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The Department of LinguisticsThis year, unlike other years, we will be welcoming our entering cohort virtually! It’s not ideal, and certainly not what we are accustomed to, but it is our new normal…
Read MorePlease 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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