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The Department of LinguisticsThe once-every-five years International Congress of Linguists is currently taking place in Geneva. A number of UCLA linguists (faculty, graduate students and alumni) will be presenting their work. Byron Ahn:…
Read MoreA co-authored paper by Laura McPherson and Jeffrey Heath (University of Michigan) just appeared in the most recent issue of Language. You’ll find the paper on Project MUSE’s website. Heath,…
Read MoreThis past quarter we’ve enjoyed a terrific series of colloquium talks by seven finishing Ph.D. students – an unusually high number of student talks in a single quarter. Many thanks,…
Read MoreThe Annual Department 5-K run/walk/bike-ride/lay-by-the-pool will be taking place today at Ed Keenan’s home! We’ll be swapping office chairs for some running shoes and celebrating the end of the academic…
Read MoreMembers of the UCLA Phonetics Lab and friends from Head/Neck Surgery participated in the lab’s once-every-few-years human dissection class this week. We got a first hand look at the anatomical…
Read MoreChad Vicenik (Ph.D. 2011) and Megha Sundara’s paper “The role of intonation in language and dialect discrimination by adults” has just appeared in Journal of Phonetics.
Read MoreVincent Homer (Ph.D. 2010), currently at École Normale Supérierue (ENS, Paris) will be moving to the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) this October where he will be a…
Read MoreSameer ud Dowla Khan (Ph.D. 2008) has accepted a tenure-track position at Reed College in Portland Oregon. Sameer was formerly a Visiting Assistant Professor at Reed. He begins his new…
Read MoreA number of UCLA linguists presented posters at the Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Montreal this past week. Adam Chong. Towards a model of Singaporean English…
Read MoreJamie White has accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Ottawa, starting Fall 2013. Congratulations Jamie!
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