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The Department of LinguisticsKristine Yu (PhD 2011) has been awarded tenure at the Linguistics Department at U Mass Amherst. Congratulations Associate Professor Kristine!
Read MoreProf. 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. Congratulations, Ed!
Read MoreAssociate 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, among other things. A recap article on the interview can be found here.
Read MoreTravis Major & Connor Mayer; Victoria Mateu & Nina Hyams; and Shu-hao Shih presented their work at the 49th annual NorthEast Linguistics Society meeting at Cornell University, Ithaca, October 5-7, 2018. http://cornell2018.nelsconference.org/program.html
Read MoreThere are two papers from the infant lab this year in the Journal Cognition. Megha Sundara & Victoria Mateu are the authors of a paper in the December 2018 issue of Cognition, Lexical stress constrains English-learning infants’ segmentation in a non-native language. Cognition, 181, 105-116. Sundara, M., Ngon, C., Skoruppa, K., Feldman, N. H., Onario, G….
Read MoreUCLA linguists were represented at two Linguistics summer schools held in Europe this summer. Tim Stowell co-taught a course on Ellipsis with Jim McCloskey (UCSC) at the 2nd Crete Summer School in Linguistics, held at the Universityof Crete at Rethymno from July 16-27. There were 22 faculty members from universities in the US, Canada, and Europe, and approximately 200 enrolled students. UCLA alums on the…
Read MoreConnor Mayer gave a talk in collaboration with Travis Major titled “A challenge for tier-based strict locality from Uyghur backness harmony” at the 23rd Conference on Formal Grammar, held in Sophia, Bulgaria on August 11th. A proceedings paper is out in Formal Grammar 2018.
Read MoreConnor Mayer presented a poster in collaboration with Megha Sundara called “Does the developing lexicon constraint infants’ discrimination of English vowels?” at the International Congress of Infant Studies, held in Philadelphia from June 30th – July 3rd.
Read MoreTravis Major and Connor Mayer presented their poster “Towards a phonological model of Uyghur intonation” at the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody, which was held in Poznań, Poland from June 12th – June 16th. A proceedings paper is out in the Proceedings of the 9th Speech Prosody International Conference.
Read MoreThere were many current UCLA students and UCLA alumni giving talks or posters at the 2018 Annual Meeting on Phonology, held at UCSD in San Diego from October 5-7, 2018. You can find slides and posters for their presentations on the AMP website. In the picture from left to right are Edward Flemming (PhD 1995;…
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