Awards

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Alum Travis Major and Harold Torrence have been awarded an NSF grant

Alum Travis Major (now Assistant Professor at USC) and Harold Torrence have been awarded an NSF grant  for the project “The Crosslinguistic Components of Clausal Complementation”. Congratulations Harold and Travis!

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Congratulations to Dr. Daria Bahtina on Receiving the 2026 UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Daria Bahtina on receiving the 2026 UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award in Undergraduate Mentorship! This well-deserved honor is UCLA’s highest recognition for teaching excellence. The […]

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Congratulations to Dr. Silvestri for the UC-AFT Council on Professional Development Award

Congratulations to Dr. Giusi Silvestri for receiving a UC-AFT Council on Professional Development award for the project, “Syntax and semantics of expletive negation in Romance languages.”

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Congratulations to Meg Cychosz!

Congratulations to Meg Cychosz, who has received an NIH KL2 sub-award (PI Mitchell Wong, UCLA Clinical & Translational Science Institute) ! Project title: Leveraging automatic speech recognition and neuro-imaging to develop […]

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Congratulations to Ph.D. Alum Canaan Breiss on New Faculty Role at the University of Chicago

Our 2022 Ph.D alumus Canaan Breiss has accepted an offer as a Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. Congratulations, Canaan!

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Congratulations to Professor Harold Torrence!

Congratulations to Professor Harold Torrence on receiving a grant through the Faculty Forward Initiative from the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion! The funding will support the project Supporting URM […]

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Dhanya Charan awarded the Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research & Creativity for her honors thesis in Linguistics

Dhanya Charan, a third-year Cognitive Science and Linguistics & Psychology double major at UCLA, was awarded the Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research and Creativity for her honors thesis in […]

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Graduate student Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the Dissertation Fieldwork Fellowship ($1,800), administered by the UCLA International Institute

Graduate student Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the Dissertation Fieldwork Fellowship ($1,800), administered by the UCLA International Institute. It will be used to support his fieldwork on Kalabakan Murut, as part of […]

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János Egressy receives award at GLOW

Many congratulations to Ph.D. candidate János Egressy, who was awarded a prize for best student presentation at GLOW 48! His talk was titled “Williams Cycle effects and successive cyclicity unified“. […]

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Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the first place in the student poster session at the 2025 LSA Summer Institute

Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the first place in the student poster session at the 2025 LSA Summer Institute. He presented on his MA project, “Learnability of Prosodic End-Weight Effect in […]

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Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the James McCawley Fellowship

Graduate student, Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the James McCawley Fellowship to attend this year’s LSA Summer Institute at the University of Oregon. Congratulations Jian-Leat!

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Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the Victoria Fromkin Memorial Prize for Student Excellence in Phonology

Graduate Student Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the Victoria Fromkin Memorial Prize for Student Excellence in Phonology and will be recognized at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting next year. Congratulations, Jian-Leat!