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The Department of LinguisticsThe department’s admissions committee has made its recommendations for acceptance to the Ph.D. program for Fall 2015, and admissions and waitlist notifications are going out this week. Prospective students will be invited…
Read More4th year student Victoria Mateu has been awarded an NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant for her dissertation work: Intervention Effects in Raising and Control: Evidence from Spanish-speaking children This award will fund…
Read MoreUCLA linguists had a mini reunion at the recent meeting of the LSA in Portland. The get-together was organized by Pat Keating and Bruce Hayes. Here are some candid shots…
Read MoreUCLA was incredibly well-represented by both past and present faculty and students at the recent annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Portland. Highlights include Pat Keating being…
Read MoreUCLA linguists and alumni of the department will be giving a number of presentations at the annual Boston University Conference on Language Development this weekend. Talks: 18-month-olds compensate for a…
Read MoreThe 45th annual meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society (NELS) takes place this weekend at MIT. A number of UCLA linguists (current and former) will be in attendance. You can…
Read MoreThis past weekend, local West LA children’s books store, Children’s Book World, held a book signing for our very own second-year graduate student Eleanor Glewwe. Eleanor’s first young adults book, Sparkers,…
Read MoreThird-year student Margit Bowler is currently out in the Australian bush doing fieldwork on Warlpiri. She reports on a ‘minor’ incident involving a car blowing up below (see picture): Kaboom,…
Read MoreCongratulations to second-year graduate student Eleanor Glewwe on the Sept. 30 release of her first book, Sparkers, published by Viking Juvenile for Middle Grade readers. Eleanor will have a premier…
Read MoreThe department welcomes a large class of 14 incoming graduate students this year! Read more about them below! Maayan Abenina-Adar (M.A. McGill): Research interests: (Morpho-)Syntax, Tagalog Daniela Culinovic (M.A. Hawai’i): Research…
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