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The Department of LinguisticsCongratulations to 4th year PhD student Canaan Breiss and Professor Bruce Hayes for having their paper recently accepted to Language. The title of the paper is “Phonological markedness effects in sentence formation.” You can find a pre-print here.
Read More4th year PhD candidate Connor Mayer has had his paper “An algorithm for learning phonological classes from distributional information” accepted to Phonology. This work was based on his UCLA master’s paper. You can find a pre-print here. Congratulations, Connor!
Read MoreShown in the photo are Bruce Hayes, Theresa and Henry Biggs, and Dean David Schaberg. On Oct. 30, the department celebrated the establishment of the Theresa A. and Henry P. Biggs Centennial Term Chair in Linguistics with a reception and lecture. The Chair has been endowed by the Biggses to honor Prof. Bruce Hayes,…
Read MoreIn addition to having just received his PhD from UCLA, Nikos Angelopoulos has also published an article in Glossa. The article is titled “Reconstructing Clitic Doubling,” and you can find it here. Congratulations Dr. Angelopoulos!
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UCLA linguists turned up for CAMP (CAlifornia Meeting on Psycholinguistics) 3, held at the woodsy UC Santa Cruz October 26-27, 2019. Participants persevered even as the power was cut on day two of the workshop! Mapping Remnant and Correlate in Persian Stripping – Vahideh Rasekhi & Jesse Harris Processing coordination ambiguity in context: Eye-tracking evidence…
Read MoreCongratulations to Jessica Rett! The 2020 winner of the Linguistic Society of America’s Linguistic Service Award is the “Pop-Up Mentoring Program (PUMP)”, whose organizers facilitate short-term mentoring of linguists by linguists. Our own Jessica Rett is one of the six organizers receiving the award, which will be presented at the New Orleans Annual Meeting in…
Read MoreRichard Stockwell & Deborah Wong will be presenting their paper “Sprouting and the structure of ‘except’-phrases” at the upcoming 50th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 50) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 25th – 27th, 2019
Read MoreThis past Summer, Minqi Liu attended the third Crete Summer School of Linguistics, (CreteLing 2019), at the University of Crete. She also presented a joint work with Nina Hyams and Victoria Mateu in the 14th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference, (GALA 14), in Milan, Italy. The talk was entitled Sluicing in Child Mandarin: Effects…
Read MoreJeremy Steffman (4th year PhD candidate) published two papers at the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA), one by himself and the other with Sun-Ah Jun. Congratulations!!! Below is the publication info. Steffman, J. (2019). Phrase-final lengthening modulates listeners’ perception of vowel duration as a cue to coda stop voicing. The Journal of the…
Read MoreVanessa Zamorra is a recent UCLA graduate who is pursuing a post-bac in SLP. She is Latina, and is highly concerned about the lack of Spanish-speaking therapists in the community. She has started an Instagram page documenting her journey to becoming an SLP. If you are interested in watching her journey, or if you want…
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