General

On behalf of the faculty, Teaching Assistants, and staff at UCLA Linguistics, congratulations to the UCLA Linguistics Class of 2020 for all of your hard work! You put in countless minutes, hours, days, weeks, and years into linguistic research in and outside of the classroom. You listened to recordings and live language consultants to train…

Jianjing Kuang (Ph.D 2013) has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure effective July 1 in the Linguistics Department of the University of Pennsylvania. Congratulations, JJ!

Three temporary faculty members of the department are moving on to tenure-track jobs at other universities. Suzy Ahn, who has been our phonetics/phonology lecturer since January 2019, will be an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department of the University of Ottawa. Shu-hao Shih, who has been our phonology adjunct since summer 2018, will be an Assistant…

Our great congratulations to Pam Munro, who has been awarded a 2019-20 Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professorship Award for her many activities since retirement! Read about Pam and the other two awardees here. Many thanks to Tim Stowell for putting together the department’s nomination for this award!

Congratulations to Richard Stockwell, who has accepted a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church, Oxford!

We are delighted to announce that Iara Mantenuto has been offered and accepted a tenure-track position in the English department of California State University, Dominguez Hills! Congratulations, Iara!

Approved changes to five undergraduate majors within the UCLA Department of Linguistics will open new doors for students. Effective Winter 2020, the changes will extend opportunities for research, scholarships, and jobs only previously available to students in STEM, but students enrolled in any of the five affected majors will still earn a B.A. degree. Originally…

We are delighted to announce that Laurel Perkins (U. Maryland, 2019) has accepted our offer to join our department as an assistant professor. Laurel will begin her appointment after completing her postdoctoral fellowship at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris. Her research is on computational models of language acquisition. Laurel won a 2020 Robert…

The program for the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 38, hosted by UBC, is out now. The program features an invited talk by Jessica Rett titled Prosodically marked mirativity. Other UCLA linguists presenting are: •Iara Mantenuto: Comparatives in San Sebastián del Monte Mixtec: A Mixed Construction •Jeremy Steffman and Sun-Ah Jun: Prosodic prominence in…