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The Department of LinguisticsProfessor 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 the Universite de Paris Nouvelle this Spring.
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 Cognition, Lexical stress constrains English-learning infants’ segmentation in a non-native language. Cognition, 181, 105-116. Sundara, M., Ngon, C., Skoruppa, K., Feldman, N. H., Onario, G….
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 at Rethymno from July 16-27. There were 22 faculty members from universities in the US, Canada, and Europe, and approximately 200 enrolled students. UCLA alums on the…
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 Sophia, Bulgaria on August 11th. A proceedings paper is out in Formal Grammar 2018.
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 Philadelphia from June 30th – July 3rd.
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 June 12th – June 16th. A proceedings paper is out in the Proceedings of the 9th Speech Prosody International Conference.
Read MoreThere were many current UCLA students and UCLA alumni giving talks or posters at the 2018 Annual Meeting on Phonology, held at UCSD in San Diego from October 5-7, 2018. You can find slides and posters for their presentations on the AMP website. In the picture from left to right are Edward Flemming (PhD 1995;…
Read MoreThe Department is advertising three tenure-track faculty positions: Application for first language acquisition due on October 15. Applications for phonology and syntax positions due on October 20.
Read MoreNeda Vesselinova, Jody Kreiman, and Pat Keating are among the authors of a paper in the July issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, “Towards understanding speaker discrimination abilities in humans and machines for text-independent short utterances of different speech styles”. This work is part of an NSF-funded project in Electrical Engineering,…
Read MoreThe department is delighted to welcome two postdocs this summer: Dr. Vahideh Rasekhi, the first recipient of the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Postdoctoral Fellowship in Iranian Linguistics, and Dr. Matt Faytak, a phonetician working under new chair Pat Keating’s supervision. Vahideh comes to us from Stonybrook University, with a dissertation on “Ellipsis and Information Structure: Evidence from Persian”. This…
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