornell University, Ithaca, October…

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Claire Moore-Cantwell and Ethan Poole accept faculty positions

Edward L. Keenan Mathematics & Language Graduate Fund

Tenure for David Goldstein

Ed Keenan receives Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award

Jessica Rett featured on Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

UCLA at BUCLD 49

Pat Keating at PCC-2018

UCLA at Fall 2018 ASA meeting

Jesse Harris, Jeremy Steffman and Z.L. Zhou at ETAP4

UCLA linguistics at NELS49

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