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The Department of LinguisticsPat 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…
Read MoreThe 2015 Annual Meeting on Phonology took place last weekend in Vancouver, Canada. It was held jointly by UBC and Simon Fraser U. Kie Zuraw was one of the plenary…
Read MoreThis year we have a number of new students joining the department. Below is a mini-bio for each one: Luke West Coming from University of Toronto Research interests: phonetics (lexical…
Read MoreThe quadrennial International Congress of Phonetic Sciences took place in Glasgow, Scotland in early August. UCLA had a strong showing with both current and former members in attendance. The UCLA…
Read MoreSun-Ah Jun taught a 4-week course, “Intonational Phonology and Prosodic Typology”, at the LSA Summer Institute at the University of Chicago, which was held in July 6-31, 2015. She was…
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