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UCLA at CUSP 11!

Published: October 17, 2018

UCLA will be represented at California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics (CUSP) 11, held October 27-28 at UC Berkeley. Maura O’Leary will be presenting joint work with Adrian Brasoveanu, and Beth…

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

UCLA linguistics at NELS49

Published: October 15, 2018

Travis Major & Connor Mayer; Victoria Mateu & Nina Hyams; and Shu-hao Shih presented their work at the 49th annual North East Linguistics Society meeting at Cornell University, Ithaca, October…

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Category: Conferences, Faculty, Graduate Students, Talks

Ed Keenan and Jacob Aziz at 14ICAL

Published: October 15, 2018

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Edward Keenan gave a keynote address at ICAL (International Conference of Austronesian Languages) at the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar. One of our new graduate students, Jacob…

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Category: Books, Faculty, Publications, Talks

Ed Keenan’s new book & lecture series

Published: October 15, 2018

Professor Keenan has published a new book: Eliminating the Universe (Logical Properties of Natural Language) by World Scientific Press. He also gave a one month series of lectures on syntactic typology at…

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Category: Faculty, General, Journal Publications

Language lab published in Journal Cognition

Published: October 11, 2018

There are two papers from the infant lab this year in the Journal Cognition. Megha Sundara & Victoria Mateu are the authors of a paper in the December 2018 issue of…

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Category: Alumni, Faculty, General, Graduate Students

UCLA Linguists at European Summer Schools

Published: October 11, 2018

UCLA linguists were represented at two Linguistics summer schools held in Europe this summer. Tim Stowell co-taught a course on Ellipsis with Jim McCloskey (UCSC) at the 2nd Crete Summer School in Linguistics, held at the Universityof Crete…

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Category: Conferences, General, Graduate Students

Mayer & Major present at the 23rd Conference on Formal Grammar

Published: October 11, 2018

Connor Mayer gave a talk in collaboration with Travis Major titled “A challenge for tier-based strict locality from Uyghur backness harmony” at the 23rd Conference on Formal Grammar, held in…

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Category: Faculty, General, Graduate Students

Mayer & Sundara present at the International Congress of Infant Studies

Published: October 11, 2018

Connor Mayer presented a poster in collaboration with Megha Sundara called “Does the developing lexicon constraint infants’ discrimination of English vowels?” at the International Congress of Infant Studies, held in…

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Category: Conferences, General, Graduate Students

Travis Major and Connor Mayer present at Speech Prosody 2018

Published: October 11, 2018

Travis Major and Connor Mayer presented their poster “Towards a phonological model of Uyghur intonation” at the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody, which was held in Poznań, Poland from…

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Category: Alumni, Conferences, General, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students

UCLA at AMP 2018

Published: October 10, 2018

There were many current UCLA students and UCLA alumni giving talks or posters at the 2018 Annual Meeting on Phonology, held at UCSD in San Diego from October 5-7, 2018….

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