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The Department of LinguisticsThe UCLA Newsroom just wrote an article titled “UCLA linguist, Gabrielino-Tongva Indians use social media to revive extinct language” that features work by Pam Munro. If anyone uses Facebook, Pam would…
Read MoreJamie White’s (Ph.D. 2013, now at UCL, previously Ottawa) and Megha Sundara’s paper, Biased generalization of newly learned phonological alternations by 12-month-old infants, just came out in Cognition. Congratulations Jamie…
Read MoreThe UCLA Phonetics Lab celebrates its 50th Anniversary today! In true phonetician style there will be IPA Bingo, spectrogram reading and reminiscing of old times through the labs extensive photo…
Read MoreHow fast time flies! It’s that time of the year again where the department farewells its departing Ph.D. students. The annual doctoral hooding ceremony took place today together with a…
Read MoreA little old news: The 21st Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association took place a couple of weeks ago at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. UCLA’s Kie Zuraw…
Read MoreMargit Bowler is headed over to Tübingen, Germany, where she will be presenting at The Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA 1). Her talk entitled: Coordination and disjunction…
Read MoreRobyn Orfitelli (Ph.D. 2012, currently at U. of Iowa) will be taking up a tenure-track position at the University of Sheffield, UK, starting in the Fall. Congratulations Robyn!!
Read MoreSandy Disner (Ph.D. 1983; now at USC) was interviewed on CNN Newsroom yesterday in relation to the current news story regarding former American P.O.W. Bowe Bergdahl’s potential language attrition.
Read MoreNatasha Abner (Ph.D. 2012, currently at U. Chicago) will take up a tenure-track position in the Department of Linguistics at Montclair State University in New Jersey, starting this Fall. Congratulations…
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