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The Department of LinguisticsMeaghan 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!
Read MoreGrace Kuo has accepted a one-year faculty position at the Department of Linguistics at Macalester College. She will be teaching laboratory phonetics and phonology and learning the Great Lakes Accent. Congratulations Grace!
Read MoreJason Bishop has accepted a tenure-track position at the City University of New York, where he will hold positions in the English Department at the College of Staten Island, and in the Linguistics Program at the CUNY Graduate Center, starting in Fall 2013. He’ll be starting up a phonetics/laboratory phonology lab. Congratulations Jason!
Read MoreJason Bishop is off to Stanford today to give an invited talk: “Individual differences in the perception and processing of prosody” at the Hearing Seminar, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University.
Read MoreVisiting student Tristan Thommen and alumnus Vincent Homer gave a talk recently at 14th Szklarska Poreba Workshop in Poland. Their talk was entitled: “Remarks on a Language with no Overt Negation”
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