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The Department of LinguisticsThe 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….
Read MoreThe program for Generative Linguistics in the Old World 43, hosted by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, is out now. The following UCLA linguists are presenting: •Travis Major and Harold Torrence: “Say”-chains,…
Read MoreThe department is thrilled to announce a pledge by the Bohne and Bye Trust for a $2,000,000 gift to establish and support a Linguistics Laboratory Program. The eventual gift will…
Read MoreCongratulations to 4th year PhD student Canaan Breiss and Professor Bruce Hayes for having their paper recently accepted to Language. The title of the paper is “Phonological markedness effects in…
Read More4th year PhD candidate Connor Mayer has had his paper “An algorithm for learning phonological classes from distributional information” accepted to Phonology. This work was based on his UCLA master’s…
Read MoreShown in the photo are Bruce Hayes, Theresa and Henry Biggs, and Dean David Schaberg. On Oct. 30, the department celebrated the establishment of the Theresa McShane Biggs and…
Read MoreIn addition to having just received his PhD from UCLA, Nikos Angelopoulos has also published an article in Glossa. The article is titled “Reconstructing Clitic Doubling,” and you can find…
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UCLA linguists turned up for CAMP (CAlifornia Meeting on Psycholinguistics) 3, held at the woodsy UC Santa Cruz October 26-27, 2019. Participants persevered even as the power was cut on…
Read MoreCongratulations to Jessica Rett! The 2020 winner of the Linguistic Society of America’s Linguistic Service Award is the “Pop-Up Mentoring Program (PUMP)”, whose organizers facilitate short-term mentoring of linguists by…
Read MoreRichard Stockwell & Deborah Wong will be presenting their paper “Sprouting and the structure of ‘except’-phrases” at the upcoming 50th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 50) at…
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