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The Department of LinguisticsThe 2026 LSA Annual Meeting took place in New Orleans, LA from Jan. 8-11. 2026. The following current and very recent members of our department presented: Anand Abraham (PhD student):…
Read MoreThe UCLA Department of Linguistics invites applications for a Lecturer for the Spring 2026 Quarter. For more details, visit here https://linguistics.ucla.edu/job-opportunties/.
Read MoreGraduate student Kevin Liang is in the news in Catalonia again. Here is another news article written about this dissertation research on Saltatory alternations in Catalan, and how infants could…
Read MoreThe UCLA Department of Linguistics proudly congratulates Professor Victoria Mateu on being selected as a recipient in the inaugural cohort of UCLA’s Global Teaching and Research Grants. Through this award,…
Read MoreGraduate student Kevin Liang was interviewed by some members of the town hall of Parets del Vallès, Catalonia. This is the main city where he is testing infants for his…
Read MoreFrom 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…
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