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The Department of LinguisticsDepartment chair, Bruce Hayes, writes: An intensive search has yielded a new Undergraduate Adviser (a.k.a. SAO, Student Affairs Officer) for our department. This is none other than our own Alejandra…
Read MoreWe recently bid farewell to two of our department staff members, Jessika Herrera (undergraduate advisor) and Anya Mancillas (Lab Manager). Jessika will be taking up a similar position in Comparative…
Read MoreDustin Bowers has accepted a post-doctoral position at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton. He will be working under Antti Arppe under the grant Alberta Language Technology Lab in the Department…
Read MoreThis past Wednesday was the premiere public performance of the Bulgarian folk music group comprised of UCLA’s Russ Schuh (clarinet) and Vrinda Chidambaram (vocals), along with fellow bandmates Aaron Bittel (accordion) and Jerry…
Read MoreThe 2nd Workshop on Infant Language Development took place in Stockholm last week. Victoria Mateu and Megha Sundara both had poster presentations! Victoria Mateu Martin and Megha Sundara. Cross-linguistic transfer…
Read MoreUCLA alumnus, Jason Kandybowicz (Ph.D. 2007, currently at the U. of Kansas) has accepted a position in syntax at the City University of New York in New York City. Jason…
Read MoreHeather Burnett (Ph.D. 2012) who is currently a post-doctoral researcher on the Syntactic Microvariation of the Romance Languages of France project within the CLLE-ERSS will be a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in…
Read MoreYou know it’s summer when the annual department 5K party occurs. This year it was once again graciously hosted by Ed Keenan. It was a fun and joyous event to…
Read MoreEd Keenan has recently been awarded the S.-Y. Kuroda prize by MOL (Mathematics of Language), a special interest group of the Association for Computational Linguistics. The award is in honor…
Read MoreSome of our phonologists made the hop across the pond to Manchester to attend the 23rd annual Manchester Phonology Meeting (or mfm). Jesse Zymet gave a talk: A case for parallelism:…
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