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The Department of LinguisticsPlease review the Graduate Student Deadlines for the 2020-2021 and the Filing Deadlines for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Read MoreCongratulations to 5th year PhD candidate Connor Mayer and his coauthors Bryan Gick and Sid Fels (University of British Columbia), Chenhao Chiu (National Taiwan University), Erik Widing, Francois Roewer-Despres and Ian Stavness (University of Saskatchewan) for having their paper “Quantal biomechanical effects in speech postures of the lips” accepted to the Journal of Neurophysiology! You…
Read MoreCongratulations to S. Blake Lehman who was just awarded the Harry and Yvonne Lenart Graduate Travel Fellowship. The fellowship is highly competitive and provides funds for travel and living expenses to UCLA Humanities grad students to conduct research in foreign countries. Blake will be traveling to Amedzofe, Ghana to gather data on the Ghana-Togo Mountain…
Read MoreCongratulations to PhD candidate Iara Mantenuto for receiving a Foundation for Endangered Languages Grant! These grants go to “projects that focus on the revitalisation of an endangered language and/or support the use of an endangered language in its community.” Iara’s grant will fund her project “Signs and games: strategies for involving the youth in the…
Read MorePlease join us in congratulating Sozen Ozkan, who has been offered a position as a Research Project Manager in NLP and Speech Group at ETS in Princeton. We would like to wish her the best of luck in her new position.
Read MoreCongratulations to 4th year PhD student Canaan Breiss and Professor Bruce Hayes for having their paper recently accepted to Language. The title of the paper is “Phonological markedness effects in sentence formation.” You can find a pre-print here.
Read More4th year PhD candidate Connor Mayer has had his paper “An algorithm for learning phonological classes from distributional information” accepted to Phonology. This work was based on his UCLA master’s paper. You can find a pre-print here. Congratulations, Connor!
Read MoreThe Department was well-represented at the December 2019 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in San Diego. Current faculty and students who were authors of posters include: Suzy Ahn, Jake Aziz, Phill Barnett, Matt Faytak, Jinyoung Jo, Hiro Katsuda, Pat Keating, Jennifer Kuo, Connor Mayer, Christine Prechtel, Brice Roberts, Jeremy Steffman, Megha Sundara, Gabe…
Read MoreIn addition to having just received his PhD from UCLA, Nikos Angelopoulos has also published an article in Glossa. The article is titled “Reconstructing Clitic Doubling,” and you can find it here. Congratulations Dr. Angelopoulos!
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UCLA linguists turned up for CAMP (CAlifornia Meeting on Psycholinguistics) 3, held at the woodsy UC Santa Cruz October 26-27, 2019. Participants persevered even as the power was cut on day two of the workshop! Mapping Remnant and Correlate in Persian Stripping – Vahideh Rasekhi & Jesse Harris Processing coordination ambiguity in context: Eye-tracking evidence…
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