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Professor Jody Kreiman Received the Inaugural 2019 Academic Senate Service Award

Published: May 22, 2019

Jody Kreiman received the inaugural 2019 Academic Senate Service award! Per the Academic Senate “We cannot thank you enough for the service you have provided the Academic Senate and the Department of Head and Neck Surgery. You have clearly demonstrated the outstanding qualities we look for in a recipient of this award. We are grateful…

Category: Faculty, General

Tenure for Tim Hunter

Published: May 16, 2019

Prof. Tim Hunter, of the Linguistics Department and the Program in Computational Linguistics, has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure as of July 1, 2019. Congratulations, Tim!

Category: Faculty, Fieldwork, Jobs, Staff

Temporary faculty positions in Linguistics for next year

Published: May 14, 2019

The department is advertising for the following faculty for next year: – Assistant Adjunct Professor in language acquisition/syntax/semantics Two-year position, ad closes 21 May 2019 or until filled https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF04479 – Lecturer in phonetics and phonology One-year position, ad closes 17 June 2019 https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF04560

Category: Awards, General, Graduate Students

Travis Major is awarded the Charles E. and Sue K. Young Graduate Student Fellowship Award

Published: May 13, 2019

Congratulations to linguistics graduate student Travis Major for being chosen as a recipient of the Charles E. and Sue K. Young Graduate Student Fellowship Award. These awards “recognize outstanding graduate students for exemplary academic achievement, research, and service to the campus and the community.” Only four graduate students at UCLA are chosen to receive this…

Category: Faculty, General

Prof. Pam Munro and her work on the Tongva language featured in the Los Angeles Times

Published: May 12, 2019

Prof. Pam Munro’s linguistic revitalization work on Tongva has been showcased in the LA Times, together with interviews of both herself and members of the class she leads. The title of the article is “Tongva, Los Angeles’ first language, opens the doors to a forgotten time and place” and it was published on May 9th, 2019.

Category: Alumni, General, Graduate Students

UCLA linguists at the Career Development Conference for Graduate Students & Postdoctoral Scholars

Published: April 29, 2019

UCLA linguistics graduate students met with colleagues in academia and industry at a roundtable at the UCLA Career Development Conference for Graduate Students & Postdoctoral Scholars to discuss career paths in linguistics and navigating the intersection of professional life and personal identity. From left: Megan Risdal (M.A linguistics, UCLA, ’15), Marju Kaps (Linguistics PhD candidate,…

Category: Awards, Conferences, General, Graduate Students

Richard Stockwell wins Penn Linguistics Conference abstract prize

Published: April 17, 2019

Fourth year graduate student Richard Stockwell has been awarded a $250 abstract prize from the 43rd Penn Linguistics Conference. Richard’s submission, “Intensionality, contrast and ellipsis,” was one of the three best-reviewed abstracts submitted by graduate students. Congratulations Richard!

Category: Awards, General, Graduate Students

Z.L. Zhou receives an honorable mention for the NSF GRFP

Published: April 11, 2019

Second year graduate student Z.L. Zhou has received an honorable mention for the Nation Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program. According to the NSF, an honorable mention constitutes “a significant national academic achievement.” Way to go, Z.L.!

Category: General, Graduate Students, Journal Publications, Publications

Jeremy Steffman’s paper accepted to Journal of Phonetics

Published: April 2, 2019

Jeremy Steffman’s paper, a slightly extended version of his MA thesis, just got accepted to Journal of Phonetics. The title of his paper is “Intonational structure mediates speech rate normalization in the perception of segmental categories”. Congratulations, Jeremy!

Category: Conferences, Faculty, General, Graduate Students, Labs, Talks

UCLA at CUNY 2019

Published: April 1, 2019

UCLA students, faculty, and current visitors presented talks and posters the 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, held at the University of Colorado, Boulder on March 28-31, 2019. Canaan Breiss. Phonotactic markedness increases processing demands in speech production. Jesse Harris, Chie Nakamura, Beth Sturman, and Sun-Ah Jun. Prosody-meaning mismatches in PP ambiguity: Incremental…

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Professor Jody Kreiman Received the Inaugural 2019 Academic Senate Service Award

Tenure for Tim Hunter

Temporary faculty positions in Linguistics for next year

Travis Major is awarded the Charles E. and Sue K. Young Graduate Student Fellowship Award

Prof. Pam Munro and her work on the Tongva language featured in the Los Angeles Times

UCLA linguists at the Career Development Conference for Graduate Students & Postdoctoral Scholars

Richard Stockwell wins Penn Linguistics Conference abstract prize

Z.L. Zhou receives an honorable mention for the NSF GRFP

Jeremy Steffman’s paper accepted to Journal of Phonetics

UCLA at CUNY 2019

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