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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.”
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 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 […]
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 […]
Graduate Student Kevin Liang in the news in Parets de Vallès, Catalonia
Graduate student Kevin Liang was interviewed by some members of the town hall of Parets del Vallès, Catalonia. This is the main city where he is testing infants for his […]
Graduate student Kevin Liang is in the news in Catalonia again!
Graduate student Kevin Liang is in the news in Catalonia again. Here is another news article written about this dissertation research on Saltatory alternations in Catalan, and how infants could […]
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 […]
NSF support for Katya Khlystova
Big 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 […]
Professor Ben Eischens receives an award from UCHRI’s 2026-2027 Engaging Humanities Grant competition
Congratulations to Prof. Ben Eischens for receiving an award from the UCHRI’s 2026-2027 Engaging Humanities Grant competition. The project is titled, “UCLA-CBDIO Collaborative Mixtec Curriculum Development”. Prof. Eischens will be […]
Professor Jessica Rett Op-Ed Published in the LA Times
Professor Jessica Rett has an op-ed published in the Los Angeles Times, titled “There’s no neutral language to describe horrific actions.” To read the full piece, click here: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-23/linguist-word-choice-deportation-immigration-enforcement.
Professor Meg Cychosz Featured on UCLA Newsroom and the UCLA Humanities Division Website
Our very own Professor Meg Cychosz was recognized for her work in expanding the universe of language development research and empowering parents to help their children develop language skills! Read […]