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Category: Alumni

Natasha Abner to Join U-M Linguistics Faculty

Published: July 26, 2017

Natasha Abner (PhD 2012) will be joining the Linguistics Department at University of Michigan as an Assistant Professor. She is currently at Montclair State University in New Jersey. Congratulations to…

Category: Faculty

Welcome Professor Jody Kreiman

Published: July 14, 2017

Professor Jody Kreiman, Ph.D. in Linguistics 1987 from the University of Chicago and Professor in Residence in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery in the David Geffen School of…

Category: Conferences, Graduate Students

Nicoletta Loccioni and Iara Mantenuto present at TEAM 2017 conference

Published: June 27, 2017

Nicoletta Loccioni and Iara Mantenuto presented at the Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Microvariation (TEAM) 2017 conference, from June 22-24, in Padova, Italy. There were two talks from the UCLA…

Category: Awards, General, Graduate Students

Iara Mantenuto receives one of the ten Mellon-EPIC Fellowships in Teaching Excellence

Published: June 27, 2017

Iara Mantenuto received one of the ten Mellon-EPIC Fellowships in Teaching Excellence for PhD students in the Humanities and History at UCLA for Fall 2017.

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

UCLA Presence at CLS 2017

Published: June 12, 2017

At the Chicago Linguistic Society 2017 (CLS 53), held on May 25-27, 2017, Sun-Ah Jun gave an Invited talk on “Intonational difference in syntax-marking vs. focus-marking prosodic phrasing”. Eleanor Glewwe gave…

Category: Graduate Students, Jobs

Jos Tellings accepts a post-doc at UConn

Published: June 9, 2017

Congratulations to Jos Tellings, who will be starting a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Connecticut in the fall. Jos is especially excited to move to Connecticut because of the…

Category: Awards

Ben Lewis wins faculty teaching award

Published: May 30, 2017

Prof. Benjamin Lewis, lecturer in American Sign Language, has just been named one of three awardees of the Distinguished Teaching Award for Non-Senate Faculty for his outstanding teaching. Prof. Lewis teaches American…

Category: Alumni, Graduate Students, Jobs

Jobs for Aly, Chong, Tanaka and Kuo

Published: May 22, 2017

We are thrilled to congratulate Ann Aly, Adam Chong, Grace Kuo (Ph.D. 2013, now at Concordia U., Montreal) and Yu Tanaka on accepting full-time positions! Ann Aly has just started as a Program Manager at…

Category: Awards, Faculty

Prof. Hilda Koopman wins Transdisciplinary Seed Grant

Published: May 16, 2017

Prof. Hilda Koopman is a winner of a 2017 Transdisciplinary Seed Grant, along with her collaborators Dennis Shasha (NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences) and Yizhou Sun (Computer Science, UCLA Henry Samueli…

Category: Faculty, Journal Publications

Hilda Koopman a co-author on a PNAS paper

Published: April 26, 2017

Hilda Koopman is a co-author on a PNAS paper arguing that yes, there (seems to be/is) a Neural correlate of syntactic operation Merge. From the abstract: Our results provide initial intracranial…

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Natasha Abner to Join U-M Linguistics Faculty

Welcome Professor Jody Kreiman

Nicoletta Loccioni and Iara Mantenuto present at TEAM 2017 conference

Iara Mantenuto receives one of the ten Mellon-EPIC Fellowships in Teaching Excellence

UCLA Presence at CLS 2017

Jos Tellings accepts a post-doc at UConn

Ben Lewis wins faculty teaching award

Jobs for Aly, Chong, Tanaka and Kuo

Prof. Hilda Koopman wins Transdisciplinary Seed Grant

Hilda Koopman a co-author on a PNAS paper

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