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Blake Lehman wins Lenart Graduate Travel Fellowship

Published: April 14, 2020

Congratulations to S. Blake Lehman who was just awarded the Harry and Yvonne Lenart Graduate Travel Fellowship. The fellowship is highly competitive and provides funds for travel and living expenses…

Category: Awards, Fieldwork, General, Graduate Students

Iara Mantenuto receives grant from the Foundation for Endangered Languages

Published: March 13, 2020

Congratulations to PhD candidate Iara Mantenuto for receiving a Foundation for Endangered Languages Grant! These grants go to “projects that focus on the revitalisation of an endangered language and/or support…

Category: Celebrations, Graduate Students

Congratulations Sozen Ozkan

Published: February 18, 2020

Please 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…

Category: General

UCLA @ WCCFL 38

Published: February 3, 2020

The 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….

Category: General

UCLA @ GLOW 43

Published: February 3, 2020

The 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,…

Category: Celebrations, General

Major gift from Tom Bye (Ph.D. 1976)

Published: January 31, 2020

The 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…

Category: Faculty, General, Graduate Students, Journal Publications, Publications

Canaan Breiss and Bruce Hayes publish article in Language

Published: January 8, 2020

Congratulations 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…

Category: General, Graduate Students, Journal Publications, Publications

Connor Mayer publishes article in Phonology

Published: January 8, 2020

4th 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…

Category: Alumni, Conferences, Faculty, Graduate Students

UCLA at Fall 2019 ASA meeting

Published: December 10, 2019

The 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,…

Category: Books, Publications

“Schuhschrift: Papers in Honor of Russell Schuh” by Margit Bowler, Philip T. Duncan, Travis Major, Harold Torrence Has Been Published!

Published: November 7, 2019

Congratulations 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

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Blake Lehman wins Lenart Graduate Travel Fellowship

Iara Mantenuto receives grant from the Foundation for Endangered Languages

Congratulations Sozen Ozkan

UCLA @ WCCFL 38

UCLA @ GLOW 43

Major gift from Tom Bye (Ph.D. 1976)

Canaan Breiss and Bruce Hayes publish article in Language

Connor Mayer publishes article in Phonology

UCLA at Fall 2019 ASA meeting

“Schuhschrift: Papers in Honor of Russell Schuh” by Margit Bowler, Philip T. Duncan, Travis Major, Harold Torrence Has Been Published!

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