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The Department of LinguisticsPlease join us in congratulating Sozen Ozkan, who has been offered a position as a Research Project Manager in NLP and Speech Group at ETS in Princeton. We would like to wish her the best of luck in her new position.
Read MoreThe program for the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 38, hosted by UBC, is out now. The program features an invited talk by Jessica Rett titled Prosodically marked mirativity. Other UCLA linguists presenting are: •Iara Mantenuto: Comparatives in San Sebastián del Monte Mixtec: A Mixed Construction •Jeremy Steffman and Sun-Ah Jun: Prosodic prominence in…
Read MoreThe program for Generative Linguistics in the Old World 43, hosted by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, is out now. The following UCLA linguists are presenting: •Travis Major and Harold Torrence: “Say”-chains, not “say”-complementation •Stefan Keine (with Hedde Zeijlstra): Morphology of extraction: Reappraising vP phasehood •Alum Natasha Korotkova: The subjective heart of evidentiality
Read MoreThe department is thrilled to announce a pledge by the Bohne and Bye Trust for a $2,000,000 gift to establish and support a Linguistics Laboratory Program. The eventual gift will help fund staff, research assistants, equipment, and research in the department’s labs. In the meantime, university matching funds of $500,000 will establish the Thomas J….
Read MoreCongratulations to 4th year PhD student Canaan Breiss and Professor Bruce Hayes for having their paper recently accepted to Language. The title of the paper is “Phonological markedness effects in sentence formation.” You can find a pre-print here.
Read More4th year PhD candidate Connor Mayer has had his paper “An algorithm for learning phonological classes from distributional information” accepted to Phonology. This work was based on his UCLA master’s paper. You can find a pre-print here. Congratulations, Connor!
Read MoreThe Department was well-represented at the December 2019 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in San Diego. Current faculty and students who were authors of posters include: Suzy Ahn, Jake Aziz, Phill Barnett, Matt Faytak, Jinyoung Jo, Hiro Katsuda, Pat Keating, Jennifer Kuo, Connor Mayer, Christine Prechtel, Brice Roberts, Jeremy Steffman, Megha Sundara, Gabe…
Read MoreCongratulations to everyone working on this project! Get it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1733870105/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=schuhschrift&qid=1573072179&sr=8-1
Read MoreShown in the photo are Bruce Hayes, Theresa and Henry Biggs, and Dean David Schaberg. On Oct. 30, the department celebrated the establishment of the Theresa A. and Henry P. Biggs Centennial Term Chair in Linguistics with a reception and lecture. The Chair has been endowed by the Biggses to honor Prof. Bruce Hayes,…
Read MoreThe UCLA Department of Linguistics seeks to fill a ladder faculty position, at the Assistant Professor level starting July 1, 2020, for a computational linguist. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong engagement with linguistic theories and great potential for outstanding research and teaching. For the full job ad including requirements, and to apply, please click…
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