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The Department of LinguisticsVanessa 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…
Read MoreA paper by Connor Mayer (4th year PhD candidate) and Robert Daland (former UCLA faculty) has just been accepted to Linguistic Inquiry. The title of the paper is “A method for projecting features from observed phonological classes.” Click here to see a pre-print. Congratulations, Connor and Robert!
Read MoreIPA presidents serve a 4-year term from one ICPhS meeting to the next. At the Melbourne meeting this month, Pat Keating ended her term by helping to open the Congress [photo 1] and by conducting the IPA’s business meeting, where she gave the outgoing president’s report and welcomed the incoming members of the Executive [photo…
Read MoreMany current and past department members attended the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences in Melbourne, Australia this month. Adam Chong and Pat arranged an evening social at a local bar. The photo above shows Adam Royer, Beth Sturman, Meng Yang, Ho-Hsien Pan (former visiting scholar), Sun-Ah Jun, Mary Baltazani (PhD 2002), Marc Garellek (PhD 2013),…
Read MoreThe Linguistics Department’s End of Year 5K Run is an annual, end of the academic year celebration. This year the 5K run was held at Professor Emeritus Ed Keenan’s home on Friday, June 14th. The 5K run includes a spirited walk and run among students and faculty, along with catering from Juan’s Taco Truck, and…
Read MoreThe Linguistics Department would like to congratulate the recent undergraduate and graduate students who were honored this past June 15th, 2019. The graduation reception took place in Royce Hall, room 314. The graduates included Eleanor Glewwe, Zhuo Chen (not pictured), Richard Stockwell (not pictured), Tyler Carson, Angelica Pan, and Joy Wu. Again, congratulations to our…
Read MoreThere was a good showing of UCLA students and alumni presenting talks and posters at the 27th Manchester Phonology Meeting (mfm) in Manchester, UK. From left to right: Adam Albright (PhD 2002; Professor at MIT), Connor Mayer (3rd year PhD Candidate), Adam Chong (PhD 2017; Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London), Boer Fu (B.A….
Read MoreWe are delighted to announce that Stefan Keine has accepted a faculty position in the department, effective July 1, 2020. We look forward to welcoming him then!
Read MoreJody Kreiman received the inaugural 2019 Academic Senate Service award! Per the Academic Senate “We cannot thank you enough for the service you have provided the Academic Senate and the Department of Head and Neck Surgery. You have clearly demonstrated the outstanding qualities we look for in a recipient of this award. We are grateful…
Read MoreProf. Tim Hunter, of the Linguistics Department and the Program in Computational Linguistics, has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure as of July 1, 2019. Congratulations, Tim!
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