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The Department of LinguisticsBrian Smith, who has been a lecturer in the department for the last two years, has just accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Linguistics at…
Read MoreSeveral of our students and faculty recently presented at the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 47). Talks: Harold Torrence: Subject oriented complementizer agreement in Ibibio John Gluckman: Taking time…
Read MoreCraig Sailor (Ph.D. 2014) recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship at U. of Groningen in the Netherlands where he work was working with Mark de Vries on an ERC funded project…
Read MoreNatasha Korotkova, one of our current PhD candidates, gave a talk entitled “Evidentials and questions” at the invited workshop “Differentiating contents” hosted by the Center for Formal Epistemology, Carnegie…
Read MoreCongratulations to Ann Ali for successfully defending her dissertation prospectus. She is the first person this academic year to do so. Ann’s work focuses on the intonation of Basque/Spanish bilinguals when code-switching. …
Read MoreThis year we have a number of new students joining the department. Below is a mini-bio for each one: Luke West Coming from University of Toronto Research interests: phonetics (lexical…
Read MoreThis week marks the beginning of the school year here at UCLA, which means there will soon be many more updates coming. Expect posts soon about what has happened over the…
Read MoreIn some delayed news, Jun Yashima (Ph.D. 2015) recently took up a full-time lectureship (Assistant Prof.) at Senshu University in Tokyo. Jun commenced this position in April. Congratulations Jun!
Read MorePat Keating has been elected the next president of the International Phonetic Association; she will take office in August at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, and will serve until…
Read MoreDepartment alumna, Rebecca Scarborough (Ph.D. 2005), who is currently an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department at U. Colorado, Boulder, has recently been awarded tenure! Congratulations Rebecca!
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