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The Department of LinguisticsPat Keating, President of the IPA, was an invited speaker at Jinan University in Guangzhou China, Nov. 10-11, for the 13th Phonetic Conference of China. She helped open the conference,…
Read MoreSophia Luo received a departmental Undergraduate Research and Travel Award for her participation in the Fall Acoustical Society of America meeting. Sophia assisted with the project “Tongue bracing under bite…
Read MoreTwo department members presented posters at the recent Acoustical Society of America meeting: Matt Faytak (The Suzhou Chinese “apical” and “fricative” vowels: Uniformity and idiosyncrasy) and Connor Mayer (A biomechanical…
Read MoreProfessor Jesse Harris and graduate students Jeremy Steffman and Z.L. Zhou presented talks and posters at the 4th Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP). They were joined by Byron…
Read MoreUCLA will be represented at California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics (CUSP) 11, held October 27-28 at UC Berkeley. Maura O’Leary will be presenting joint work with Adrian Brasoveanu, and Beth…
Read MoreTravis Major & Connor Mayer; Victoria Mateu & Nina Hyams; and Shu-hao Shih presented their work at the 49th annual North East Linguistics Society meeting at Cornell University, Ithaca, October…
Read MoreDistinguished Professor Emeritus, Edward Keenan gave a keynote address at ICAL (International Conference of Austronesian Languages) at the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar. One of our new graduate students, Jacob…
Read MoreProfessor Keenan has published a new book: Eliminating the Universe (Logical Properties of Natural Language) by World Scientific Press. He also gave a one month series of lectures on syntactic typology at…
Read MoreConnor Mayer gave a talk in collaboration with Travis Major titled “A challenge for tier-based strict locality from Uyghur backness harmony” at the 23rd Conference on Formal Grammar, held in…
Read MoreTravis Major and Connor Mayer presented their poster “Towards a phonological model of Uyghur intonation” at the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody, which was held in Poznań, Poland from…
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