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The Department of LinguisticsCongratulations to 5th-year PhD candidate János Egressy for having his paper “Size-sensitive sequence of tense in Hungarian ” recently accepted to Linguistic Inquiry! You can find an early-access print on…
Read MoreGraduate student Kevin Liang is in the news in Catalonia again. Here is another news article written about this dissertation research on Saltatory alternations in Catalan, and how infants could…
Read MoreGraduate student Kevin Liang was interviewed by some members of the town hall of Parets del Vallès, Catalonia. This is the main city where he is testing infants for his…
Read MoreGraduate Student Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the Victoria Fromkin Memorial Prize for Student Excellence in Phonology and will be recognized at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting next year. Congratulations, Jian-Leat!
Read MoreGraduate student Kevin Liang has published part of his MA in Journal of Child Language. Congratulations Kevin! Liang K, Sundara M. Infants discover English suffixes allomorph by allomorph. Journal of…
Read MoreJian-Leat Siah has been awarded the first place in the student poster session at the 2025 LSA Summer Institute. He presented on his MA project, “Learnability of Prosodic End-Weight Effect in…
Read MoreGraduate student Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the Dissertation Fieldwork Fellowship ($1,800), administered by the UCLA International Institute. It will be used to support his fieldwork on Kalabakan Murut, as part of…
Read MoreJian-Leat Siah has been awarded an NSF scholarship to attend the workshop “Abstract and Item-Specific Knowledge Across Domains and Frameworks”, organized by our alum Canaan Briess (now at USC) and…
Read MoreGraduate student, Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the James McCawley Fellowship to attend this year’s LSA Summer Institute at the University of Oregon. Congratulations Jian-Leat!
Read MoreCongratulations to 4th-year PhD candidate Boram Kim for having her paper “Not every finite CP is a phase” recently published in Glossa!
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