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The Department of LinguisticsDear 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…
Read MoreKatya 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)…
Read MoreIn 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…
Read MoreBig 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…
Read MoreNoah 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreJános 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…
Read MoreFrom June 26, 2023 – September 15, 2023, the Linguistics Main Office will be closed on Fridays and all staff will work remotely. Staff will also work an alternate schedule…
Read MoreGraduate student Hashmita Agarwal presented her work titled “Dependent dative case in Hindu-Urdu” at the (formal) Approaches to South Asian Languages 13 (FASAL-13) conference on April 1st.
Read MoreThe 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 41) is happening this week, hosted by the University of California, Santa Cruz. The program features several talks by UCLA linguists:…
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