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Distinguished Professor of Linguistics Russell Schuh passed away on November 8, 2016. Russ was a beloved colleague and outstanding member of our department in teaching, research, and service. He was an outstanding field linguist, specializing in the Chadic languages of Northern Nigeria, and undertook many field expeditions to Nigeria that led to multiple books and…
Read MoreThis past weekend, The University of Utah hosted The West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. UCLA students and faculty were of those who presented this year. Talks: A linguistic study using social media: Phonotactically-driven rendaku in surnames, Yu Tanaka, UCLA graduate Posters: Bound tense in Relative Clauses: evidence from VP-ellipsis, Sam Alxatib, CUNY & Yael…
Read MoreSCAMP: Southern California April Meeting on Phonology was held at UCSD over the weekend (thank you to Eric Baković (UCSD) for organizing it!). A number of UCLA phonologists had talks/posters: Talk: Adam Chong: Looking under the hood: Korean palatalization and derived environment effects Stephanie Shih (UC Merced) & Kie Zuraw: Phonological conditions on Tagalog adjective-noun…
Read MorePat Keating appears in an article covering what is”vocal fry” and who use it. Vocal Fry Article An open letter Sameer Ud Dowla Khan (PhD 2008, now at Reed) wrote to NPR Show “Fresh Air” was mentioned in an article on self-identity and the style of language one uses to express their identity. Self-identity Article…
Read MoreThis year, we had several students present at the LSA 2016 Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., and our very own Patricia Keating was an invited plenary speaker. Her talk was titled ““Voice Quality Variation Within and Across Languages.” Among the UCLA students, the following are those that presented with their talk titles: Adam Chong –…
Read MoreThe 2015 Annual Meeting on Phonology took place last weekend in Vancouver, Canada. It was held jointly by UBC and Simon Fraser U. Kie Zuraw was one of the plenary speakers with her talk entitled: Morphologically complex words: pure reduction vs. structure Adam Chong also gave a poster presentation: The relationship between static and dynamic…
Read MoreThe quadrennial International Congress of Phonetic Sciences took place in Glasgow, Scotland in early August. UCLA had a strong showing with both current and former members in attendance. The UCLA Phonetics Lab reunion, organized by lab director, Pat Keating, was attended by over 30 current members and alumni. Pat Keating was also inaugurated as the…
Read MoreSun-Ah Jun taught a 4-week course, “Intonational Phonology and Prosodic Typology”, at the LSA Summer Institute at the University of Chicago, which was held in July 6-31, 2015. She was the only current faculty from UCLA, but some of our recent graduates were also teaching there as faculty. They were: Jeff Heinz (Ph.D. 2007, now at…
Read MorePat Keating has been elected the next president of the International Phonetic Association; she will take office in August at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, and will serve until August 2019. The IPA was founded in 1886, and is the oldest professional organization for phonetics. Pat follows two previous IPA presidents from UCLA –…
Read MoreThe 2nd Workshop on Infant Language Development took place in Stockholm last week. Victoria Mateu and Megha Sundara both had poster presentations! Victoria Mateu Martin and Megha Sundara. Cross-linguistic transfer of word segmentation abilities in bilingual infants Megha Sundara, Monika Molnar (BCBL) and Sónia Frota (Lisbon). When infants get the question: The development of boundary…
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