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The Department of LinguisticsCongratulations 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…
Read MoreProf. 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…
Read MoreWe 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…
Read MoreProf. 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…
Read MoreHilda 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…
Read MoreCongratulations to Travis Major, who was just awarded the Harry and Yvonne Lenart Graduate Travel Fellowship. These very competitive fellowships provide funds for travel and living expenses for UCLA graduate students…
Read MoreGraduate Student Margit Bowler has just been chosen as a recipient of the very competitive Charles E. and Sue K. Young Graduate Student Awards for 2016-17. The College Deans select award…
Read MoreTwo of our undergraduate students, Daniel Wymark and Andy Xu, are giving oral presentations on their original research at the UCLA Undergraduate Research Week, May 22-26. Congratulations!
Read MoreSeveral members of the UCLA Language Processing Lab gave presentations at the 2017 CUNY Conference on Human Language Processing at MIT last month, including John Gluckman, Jesse Harris, Marju Kaps,…
Read MoreSemantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 27 will take place at the University of Maryland this year, and will include two UCLA alumni: Isabelle Charnavel (UCLA 2012) will present a poster…
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