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Labor and Workplace Studies
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Law
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Linguistics
The Department began as an interdepartmental
program in 1960. For the first two years only an MA was offered.
A doctoral program was approved and implemented in 1962 and a bachelor's
program in 1965. In 1963, the Center for Research in Languages and
Linguistics was founded. The Center provided a reading room, administrative
services, and a sense of unity for the fledgling linguistics program.
The members of the first class of doctoral students founded the
Graduate Linguistics Circle, the organization of graduate students
which continues to this day to provide vitality to the Department.
On July 1, 1966, in a sort of Phoenix relation
to the Center for Research in Languages and Linguistics, the Department
of Linguistics officially came into being and the Center was phased
out. It was through the Center that the 1966 Linguistic Institute
was organized and administered.
The physical life of the Department began with
the administrative office and the
Reading Room in the Graduate School of Management, the Phonetics
Laboratory in Rolfe Hall, the African language section in Royce
Hall, and faculty offices scattered about the campus. In 1973 the
Department moved to its first consolidated quarters on the second
floor of Campbell Hall, with the Phonetics Laboratory expanding
to occupy space both in Rolfe and the basement of Campbell. The
Department occupied these "temporary" quarters for the
next 18 years, finally moving in its twenty-fifth year of existence
into entirely renovated quarters, with all offices, laboratories,
and communal areas in contiguous space on the second and third floors
of Campbell Hall.
From its earliest days the Department was recognized
as one of the most distinguished in the world in most areas of theoretical
linguistics as well as in the African, American Indian, South and
East Asian, and Pacific language areas. The Phonetics Laboratory
is internationally recognized as a major center for the experimental
study of linguistic phonetics. In 1970, the UCLA Linguistics Department
was ranked second (tied with Texas) in a national survey by the
American Council of Education. The Department again achieved this
ranking in 1980 in a national survey of undergraduate programs.
Serving as chairs of the Interdepartmental Program
were Harry Hoijer (1960-1963), William O. Bright (1963-1964), and
Robert P. Stockwell (1964-1966). Jaan Puhvel served as the director
of the Center for Research in Languages and Linguistics from 1963
to 1967. Departmental Chairs of Linguistics: Robert P. Stockwell
1966-1970; 1971-1973; 1980-1985; Victoria A. Fromkin 1970-1971;
1973-1977; Peter N. Ladefoged 1977-1980; Paul M. Schachter 1985-1988;
Russell G. Schuh 1989-1993; Tim Stowell 1994-1998. Edward L. Keenan
began his term as departmental chair in 1998. From 1965-1991, UCLA's
Department of Linguistics awarded 818 Bachelor of Art degrees, 278
Masters, and 182 Ph.Ds. source
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