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The Department of LinguisticsFrom L to R: Henry Biggs, Marija Tabain, Patricia Keating With a generous donation from Dr. Henry Biggs (UCLA PhD, 1996) and Theresa Biggs (UCLA MA, 1993), the UCLA Linguistics…
Read MoreCongratulations to Laurel Perkins and collaborators, whose paper “Thematic content, not number matching, drives syntactic bootstrapping” was awarded the 2025 Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award by the journal Language Learning…
Read MoreThe 50th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) took place November 6-9, 2025. The following current and former members of our department presented: Laurel Perkins (faculty): “Wh-dependency representations at…
Read MoreGrace Shoemaker, who graduated in 2025 from Linguistics at UCLA, is first author on a new paper out in the journal Health Communications. The paper is co-authored with faculty member…
Read MoreContinuing Lecturer Daria Bahtina was interviewed for The Guardian’s feature on Gen Alpha slang, where she discussed the meaning behind the seemingly meaningless “six-seven.” Her comments highlight how slang fosters…
Read MoreThe 56th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 56) was held on October 17-19th, 2025, at NYU. The following UCLA linguists presented: Boram Kim (current PhD student):…
Read MoreGraduate Student Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the Victoria Fromkin Memorial Prize for Student Excellence in Phonology and will be recognized at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting next year. Congratulations, Jian-Leat!
Read MoreProfessor Pamela Munro was recently featured in LAist for her work helping Angelenos connect with the Tongva language through local plants. The article highlights a guided hike at Coldwater Canyon…
Read MoreThe Annual Meeting on Phonology 2025 took place on September 25-26, 2025, at UC Berkeley, with a special session on “Deep Phonology: Doing phonology with deep learning” on September 27. The…
Read MoreFrom June 16-September 19, 2025, the Linguistics Main Office will be closed on Fridays and all staff will work remotely. Summer 2025 Schedule
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