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The Department of LinguisticsGraduate student Kevin Liang is in the news in Catalonia again. Here is another news article written about this dissertation research on Saltatory alternations in Catalan, and how infants could…
Read MoreGraduate student Kevin Liang was interviewed by some members of the town hall of Parets del Vallès, Catalonia. This is the main city where he is testing infants for his…
Read MoreGraduate student Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the Dissertation Fieldwork Fellowship ($1,800), administered by the UCLA International Institute. It will be used to support his fieldwork on Kalabakan Murut, as part of…
Read MoreAlum Travis Major (now Assistant Professor at USC) and Harold Torrence have been awarded an NSF grant for the project “The Crosslinguistic Components of Clausal Complementation”. Congratulations Harold and Travis!
Read MoreCongratulations to PhD candidate Iara Mantenuto for receiving a Foundation for Endangered Languages Grant! These grants go to “projects that focus on the revitalisation of an endangered language and/or support…
Read MoreThe 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 …
Read MoreMargit Bowler, a 4th year graduate student doing fieldwork in semantics in Walpri, was invited to give a talk at the Stanford Department of Linguistics on November 4th. A short…
Read MoreThird-year student Margit Bowler is currently out in the Australian bush doing fieldwork on Warlpiri. She reports on a ‘minor’ incident involving a car blowing up below (see picture): Kaboom,…
Read MoreA number of department members were out in the field this summer. Here are some field reports: Sozen Ozkan writes: This summer, I started working on Turoyo which is a…
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