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News
Department of Linguistics
UCLA
For older news, see the news archive and the back issues of the newletter.
July 2008
Congratulations to our current and former graduate students!
- 2008 Ph.D. Kuniko Nielsen got a tenure-track job at Oakland University.
- 2008 Ph.D. Heather Wilson got a tenure-track job at Brigham Young University.
- 2007 Ph.D. Katya Pertsova got a tenure track job at the University of North Carolina (Katya is currently doing a postdoc in the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University)
- 2007 Ph. D Greg Kobele, formerly in a postdoctoral position at INRIA, Bordeaux, has moved to take up an Assistant Professor position at Humboldt University, Berlin.
- 2008 Ph.D. Reiko Okabe got a Assistant Professor position at the University of Tokyo.
- 2008 Ph.D. David Schueler got a Visiting Assistant Professor position in linguistics at University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.
- 2008 Ph.D. Chacha Mwita will begin a Lecturer position in the Department of Kiswahili and African Languages at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya.
- Tatiana Libman is now working in a research position at Google in Santa Monica, CA.
- Kristine Yu won a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.
- Roy Becker and Ingvar Lofstedt won UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowships.
- Tomoko Ishizuka won a $6500 Sasakawa Fellowship from the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies.
- Both Tomoko and Ji Eun Kim won Lenart Travel Fellowships.
Welcome to our newest faculty member, Assistant Professor Jessica Rett, who will be an important part of our department's research and teaching in the area of semantics. Jessica recently completed her Ph.D. at Rutgers University with a dissertation entitled Degree Modification in Natural Language.
Our department renovations are complete. We now work in comfortably air-conditioned, nicely floored and ceilinged offices, protected by a modern emergency sprinkler system and equipped with ecologically-thoughtful auto-on light switches.
Forty-plus years of WPP now online: Since Fall 2007, all issues of the department’s UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics have been available to the public online at the University of California eScholarship Repository. That’s currently 106 issues, from #1 in June 1964 through #106 in September 2007. Most back issues were scanned from the original master copies, which have been archived for all these years in the Phonetics Lab. (Thanks to undergrads Cheryl Hipp and Hannah Hassig!) Recent issues also continue to be published electronically on the Phonetics Lab’s website.
A number of distinguished visitors spent time in our department this year; see our visitor's page.
June 2008
The annual UCLA Linguistics 5K Walk/Run produced outstanding times in several of the divisions, owing to the cool weather and assiduous training. Thanks to Ed K. and to Carol Archie for hosting the very nice party which followed.
May 2008
Our department hosted a fantastic WCCFL conference (West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics). Thanks to Robyn Orfitelli and the whole organizing team for a great intellectual and social experience.
April 2008
The new infant laboratory, under the direction of Professor Megha Sundara, has recently carried out the final preparations on its sound booth -- crenellation! -- and is now running subjects. Shown is the crenellator/castle builder, graduate student Chad Vicenik, with Megha in the background. Current evidence suggests that the castle format assists greatly in getting little kids to enter the booth, though it is an impediment in getting them to leave...
October 2007
The 2007 Department Halloween party inspired a number of interesting costumes.
July 2007
The Department hosted
the10th Mathematics
of Language Workshop July 28-30, 2007, with assistance from UCLA's
Institute for Pure and Applied
Mathematics (IPAM). This meeting included a special session in
honor of
Edward
Keenan's contributions to mathematical linguistics