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The Department of LinguisticsUCLA Semanticists Margit Bowler and Yael Sharvit both presented at SALT 24 this weekend at NYU in New York City. Margit Bowler, Conjunction and disjunction in a language without ‘and’….
Read MoreThe biannual Speech Prosody conference is taking place this week in Dublin, Ireland. UCLA phoneticians (current and former) will be well-represented! Ann Bailey, Intonational Phonology of Cuban Spanish: A Preliminary…
Read MoreLaura Kalin defended her dissertation, Aspect and argument licensing in Neo-Aramaic, yesterday (Chair: Anoop Mahajan). Congratulations Laura!
Read MoreJos Tellings will swapping the SoCal heat for the cool Pacific Northwest this weekend. He will be presenting at Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas (SULA) 8 which will take…
Read MoreKaeli Ward and Laura McPherson both successfully defended their dissertations last week! Kaeli Ward: On Backtracking Counterfactuals (Chair: Yael Sharvit) Laura McPherson: Replacive Grammatical Tone in the Dogon Languages (Co-Chairs:…
Read MoreLaura Kalin will be taking up a postdoctoral position at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, beginning in Fall 2014, where she will be working with Jonathan Bobaljik. Congratulations Laura!
Read MoreIsabelle Charnavel (Ph.D. 2012) and Victoria Mateu will be giving a talk at LSRL 44 in Canada on: Clitic Coreference Restrictions and Antilogophoricity in French and Spanish.
Read MoreByron Ahn will be heading to Boston University in the Fall to take up a visiting Assistant Professorship in Boston University’s Department of Linguistics. Congratulations Byron!
Read MorePat Keating, together with cross-campus colleagues organized UCLA’s first every participation in World Voice Day. There were three stations that showcased interactive exhibits about voice science, staffed in part by…
Read MoreUCLA linguists (both present and former) will be giving talks at this year’s meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS 50). Byron Ahn: “Reflexes of Reflexivity: Locality and the Interfaces”…
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