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Our finishing graduate student, Connor Mayer, will be taking a position in Fall 2021 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Language Science at the University of California, Irvine. Connor is a multidisciplinary specialist in phonology, phonetics, and computational linguistics, with a language specialization in Uyghur. Congratulations, Connor!

Dear 2021 Linguistics Graduating Seniors,   Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we will celebrate your graduation from the Linguistics Department via a virtual department ceremony. Though it was not how you imagined your graduation to be, we will make this celebration as special as possible for all our graduating students.    Our 2021 Virtual Commencement Ceremony will launch on Saturday, June 12, 2021, at 1:00 PM on the Department…

**DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 19, 2021** Calling all 2021 Linguistics Graduating Seniors! It is that time of the year to celebrate the Linguistics undergraduate majors and minors who are graduating! This year, the Linguistics Department will host a virtual department graduation ceremony on Saturday, June 12, 2021. As part of this momentous occasion, we invite…

Professor David Goldstein of our department and the Program in Indo-European Studies has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2022-23 for his project “Cascades of change: How domino effects shape language”. In this project, Professor Goldstein will examine how one linguistic change increases (or decreases) the probability of subsequent changes. See the UCLA news article…

It’s time to evaluate instructors for Winter 2021 courses! Students have until 8:00 AM PST on March 16 to complete confidential evaluations. Students can log in to MyUCLA at any time while the surveys are active to complete them. In addition to completing course evaluations, we would also appreciate student feedback about remote instruction in…

The UCLA Department of Linguistics invites applications for one summer session lecturer position in Intensive American Sign Language (ASL) teaching from June 21 to August 13, 2021 (UCLA Summer Session A). For details, see Job Opportunities