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Category: General

Now Hiring for Staff Position – Graduate Student Affairs Officer

Published: January 31, 2024

Staff Position – Graduate Student Affairs Officer The UCLA Department of Linguistics invites applications for a Graduate Student Affairs Officer (official title: Student Services 4) to oversee the student affairs program in…

Category: Jobs

Now Hiring for Lecturer Position for Spring 2024

Published: January 24, 2024

The UCLA Department of Linguistics invites applications for a full-time Lecturer to teach 2 of the following 4 courses in Spring Quarter 2024: • Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition •…

Category: Conferences

UCLA @ NELS 54

Published: January 22, 2024

The 54th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 54) is happening this week, hosted by MIT. The program features several presentations by UCLA linguists: Colin Brown (with…

Category: Alumni, Awards

Laura Kalin awarded LSA Early Career Award

Published: November 24, 2023

Alum Laura Kalin (PhD 2014) is the recipient of the 2024 Early Career Award from the Linguistic Society of America, in recognition of her “exceptional record of service, research, teaching,…

Category: Faculty, General

Michelle Yuan to Join the Department of Linguistics

Published: November 7, 2023

Please join us in welcoming Michelle Yuan as an Assistant Professor for the Department of Linguistics. She will officially be on campus with us starting in January of 2024!

Category: Jobs

Tenure or Tenure-Track Phonology Professor Position

Published: September 14, 2023

The UCLA Department of Linguistics seeks to fill a faculty position (tenured or tenure-track), starting July 1, 2024, for a specialist in phonology. The core qualification for the position will…

Category: Jobs

Now Hiring for an Undergraduate Part-Time Peer Advisor Position!

Published: September 5, 2023

Dear Linguistics Undergraduates, I am so excited to announce that the Linguistics Department is now hiring for a part-time Peer Advisor position! The Peer Advisor will work closely alongside me to provide academic advising support to…

Category: Journal Publications, Publications

Katya Khlystova publishes her MA in Journal of Phonetics

Published: September 1, 2023

Katya Khlystova publishes her MA in Journal of Phonetics, Khlystova, E. A., Chong, J., & Sundara, M. (2023). Phonetic variation in English infant-directed speech: A large-scale corpus analysis. Journal of Phonetics (100)…

Category: General

Short Wave: Why Babies Babble And What It Can Teach Adults About Language

Published: August 16, 2023

In which we metaphorically enter the UCLA Language Acquisistion Lab’s recording castle, guided by linguistics researcher Dr. Megha Sundara. NPR science correspondent Sydney Lupkin temporarily takes over the host chair…

Category: General

NSF support for Katya Khlystova

Published: August 3, 2023

Big congratulations to Katya Khlystova, and advisor Laurel Perkins, for earning a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation. Katya’s project, “Computational Investigation of Extralinguistic Cognition in Developmental Parsing,” uses…

The Department of Linguistics

Now Hiring for Staff Position – Graduate Student Affairs Officer

Now Hiring for Lecturer Position for Spring 2024

UCLA @ NELS 54

Laura Kalin awarded LSA Early Career Award

Michelle Yuan to Join the Department of Linguistics

Tenure or Tenure-Track Phonology Professor Position

Now Hiring for an Undergraduate Part-Time Peer Advisor Position!

Katya Khlystova publishes her MA in Journal of Phonetics

Short Wave: Why Babies Babble And What It Can Teach Adults About Language

NSF support for Katya Khlystova

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