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The Department of LinguisticsIt is our great pleasure to announce that Victoria Mateu (PhD 2016) has accepted a tenure track position in the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Effective July 1 Victoria will join the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics. Congratulations Victoria!
Read MoreWe are excited to announce that Claire Moore-Cantwell (UMass 2016) and Ethan Poole (UMass 2017) have accepted our offers, and will join our faculty as of July 2019. Claire’s research is on probabilistic patterns in phonology, using ERP and behavioral experiments and computational modeling. Ethan’s research is in syntax, semantics, and their interface, especially movement…
Read MoreCurrent and former UCLA Ph.D. students presented at the 6th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC 6), held on February 18-March 4, 2019, at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Methodologies for Teaching Mixtec Tones (Octavio Leon Vazquez and Iara Mantenuto), Traditional Music as a central pillar in language documentation: the case of…
Read MoreProf. David Goldstein, of the Linguistics Department and the Program in Indo-European Studies, has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure as of July 1, 2019. Congratulations, David!
Read MoreKristine 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 on the UCLA Humanities Division website.
Read MoreTravis Major & Connor Mayer; Victoria Mateu & Nina Hyams; and Shu-hao Shih presented their work at the 49th annual North East Linguistics Society meeting at Cornell University, Ithaca, October 5-7, 2018.
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…
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