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The Department of LinguisticsThe 2026 LSA Annual Meeting took place in New Orleans, LA from Jan. 8-11. 2026. The following current and very recent members of our department presented: Anand Abraham (PhD student):…
Read MoreThe 50th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) took place November 6-9, 2025. The following current and former members of our department presented: Laurel Perkins (faculty): “Wh-dependency representations at…
Read MoreThe 56th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 56) was held on October 17-19th, 2025, at NYU. The following UCLA linguists presented: Boram Kim (current PhD student):…
Read MoreGraduate Student Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the Victoria Fromkin Memorial Prize for Student Excellence in Phonology and will be recognized at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting next year. Congratulations, Jian-Leat!
Read MoreJian-Leat Siah has been awarded the first place in the student poster session at the 2025 LSA Summer Institute. He presented on his MA project, “Learnability of Prosodic End-Weight Effect in…
Read MoreThe 43rd meeting of West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 43) took place on April 25–27, 2025 at the University of Washington, Seattle. The following current and former UCLA…
Read MoreGraduate student, Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the James McCawley Fellowship to attend this year’s LSA Summer Institute at the University of Oregon. Congratulations Jian-Leat!
Read MoreThe 49th meeting of the Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 49) took place 5–6 April 2025. The following current UCLA linguists presented: János Egressy: Size-dependent opacity meets pied-piping Hunter Johnson: More…
Read MoreThe 47th meeting of Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW 47) took place on 25–28 March, 2025 at the Goethe University in Frankfurt and the University of Göttingen. The…
Read MoreSemantics and Linguistic Theory 34 (SALT 34) is happening this week, hosted by the University of Rochester. The program features several presentations by UCLA linguists: Invited keynote talk by Jessica…
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