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The Department of LinguisticsBrian Smith, who has been a lecturer in the department for the last two years, has just accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Linguistics at…
Read MoreSeveral of our students and faculty recently presented at the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 47). Talks: Harold Torrence: Subject oriented complementizer agreement in Ibibio John Gluckman: Taking time…
Read MoreSCAMP: Southern California April Meeting on Phonology was held at UCSD over the weekend (thank you to Eric Baković (UCSD) for organizing it!). A number of UCLA phonologists had talks/posters:…
Read MoreByron Ahn (Ph.D. 2015) and Laura Kalin (Ph.D. 2014) have both accepted tenure-track positions in linguistics at Princeton University. Byron is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College, while…
Read MorePat Keating appears in an article covering what is”vocal fry” and who use it. Vocal Fry Article An open letter Sameer Ud Dowla Khan (PhD 2008, now at Reed) wrote…
Read MoreThis year, we had several students present at the LSA 2016 Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., and our very own Patricia Keating was an invited plenary speaker. Her talk was…
Read MoreCraig Sailor (Ph.D. 2014) recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship at U. of Groningen in the Netherlands where he work was working with Mark de Vries on an ERC funded project…
Read MoreNatasha Korotkova, one of our current PhD candidates, gave a talk entitled “Evidentials and questions” at the invited workshop “Differentiating contents” hosted by the Center for Formal Epistemology, Carnegie…
Read MoreCongratulations to Ann Ali for successfully defending her dissertation prospectus. She is the first person this academic year to do so. Ann’s work focuses on the intonation of Basque/Spanish bilinguals when code-switching. …
Read MoreMargit Bowler, a 4th year graduate student doing fieldwork in semantics in Walpri, was invited to give a talk at the Stanford Department of Linguistics on November 4th. A short…
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