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The Department of LinguisticsA 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.
Read MoreVincent Homer (Ph.D. 2010), currently at École Normale Supérierue (ENS, Paris) will be moving to the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) this October where he will be a…
Read MoreSun-Ah Jun will be assuming the role of Director of Graduate Studies in the new academic year. She takes over the role from Nina Hyams who will step down as…
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