News

Category: General

Celebration of Biggs Chair

Published: November 4, 2019

  Shown in the photo are Bruce Hayes, Theresa and Henry Biggs, and Dean David Schaberg. On Oct. 30, the department celebrated the establishment of the Theresa A. and Henry P. Biggs Centennial Term Chair in Linguistics with a reception and lecture. The Chair has been endowed by the Biggses to honor Prof. Bruce Hayes,…

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Category: Jobs

UCLA Linguistics Assistant Professor Position in Computational Linguistics

Published: November 4, 2019

The UCLA Department of Linguistics seeks to fill a ladder faculty position, at the Assistant Professor level starting July 1, 2020, for a computational linguist. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong engagement with linguistic theories and great potential for outstanding research and teaching. For the full job ad including requirements, and to apply, please click…

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Category: Conferences, General, Graduate Students, Labs

UCLA at CAMP3

Published: October 31, 2019

UCLA linguists turned up for CAMP (CAlifornia Meeting on Psycholinguistics) 3, held at the woodsy UC Santa Cruz October 26-27, 2019. Participants persevered even as the power was cut on day two of the workshop! Mapping Remnant and Correlate in Persian Stripping – Vahideh Rasekhi & Jesse Harris Processing coordination ambiguity in context: Eye-tracking evidence…

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Category: Awards, Celebrations, Faculty, General

Jessica Rett is receiving the Linguistic Society of America’s Linguistic Service Award

Published: October 23, 2019

Congratulations to Jessica Rett! The 2020 winner of the Linguistic Society of America’s Linguistic Service Award is the “Pop-Up Mentoring Program (PUMP)”, whose organizers facilitate short-term mentoring of linguists by linguists. Our own Jessica Rett is one of the six organizers receiving the award, which will be presented at the New Orleans Annual Meeting in…

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Category: General, Graduate Students, Journal Publications, Publications

Richard Stockwell and Deborah Wong to Present at the 50th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society

Published: September 27, 2019

Richard Stockwell & Deborah Wong will be presenting their paper “Sprouting and the structure of ‘except’-phrases” at the upcoming 50th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 50) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 25th – 27th, 2019

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Category: General, Graduate Students, Publications

Minqi Liu’s Summer Events

Published: September 27, 2019

This past Summer, Minqi Liu attended the third Crete Summer School of Linguistics, (CreteLing 2019), at the University of Crete. She also presented a joint work with Nina Hyams and Victoria Mateu in the 14th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference, (GALA 14), in Milan, Italy. The talk was entitled Sluicing in Child Mandarin: Effects…

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