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The Department of LinguisticsProf. Pam Munro’s linguistic revitalization work on Tongva has been showcased in the LA Times, together with interviews of both herself and members of the class she leads. The title of the article is “Tongva, Los Angeles’ first language, opens the doors to a forgotten time and place” and it was published on May 9th, 2019.
Read MoreUCLA linguistics graduate students met with colleagues in academia and industry at a roundtable at the UCLA Career Development Conference for Graduate Students & Postdoctoral Scholars to discuss career paths in linguistics and navigating the intersection of professional life and personal identity. From left: Megan Risdal (M.A linguistics, UCLA, ’15), Marju Kaps (Linguistics PhD candidate,…
Read MoreFourth year graduate student Richard Stockwell has been awarded a $250 abstract prize from the 43rd Penn Linguistics Conference. Richard’s submission, “Intensionality, contrast and ellipsis,” was one of the three best-reviewed abstracts submitted by graduate students. Congratulations Richard!
Read MoreSecond year graduate student Z.L. Zhou has received an honorable mention for the Nation Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program. According to the NSF, an honorable mention constitutes “a significant national academic achievement.” Way to go, Z.L.!
Read MoreJeremy Steffman’s paper, a slightly extended version of his MA thesis, just got accepted to Journal of Phonetics. The title of his paper is “Intonational structure mediates speech rate normalization in the perception of segmental categories”. Congratulations, Jeremy!
Read MoreUCLA students, faculty, and current visitors presented talks and posters the 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, held at the University of Colorado, Boulder on March 28-31, 2019. Canaan Breiss. Phonotactic markedness increases processing demands in speech production. Jesse Harris, Chie Nakamura, Beth Sturman, and Sun-Ah Jun. Prosody-meaning mismatches in PP ambiguity: Incremental…
Read MoreIt is our great pleasure to announce that Victoria Mateu (PhD 2016) has accepted a tenure track position in the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Effective July 1 Victoria will join the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics. Congratulations Victoria!
Read MoreWe are excited to announce that Claire Moore-Cantwell (UMass 2016) and Ethan Poole (UMass 2017) have accepted our offers, and will join our faculty as of July 2019. Claire’s research is on probabilistic patterns in phonology, using ERP and behavioral experiments and computational modeling. Ethan’s research is in syntax, semantics, and their interface, especially movement…
Read MoreCurrent and former UCLA Ph.D. students presented at the 6th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC 6), held on February 18-March 4, 2019, at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Methodologies for Teaching Mixtec Tones (Octavio Leon Vazquez and Iara Mantenuto), Traditional Music as a central pillar in language documentation: the case of…
Read MoreProf. Ed Keenan and Dr. Carol Archie have made a generous gift to the department to support fellowships for graduate students who use mathematics to understand language, or who study theoretical computational linguistics. The department is deeply grateful to Ed and Carol. Ed has been at UCLA since 1974; he retired as Distinguished Professor in…
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