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The Department of LinguisticsPlease note that our staff and main office will be operating on an alternate schedule during the summer. For details on adjusted hours and staff availability, view the full schedule…
Read MoreJian-Leat Siah has been awarded the first place in the student poster session at the 2025 LSA Summer Institute. He presented on his MA project, “Learnability of Prosodic End-Weight Effect in…
Read MoreThe UCLA Department of Linguistics invites applications for a part-time Lecturer for the 2025-2026 academic year. For more details, visit here https://linguistics.ucla.edu/job-opportunties/.
Read MoreGraduate student Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the Dissertation Fieldwork Fellowship ($1,800), administered by the UCLA International Institute. It will be used to support his fieldwork on Kalabakan Murut, as part of…
Read MoreKatie Cunningham, linguistics and English major, selected to perform at 2025 commencement “Katie Cunningham, who will graduate with honors with a degree in linguistics and English, was selected from among…
Read MoreJian-Leat Siah has been awarded an NSF scholarship to attend the workshop “Abstract and Item-Specific Knowledge Across Domains and Frameworks”, organized by our alum Canaan Briess (now at USC) and…
Read MoreDhanya Charan, a third-year Cognitive Science and Linguistics & Psychology double major at UCLA, was awarded the Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research and Creativity for her honors thesis in…
Read MoreThe 43rd meeting of West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 43) took place on April 25–27, 2025 at the University of Washington, Seattle. The following current and former UCLA…
Read MoreProfessor Jessica Rett has an op-ed published in the Los Angeles Times, titled “There’s no neutral language to describe horrific actions.” To read the full piece, click here: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-23/linguist-word-choice-deportation-immigration-enforcement.
Read MoreGraduate student, Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the James McCawley Fellowship to attend this year’s LSA Summer Institute at the University of Oregon. Congratulations Jian-Leat!
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