Faculty
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!
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 […]
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.”
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 […]
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!
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 […]
Congratulations to Professor Victoria Mateu on Receiving Inaugural UCLA Global Research Grant
The UCLA Department of Linguistics proudly congratulates Professor Victoria Mateu on being selected as a recipient in the inaugural cohort of UCLA’s Global Teaching and Research Grants. Through this award, […]
Daria Bahtina quoted in this week’s Guardian piece on Gen Alpha slang
Continuing Lecturer Daria Bahtina was interviewed for The Guardian’s feature on Gen Alpha slang, where she discussed the meaning behind the seemingly meaningless “six-seven.” Her comments highlight how slang fosters […]
Linguistics Undergraduate First Author on New Research Article
Grace Shoemaker, who graduated in 2025 from Linguistics at UCLA, is first author on a new paper out in the journal Health Communications. The paper is co-authored with faculty member […]
Megha Sundara and Connor Mayer (now at UCI) get an NSF grant
Congratulations to Megha Sundara and Connor Mayer for receiving a National Science Foundation (NSF) award for the years 2022-2026 for their work, A new approach to computational model evaluation: Benchmarking against […]
Opinion: For voters, what Harris or Trump say may matter less than how they say it
If you’re interested in this op-ed published in the LA Times, please click here: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-10-15/harris-trump-persuasion-communication. This article was written by Professor Jessica Rett.
Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award to Laurel Perkins
Congratulations to Laurel Perkins and collaborators, whose paper “Thematic content, not number matching, drives syntactic bootstrapping” was awarded the 2025 Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award by the journal Language Learning […]