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The Department of LinguisticsRobyn Orfitelli (Ph.D. 2012) has accepted a visiting position in the Linguistics Department at the University of Iowa, beginning Fall 2013. She will be teaching courses in Second Language Acquisition. Congratulations Robyn!
Read MoreMarc Garellek has accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of Linguistics at UCSD, starting Fall 2013. He will join fellow UCLA alumnus, Ivano Caponigro, as a member of the Linguistics faculty. Congratulations Marc!
Read MoreJianjing Kuang has accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, starting Fall 2013. Jianjing joins fellow UCLA alumnus Robin Clark (Ph.D. 1985) as a member of the Linguistics faculty. Congratulations Jianjing!
Read MoreThomas Graf has accepted a tenure-track position in the Linguistics Department at Stony Brook University in New York, starting Fall 2013. Thomas joins fellow UCLA alumna Marie Huffman (Ph.D. 1989) as a member of the Linguistics faculty. Congratulations Thomas!
Read MoreMeaghan Fowlie recently presented at the 29th Northwest Linguistics Conference held last weekend at University of British Columbia. Her talk was entitled “Minimalist Grammars with Adjunction”.
Read MoreFirst year graduate student, Margit Bowler, has received a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to fund linguistic fieldwork in central Australia. She will begin by conducting research on Warlpiri, and am interested particularly in lexical categories in the language. Her long-term goal is to expand her fieldwork into related central Australian languages, for a broader perspective…
Read MorePat Keating writes: On Saturday April 14, the Phonetics Lab (including the Infant Language Lab) participated in Bruin Day by offering an open house “tour”. Bruin Day is for students who have been admitted to UCLA and their families to visit the campus and decide whether to enroll at UCLA for their undergraduate studies. We…
Read MoreThe Phonetics lab will be participating in this year’s Bruin Day (April 13) where we will be showcasing the lab’s facilities to prospective undergraduate students and their families. http://bruinday.ucla.edu/schedule – then Tours – then Academics/Phonetics Lab (unfortunately no direct link!) We appreciate the undergrad and grad student volunteers who will make this event possible and…
Read MoreTwo UCLA linguists will be presenting at the upcoming meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (April 18-20). Dustin Bowers: Phonological Restructuring in Odawa Thomas Graf: The Syntactic Algebra of Adjuncts
Read MoreMeaghan Fowlie has published a book chapter in Challenges to Linearization (Ed. by Biberauer, Theresa / Roberts, Ian), part of the series Studies in Generative Grammar published by Mouton de Gruyter. The title of the chapter is Multiple multiple spellout (pp. 129-170) and can be found on the de Gruyter website. Congrats Meaghan!
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