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The Department of LinguisticsThis past weekend, local West LA children’s books store, Children’s Book World, held a book signing for our very own second-year graduate student Eleanor Glewwe. Eleanor’s first young adults book, Sparkers,…
Read MoreThird-year student Margit Bowler is currently out in the Australian bush doing fieldwork on Warlpiri. She reports on a ‘minor’ incident involving a car blowing up below (see picture): Kaboom,…
Read MoreCongratulations to second-year graduate student Eleanor Glewwe on the Sept. 30 release of her first book, Sparkers, published by Viking Juvenile for Middle Grade readers. Eleanor will have a premier…
Read MoreUCLA is hosting CUSP 7 this year, on Friday, Nov. 7 and Saturday, Nov. 8 (location TBA). CUSP — California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics — is an interdisciplinary conference presenting work…
Read MoreUCLA’s Applied Linguistics program will be hosting this year’s American Pragamatics conference (AMPRA) from October 17-19. Our own Jesse Harris is also on the organizing committee. Jesse will also be…
Read MoreJesse Harris’s new Language Processing Lab is finally taking physical shape. Construction began at the start of September is due to finish by the end of October (we hope). Meanwhile,…
Read MorePat Keating was the UM Linguistics colloquium speaker on Oct. 3. Her talk, “Linguistic Voice Quality”, was based on joint work with a number of colleagues and former students who…
Read MoreThe department welcomes one new assistant professor and 3 lecturers this academic year. Read about them below: Jesse Harris (Ph.D. UMass, Asst. Prof): My primary research is in language processing,…
Read MoreThe department welcomes a large class of 14 incoming graduate students this year! Read more about them below! Maayan Abenina-Adar (M.A. McGill): Research interests: (Morpho-)Syntax, Tagalog Daniela Culinovic (M.A. Hawai’i): Research…
Read MoreA number of department members were out in the field this summer. Here are some field reports: Sozen Ozkan writes: This summer, I started working on Turoyo which is a…
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