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The Department of LinguisticsThe department’s blogger is taking a short hiatus from blogging and will return in a few weeks when Fall quarter starts. Check back then for all the summer news!
Read MoreThe once-every-five years International Congress of Linguists is currently taking place in Geneva. A number of UCLA linguists (faculty, graduate students and alumni) will be presenting their work. Byron Ahn:…
Read MoreA co-authored paper by Laura McPherson and Jeffrey Heath (University of Michigan) just appeared in the most recent issue of Language. You’ll find the paper on Project MUSE’s website. Heath,…
Read MoreJason Riggle (Ph.D. 2004) is quoted in this month’s issue of The Atlantic, in “Talk to the Hands: Why some gestures die out and others endure.”
Read MoreBoth the College of Letters and Science and the Humanities Division held commencement ceremonies this past weekend. Russ Schuh (Dir. Undegraduate Studies) writes that the linguistics contingent was significantly larger…
Read MoreThis past quarter we’ve enjoyed a terrific series of colloquium talks by seven finishing Ph.D. students – an unusually high number of student talks in a single quarter. Many thanks,…
Read MoreThe Annual Department 5-K run/walk/bike-ride/lay-by-the-pool will be taking place today at Ed Keenan’s home! We’ll be swapping office chairs for some running shoes and celebrating the end of the academic…
Read MoreRuss Schuh writes: The department is offering Linguistics 1 online in the A Summer Session. This is one of only 10 regular Letters and Science courses being offered online and…
Read MoreMembers of the UCLA Phonetics Lab and friends from Head/Neck Surgery participated in the lab’s once-every-few-years human dissection class this week. We got a first hand look at the anatomical…
Read MoreChad Vicenik (Ph.D. 2011) and Megha Sundara’s paper “The role of intonation in language and dialect discrimination by adults” has just appeared in Journal of Phonetics.
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