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The Department of LinguisticsProfessor Jesse Harris and graduate students Jeremy Steffman and Z.L. Zhou presented talks and posters at the 4th Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP). They were joined by Byron…
Read MoreUCLA 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…
Read MoreTravis 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…
Read MoreDistinguished 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…
Read MoreProfessor 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…
Read MoreThere 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…
Read MoreUCLA 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…
Read MoreConnor 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…
Read MoreConnor 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…
Read MoreTravis 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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