In compliance with LA City orders to slow the spread of COVID-19, our faculty and staff are working remotely until further notice. Our staff can be reached via email during our normal office hours, M-F 8am-5pm. For general inquiries, please e-mail linguist@humnet.ucla.edu.
In Memoriam
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William Bright
- 1928 - 2006
- William Bright was a distinguished scholar in American Indian linguistics, Dravidian linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Visit Website
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Victoria Fromkin
- 1923 - 2000
- Victoria Fromkin was one of the department's own first Ph.D.'s, noted for her work in phonetics, phonology, and psycholinguistics. Visit Website
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Peter Ladefoged
- 1925 - 2006
- Peter Ladefoged was a preeminent scholar in phonetics. He taught in the department from 1962 to 1991, and was thereafter a Research Linguist. Visit Website
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Paul Schachter
- 1929 - 2012
- Paul Schachter was one of the program’s earliest Ph.D.’s, and went on to teach in the department for over thirty years. He was a noted authority on syntactic theory and on Philippine languages. Read More
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Russell G. Schuh
- 1941 - 2016
- Russell Schuh was a distinguished Africanist specializing in Chadic languages. Visit Website
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Robert Stockwell
- 1925 - 2012
- Robert Stockwell was the founding chair of our department. His research covered syntactic theory, the history of the English language, early English metrics, and historical linguistics. Visit Website
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