UCLA Linguistics

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information about our PhD admissions ⬇️

[UCLA Linguistics @LinguisticsUcla]

check out our new department history, written by Bruce Hayes:
https://t.co/NEfdnIGQL9

[Mark Swartz @SwartzMark]

Babies are "very good at imitating the rhythm and the intonation of the language they're hearing." --Megha Sundara (@LinguisticsUcla) https://t.co/6jBP0M3Vax

[UCLA Linguistics @LinguisticsUcla]

we are hiring TT in phonology this year!
https://t.co/0jx89XQmR7

The core qualification...[is] expertise in phonological theory. Additional qualifications... are expertise in phonological experimentation, fieldwork experience, and computational expertise.

[UCLA Linguistics @LinguisticsUcla]

we are hiring an adjunct assistant professor in phonology for next year!
https://t.co/6D7JcopfGJ

[UCLA Linguistics @LinguisticsUcla]

congrats to our 2yr student @JianLeat_Siah for winning the Best Oral Presentation Award at PaPE 2023!

his talk was titled "Learnability of prosodic end-weight effect in Malay echo reduplication: A substantive bias account"
https://t.co/AvJ2IcofSI

[UCLA Linguistics @LinguisticsUcla]

this is happening today at UCLA!

[Michel DeGraff @MichelDeGraff]

📢 Calling Creolists, Creole/Kreyòl speakers, Scholars, Educators, Activists, etc., to join me on this journey "Reclaiming Creole languages & Creole studies: Tracing paths for reparations & nation-building" #BlackLivesMatter #OurLanguagesMatter 🌍🌈 ✊🏿🇭🇹 #ToutMounSeMoun @UCLACERS

[Meg Cychosz @megseekosh]

I'm hiring a lab manager! Come study how kids develop #speech and #language in a fantastic department at @UCLA. https://t.co/lSulpfNAfG

[UCLA Linguistics @LinguisticsUcla]

we're very proud to announce that our student Jennifer Kuo @jenni_kuo has just accepted a TT job at Cornell. Jennifer studies the structure of paradigms and how they're affected by different learning biases. Congrats to Jennifer and Cornell Linguistics!
https://t.co/WekSpUC5mS

[UCLA Linguistics @LinguisticsUcla]

and you can see his 💫award-winning💫 pedagogical TikToks here:
https://t.co/rhR9GdUdE2

[UCLA Linguistics @LinguisticsUcla]

we're so happy to announce that @JakeAziz1, a fifth-year graduate student studying phonetics and phonology, just won the very prestigious UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award! 🥳

check out Jake's work here:
https://t.co/0VjC9nsOCN

[UCLA Linguistics @LinguisticsUcla]

@ian_joo_korea here's a better link for the app:
https://t.co/emoE9CdRHt

[UCLA Linguistics @LinguisticsUcla]

UCLA Linguistics alum Maura O'Leary (Swarthmore) has developed an app that randomly generates names (with IPA transcriptions) for example sentences from a user-contributed, linguist-curated database of names from a wide range of languages and cultures
https://t.co/ztPVqD573A

[UCLA Linguistics @LinguisticsUcla]

there's even an Android app for on-the-go example names!
https://t.co/l5QCLlCVFj

Congrats to Maura and her team of UCLA undergraduate RAs:
Rainey Williams, Mario Peng Lee, Sean Cunin

[First Gen Access & Equity (LSA) @LSA_firstgen]

Did you know that going to grad school for #linguistics can be funded?

Feel free to attend our Workshop for linguistics students later on March 24! Save this tweet: https://t.co/pkdqfLGSAH

[UCLA Linguistics @LinguisticsUcla]

UCLA Linguistics professor Jessica Rett pens another op-ed:
https://t.co/JRKgZ36NcM

[LingBuzz @LingBuzz]

Kuo, Jennifer: Evidence for prosodic correspondence in the vowel alternations of Tgdaya Seediq https://t.co/SUNo4D2S1S

[UCLA Linguistics @LinguisticsUcla]

our very own Prof. Rett weighing in on the Word of the Year!

[L.A. Times Opinion @latimesopinion]

Op-Ed: The term 'gaslighting' is everywhere, but are we using it the right way? https://t.co/qi2yMmRQMM

[UCLA Linguistics @LinguisticsUcla]

@karishma_imran here is information about admission, which includes info about funding:

https://t.co/5vr0a3Sbsg

[UCLA Linguistics @LinguisticsUcla]

admission to our PhD program is highly competitive, and we can only admit around 10% of applicants. here are some tips to make sure that your application showcases who you are as a linguist and how you'd succeed in our program 🧵

[UCLA Linguistics @LinguisticsUcla]

need-based application fee waivers are available to US citizens and permanent residents. unfortunately at this time, the university does not allow the department to waive fees for prospective international students

https://t.co/e7N9IRRZQ2

[UCLA Linguistics @LinguisticsUcla]

remember, your application consists of the following:
-the SOP
-writing sample
-transcripts (mailed by Jan 31)
-3 letters of reference
-TOEFL scores for international applicants (some exceptions)
-fellowship application
-we do NOT require GRE scores
-application fee ($135-$155)