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NELS47 (North East Linguistics Society) met at UMASS Amherst this October. UCLA was well represented: Richard Stockwell gave a talk entitled “VP ellipsis with symmetrical predicates” Jesse Zymet with co-author…

UCLA Linguistics was well-represented at this year’s Annual Meeting on Phonology at the University of Southern California. Invited talk: Bruce Hayes: Varieties of Noisy Harmonic Grammar Talk: Adam Chong: Examining…

 Two UCLA linguistics grads presented at CUSP 9 (California Semantics and Pragmatics) that took place between Oct. 21 and 22 at UC Santa Cruz. The titles of the talks were:…

Speech Prosody 2016 was held this year at Boston University from May 31st through June 3rd. A number of UCLA students and graduates were in attendance to present their work. Talks:…

Brian 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…

Several 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…

Craig 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…

  Natasha 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…

Congratulations 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.  …

This 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…