Undergraduate Students

Category: Alumni, Awards, Conferences, Labs, Undergraduate Students

Undergraduate Travel Award for Sophia Luo

Published: November 15, 2018

Sophia 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 block perturbation”. These awards were established in 2017 with gifts to the UCLA Phonetics Lab from former undergraduates Cheng Cheng & Loke Tan, and Vernon…

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Category: Alumni, Conferences, General, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students

UCLA at AMP 2018

Published: October 10, 2018

There were many current UCLA students and UCLA alumni giving talks or posters at the 2018 Annual Meeting on Phonology, held at UCSD in San Diego from October 5-7, 2018. You can find slides and posters for their presentations on the AMP website. In the picture from left to right are Edward Flemming (PhD 1995;…

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Category: Awards, Undergraduate Students

Announcing the Undergraduate Research and Travel Awards!

Published: October 11, 2017

The UCLA Linguistics Department is pleased to announce the new Undergraduate Research and Travel Awards. Starting immediately, we will be accepting applications for these awards on a rolling basis to Linguistics undergraduates who need funding for research, research travel, or conference travel. The awards are possible due to gifts to the UCLA Phonetics Lab from…

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Category: Conferences, Faculty, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students

WCCFL 34 at the University of Utah

Published: May 6, 2016

This past weekend,  The University of Utah hosted The West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. UCLA students and faculty were of those who presented this year. Talks: A linguistic study using social media: Phonotactically-driven rendaku in surnames, Yu Tanaka, UCLA graduate Posters: Bound tense in Relative Clauses: evidence from VP-ellipsis, Sam Alxatib, CUNY & Yael…

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Category: Alumni, Awards, Faculty, General, Graduate Students, Publications, Undergraduate Students

Summer Happeings II: Publications & Awards

Published: October 1, 2014

Graf awarded the Beth Prize! In August, Thomas Graf (Ph.D. 2012, now at Stony Brook) was awarded the Beth Prize for best dissertation in Logic, Language and Linguistics for 2013, which includes a cash prize and publication offer. Read more about the Beth Prize here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._W._Beth_Dissertation_Prize Congratulations Thomas!  New NSF grant for Keating and colleagues…

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Category: Events, Faculty, General, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students

Scenes from World Voice Day @ UCLA

Published: April 19, 2014

Pat Keating, together with cross-campus colleagues organized UCLA’s first every participation in World Voice Day. There were three stations that showcased interactive exhibits about voice science, staffed in part by several of our own linguistics undergrads. Events included the debut performance by the Department’s very own Kartvelian Chorus (Georgian folk singing group) led by Vrinda…

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Category: Events, Faculty, General, Undergraduate Students

World Voice Day @ UCLA on Wednesday, 16 April

Published: April 15, 2014

Pat Keating writes: Hi everyone, I and some colleagues on campus have organized UCLA’s first-ever participation in World Voice Day, April 16 – Wednesday of this week. We will have interactive exhibits about voice science at 3 locations, staffed in part by several of our own linguistics undergrads. You can check out what’s happening where/when…

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Category: Alumni, Faculty, General, Undergraduate Students

Congratulations graduating Linguistics majors!

Published: June 17, 2013

Both the College of Letters and Science and the Humanities Division held commencement ceremonies this past weekend. Russ Schuh (Dir. Undegraduate Studies) writes that the linguistics contingent was significantly larger than that of any other department. He also noted that the linguistics faculty participation was also significantly larger than any other department! Congratulations to all…

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