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The department newsletter of the Department of Linguistics at UCLA Volume 8 (2007-8, prepared September 2008) Contents of this issue: |
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Career progress of our grad students
- 2008 Ph.D. Kuniko Nielsen
got a tenure-track job at Oakland
University.
- 2008 Ph.D. Heather
Wilson got a tenure-track job at Brigham Young University.
- 2007 Ph.D. Katya Pertsova got a
tenure track job at the University
of North Carolina (Katya is currently doing
a postdoc in the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts
University)
- 2007 Ph. D Greg Kobele,
formerly in a postdoctoral position at INRIA,
- 2008 Ph.D. Reiko
Okabe got a Assistant Professor position at
the
- 2008 Ph.D. David
Schueler got a Visiting Assistant Professor position in linguistics at
University of Illinois at
Urbana- Champaign.
- 2008 Ph.D. Chacha Mwita will
begin a Lecturer position in the Department of Kiswahili and
African Languages at Kenyatta
University in
- 2008 M.A. Tatiana
Libman and 2007 Ph.D. Shabnam
Shademan are now working at Google in
- 2005 Ph.D. Heidi Fleischhacker MacBride is now employed as a
Linguist at Structured Commons,
a high-tech startup.
- Kristine Yu won a National Science
Foundation Graduate Fellowship.
- Roy Becker
and Ingvar
Lofstedt won UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowships.
- Tomoko
Ishizuka won a $6500 Sasakawa Fellowship
from the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies.
- Both Tomoko and Ji Eun Kim won Lenart Travel
Fellowships.
- At the 2008 Conference of the Canadian Linguistics
Association in
Welcome to our newest faculty member, Assistant Professor Jessica Rett, who will be an important part of our department's research and teaching in the area of semantics. Jessica recently completed her Ph.D. at Rutgers University with a dissertation entitled Degree Modification in Natural Language.
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Renovations Working Papers in Phonetics Online Since Fall 2007, all issues of the department’s UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics have been available to the public online at the University of California eScholarship Repository, thanks to Sun-Ah Jun’s efforts. That’s currently 106 issues, from #1 in June 1964 through #106 in September 2007. Most back issues were scanned from the original master copies, which have been archived for all these years in the Phonetics Lab. (Thanks to undergrads Cheryl Hipp and Hannah Hassig!) |
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The new Language Laboratory, physically part of the Phonetics Lab, is up
and running. "Language Laboratory" is the public face of what
we linguists would more naturally call an infant and child lab. Since
this year, a steady stream of babes and tots, generally in good cheer, have
been are showing up at 2101C One of the tasks the Language Laboratory staff faced this year was to complete the final work on its sound booth -- crenellation! . Shown is the crenellator/castle builder, graduate student Chad Vicenik, with Megha in the background. Current evidence suggests that the castle format assists greatly in getting little kids to enter the booth, though it is an impediment in getting them to leave... |
The Department hosted the10th Mathematics of Language Workshop July 28-30, 2007, with assistance from UCLA's Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM). This meeting included a special session in honor of Edward Keenan's contributions to mathematical linguistics.
Our department also hosted an excellent WCCFL conference (West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics). Thanks to Robyn Orfitelli and the whole organizing team for a great intellectual and social experience.
The 2007 Department Halloween party inspired a number of interesting costumes.
The annual UCLA Linguistics 5K Walk/Run produced outstanding times in several of the divisions, owing to the cool weather and assiduous training. Thanks to Ed K. and to Carol Archie for hosting the very nice party which followed.
A number of distinguished visitors spent time in our department this year; see our visitor's page.