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