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The Department of LinguisticsThe Linguistics Department’s End of Year 5K Run is an annual, end of the academic year celebration. This year the 5K run was held at Professor Emeritus Ed Keenan’s home on Friday, June 14th. The 5K run includes a spirited walk and run among students and faculty, along with catering from Juan’s Taco Truck, and…
Read MoreThe Linguistics Department would like to congratulate the recent undergraduate and graduate students who were honored this past June 15th, 2019. The graduation reception took place in Royce Hall, room 314. The graduates included Eleanor Glewwe, Zhuo Chen (not pictured), Richard Stockwell (not pictured), Tyler Carson, Angelica Pan, and Joy Wu. Again, congratulations to our…
Read MoreThere was a good showing of UCLA students and alumni presenting talks and posters at the 27th Manchester Phonology Meeting (mfm) in Manchester, UK. From left to right: Adam Albright (PhD 2002; Professor at MIT), Connor Mayer (3rd year PhD Candidate), Adam Chong (PhD 2017; Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London), Boer Fu (B.A….
Read MoreCongratulations to linguistics graduate student Travis Major for being chosen as a recipient of the Charles E. and Sue K. Young Graduate Student Fellowship Award. These awards “recognize outstanding graduate students for exemplary academic achievement, research, and service to the campus and the community.” Only four graduate students at UCLA are chosen to receive this…
Read MoreUCLA linguistics graduate students met with colleagues in academia and industry at a roundtable at the UCLA Career Development Conference for Graduate Students & Postdoctoral Scholars to discuss career paths in linguistics and navigating the intersection of professional life and personal identity. From left: Megan Risdal (M.A linguistics, UCLA, ’15), Marju Kaps (Linguistics PhD candidate,…
Read MoreFourth year graduate student Richard Stockwell has been awarded a $250 abstract prize from the 43rd Penn Linguistics Conference. Richard’s submission, “Intensionality, contrast and ellipsis,” was one of the three best-reviewed abstracts submitted by graduate students. Congratulations Richard!
Read MoreSecond year graduate student Z.L. Zhou has received an honorable mention for the Nation Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program. According to the NSF, an honorable mention constitutes “a significant national academic achievement.” Way to go, Z.L.!
Read MoreJeremy Steffman’s paper, a slightly extended version of his MA thesis, just got accepted to Journal of Phonetics. The title of his paper is “Intonational structure mediates speech rate normalization in the perception of segmental categories”. Congratulations, Jeremy!
Read MoreUCLA students, faculty, and current visitors presented talks and posters the 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, held at the University of Colorado, Boulder on March 28-31, 2019. Canaan Breiss. Phonotactic markedness increases processing demands in speech production. Jesse Harris, Chie Nakamura, Beth Sturman, and Sun-Ah Jun. Prosody-meaning mismatches in PP ambiguity: Incremental…
Read MoreCurrent and former UCLA Ph.D. students presented at the 6th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC 6), held on February 18-March 4, 2019, at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Methodologies for Teaching Mixtec Tones (Octavio Leon Vazquez and Iara Mantenuto), Traditional Music as a central pillar in language documentation: the case of…
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