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We are delighted to announce that Meg Cychosz (Ph.D. UC Berkeley 2020) has accepted our offer to join our department as an assistant professor beginning July 2023. Meg is currently an NIH postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at the University of Maryland. Her research concerns speech development, especially by children…

Recent Ph.D. Canaan Breiss has accepted a tenure-track job as an Assistant Professor in the USC Department of Linguistics. We look forward to having Canaan in town!  Canaan is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow in the Computational Psycholinguistics Laboratory at MIT under Roger Levy.

We are delighted to announce that Ben Eischens (Ph.D. UC Santa Cruz expected 2022) has accepted our offer to join our department as an assistant professor as of July 1. Ben’s recent research is on the phonology and phonetics of San Martín Peras Mixtec, an Otomanguean language of Oaxaca, Mexico, though he has previously also…

If you are interested in learning more about computational linguistics and what you can pursue as a Linguistics & Computer Science major, join us for our virtual Ling & CS Alumni Panel / Info Session on Wednesday, January 26, at 1:00PM – 2:00PM PST. We are so fortunate to have two UCLA Ling & CS alumni panelists, Jonathan Quach and Su Thaw, joining us that day to…

Fall 2021 was the first use of our new, completely renovated space for Linguistics TA meetings, Rolfe 1110. This space comprises 3 small rooms with doors and whiteboard walls (2 are shown below), and one larger area normally divided into two by a portable whiteboard. Because it’s directly under the Humanities Technology classroom, the Wi-Fi…

For undergraduates interested in learning more about Speech-Language Pathology (SLP), we hope you can come to our virtual SLP Panel / Info Session on Tuesday, November 16, at 3:00pm – 4:00pm. We are so fortunate to have two UCLA Linguistics alumni panelists, Vanessa Zamora and Jennifer Gethers, joining us that day to answer your questions…

Presenting virtually from Boston from Nov. 4-7, the 46th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 46) features work from UCLA linguists Katya Khlystova, Minqi Liu, Laurel Perkins and Megha Sundara, as well as alumni Adam Chong (*17), Victoria Mateu (*16; UCLA department of Spanish and Portuguese) and Adam Royer (*21). • Kiwako Ito,…

The UCLA Department of Linguistics seeks a Graduate Student Affairs Officer for immediate placement. The Graduate Student Affairs Officer (Grad SAO) oversees all aspects of the student affairs program, including graduate and undergraduate services, for the Department of Linguistics. For more information, see our Job Opportunities.

The UCLA Department of Linguistics invites applications for full-time and/or part-time Lecturers for the 2021-2022 academic year to teach undergraduate courses in introductory linguistics, syntax, language acquisition, bilingualism, historical linguistics, general and applied phonetics, applied phonology, etc. Ph.D. required (specialization in related field desirable). For more information, see our Job Opportunities.