News
Department
of Linguistics
UCLA
News as of July 2009 has been bundled into the current issue of our newsletter.
Old news (shading gradually into history) can be found on the back issues page of the newletter.
NSF Grant for Sun-Ah Jun
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September, 2009: Congratulations to Professor
Sun-Ah Jun,
who has received a five-year, $477,644 NSF grant with three co-PI's
(Janet Oh of Cal State Northridge, Terry Au of the University of Hong
Kong, and Richard Lee of University of Minnesota).
The title of the grant is "The Role of Childhood Language Memory in Adult Language Learning: Korean Adoptees Learning Korean as Adults". The grant application was based on extraordinary pilot results obtained by the PI's, which suggest that even relatively brief exposure to a particular language early in life can have beneficial long-term effects in facilitating later acquisition of that language.
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ESSLLI '09
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This summer, three of our grad students, Heather Burnett,
Thomas Graf (pictured), and Melanie
Bervoets, attended ESSLLI '09 (The
European Summer School for Language,
Logic, and Information) at the University of Bordeaux. Thomas presented
a paper at the student session, and was awarded the prize for Best Student
Paper--congratulations, Thomas!
At the same institute, two of our faculty (Ed Keenan and Ed Stabler) taught a course on an algebraic approach to natural language syntax and semantics. Two of our former students also co-taught courses: Greg Kobele, on Minimalist Grammars, and Nathan Klinedinst on Presupposition. |
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