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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…

Category: General

Jobs for our graduate students

Published: July 24, 2023

Noah Elkins has accepted a position as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania. Jennifer Kuo has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department…

Category: General, Jobs

The Linguistics Department is seeking student workers!

Published: July 20, 2023

The UCLA Rolfe/Campbell Humanities Group, including the Departments of Linguistics and Spanish & Portuguese (S&P), is recruiting part-time administrative student assistants for all three “units” (Rolfe/Campbell, Linguistics, S&P) to provide…

Category: Conferences

Egressy presenting at ICSH16

Published: June 27, 2023

János Egressy is presenting this week at the 16th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (ICSH16), hosted by the University of Graz. His talk is titled “Selective opacity derived…

The Department of Linguistics

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

Jobs for our graduate students

The Linguistics Department is seeking student workers!

Egressy presenting at ICSH16

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