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The Department of LinguisticsKatie Cunningham, linguistics and English major, selected to perform at 2025 commencement “Katie Cunningham, who will graduate with honors with a degree in linguistics and English, was selected from among…
Read MoreJian-Leat Siah has been awarded an NSF scholarship to attend the workshop “Abstract and Item-Specific Knowledge Across Domains and Frameworks”, organized by our alum Canaan Briess (now at USC) and…
Read MoreDhanya Charan, a third-year Cognitive Science and Linguistics & Psychology double major at UCLA, was awarded the Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research and Creativity for her honors thesis in…
Read MoreThe 43rd meeting of West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 43) took place on April 25–27, 2025 at the University of Washington, Seattle. The following current and former UCLA…
Read MoreProfessor Jessica Rett has an op-ed published in the Los Angeles Times, titled “There’s no neutral language to describe horrific actions.” To read the full piece, click here: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-23/linguist-word-choice-deportation-immigration-enforcement.
Read MoreGraduate student, Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the James McCawley Fellowship to attend this year’s LSA Summer Institute at the University of Oregon. Congratulations Jian-Leat!
Read MoreAlum Travis Major (now Assistant Professor at USC) and Harold Torrence have been awarded an NSF grant for the project “The Crosslinguistic Components of Clausal Complementation”. Congratulations Harold and Travis!
Read MoreThe UCLA Linguistics Department is offering online and in-person summer courses for UCLA and non-UCLA students. Summer Session 2025 enrollment starts on February 1, 2025 for UCLA students and on…
Read MoreHuilei Wang has accepted a postdoc position (Humboldt Research Fellowship) in Göttingen, starting May 2025. She will be working with Hedde Zeijlstra on a syntax-semantics interface project. Many congratulations, Huilei!
Read MoreThe 49th meeting of the Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 49) took place 5–6 April 2025. The following current UCLA linguists presented: János Egressy: Size-dependent opacity meets pied-piping Hunter Johnson: More…
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