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The Department of LinguisticsCongratulations 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…
Read MoreFrom L to R: Henry Biggs, Marija Tabain, Patricia Keating With a generous donation from Dr. Henry Biggs (UCLA PhD, 1996) and Theresa Biggs (UCLA MA, 1993), the UCLA Linguistics…
Read MoreThe 50th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) took place November 6-9, 2025. The following current and former members of our department presented: Laurel Perkins (faculty): “Wh-dependency representations at…
Read MoreGrace Shoemaker, who graduated in 2025 from Linguistics at UCLA, is first author on a new paper out in the journal Health Communications. The paper is co-authored with faculty member…
Read MoreContinuing Lecturer Daria Bahtina was interviewed for The Guardian’s feature on Gen Alpha slang, where she discussed the meaning behind the seemingly meaningless “six-seven.” Her comments highlight how slang fosters…
Read MoreThe 56th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 56) was held on October 17-19th, 2025, at NYU. The following UCLA linguists presented: Boram Kim (current PhD student):…
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