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The Department of LinguisticsGraduate 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!
Read MoreCongratulations to Katya Khlystova for advancing to the finals rounds in UCLA’s Grad Slam competition! Katya is one of 10 graduate students across all of UCLA who has been selected…
Read MoreCongratulations to 4th-year PhD candidate Huilei Wang for having her paper “Quantifier Raising out of Mandarin relative clauses” recently accepted to Natural Language Semantics! You can find a preprint on…
Read MoreGraduate student Canaan Breiss has accepted a postdoc position at the Computational Psycholinguistics Laboratory in the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, with Roger Levy as PI. Canaan will…
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