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The Department of LinguisticsSandy Disner (Ph.D. 1983; now at USC) was interviewed on CNN Newsroom yesterday in relation to the current news story regarding former American P.O.W. Bowe Bergdahl’s potential language attrition.
Read MoreNatasha Abner (Ph.D. 2012, currently at U. Chicago) will take up a tenure-track position in the Department of Linguistics at Montclair State University in New Jersey, starting this Fall. Congratulations…
Read MoreBenjamin George (Ph.D. 2011, currently at Yale) will be taking up a tenure-track position in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, starting this Fall. Congratulations Ben!
Read MoreUCLA Semanticists Margit Bowler and Yael Sharvit both presented at SALT 24 this weekend at NYU in New York City. Margit Bowler, Conjunction and disjunction in a language without ‘and’….
Read MoreDepartment Chair, Bruce Hayes, writes: Jessica Rett’s tenure has come through — the occasion for a spontaneous and well-attended champagne celebration that spilled from her office into the s-side hallway! …
Read MoreThe biannual Speech Prosody conference is taking place this week in Dublin, Ireland. UCLA phoneticians (current and former) will be well-represented! Ann Bailey, Intonational Phonology of Cuban Spanish: A Preliminary…
Read MoreLaura Kalin defended her dissertation, Aspect and argument licensing in Neo-Aramaic, yesterday (Chair: Anoop Mahajan). Congratulations Laura!
Read MoreJos Tellings will swapping the SoCal heat for the cool Pacific Northwest this weekend. He will be presenting at Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas (SULA) 8 which will take…
Read MoreKaeli Ward and Laura McPherson both successfully defended their dissertations last week! Kaeli Ward: On Backtracking Counterfactuals (Chair: Yael Sharvit) Laura McPherson: Replacive Grammatical Tone in the Dogon Languages (Co-Chairs:…
Read MoreLaura Kalin will be taking up a postdoctoral position at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, beginning in Fall 2014, where she will be working with Jonathan Bobaljik. Congratulations Laura!
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