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The Department of LinguisticsMegha Sundara, PhD Megha Sundara, chair of the UCLA Department of Linguistics and director of the Language Acquisition Lab at UCLA, has been appointed the Bruce Hayes Centennial Professor of Linguistics. Sundara’s…
Read MoreThe 44th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 44) took place in Mexico City on May 6–8, 2026, hosted by UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). The following current…
Read MoreFrom April 28 through April 29, 2026 at 9 p.m. PDT, the UCLA community is joining together to make a difference through the power of philanthropy. During the campus-wide giving…
Read MoreOur 2022 Ph.D alumus Canaan Breiss has accepted an offer as a Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. Congratulations, Canaan!
Read MoreCongratulations to Prof. Ben Eischens for receiving an award from the UCHRI’s 2026-2027 Engaging Humanities Grant competition. The project is titled, “UCLA-CBDIO Collaborative Mixtec Curriculum Development”. Prof. Eischens will be…
Read MoreCongratulations to Dr. Giusi Silvestri for receiving a UC-AFT Council on Professional Development award for the project, “Syntax and semantics of expletive negation in Romance languages.”
Read MoreAmerican Sign Language (ASL), as part of the UCLA Linguistics Department, made an impactful showing at UCLA’s World Languages Day (held on January 21, 2026), thanks to the creativity and…
Read MoreGraduate 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 MoreThe UCLA Department of Linguistics proudly congratulates Professor Victoria Mateu on being selected as a recipient in the inaugural cohort of UCLA’s Global Teaching and Research Grants. Through this award,…
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…
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