Welcome to the Cluster on Language Research at UC Davis!
The Cluster on Language Research is an interdisciplinary student-run organization supporting any research and collaboration in the domain of “language.” The research interests of our members span a broad range of language-related topics, including but not limited to: language structure and variation, psycholinguistics, pedagogy, bilingualism, child language acquisition, second language development, sociolinguistics, and typology, to name a few.
Each quarter, we host 2-3 talks or workshops where guest speakers from both UC Davis and beyond either present their research or host professional development workshops. Some examples of past talks/workshops can be found here. Each talk / workshop involves a roughly 45-50 minute presentation followed by a few minutes of questions and discussions. The current co-chairs will be reaching out to individuals on a quarterly basis, but if you are interested in presenting at one of these talks, please feel free to contact either of us, or use the email below to reach out. We would love to hear from you!
On top of our quarterly talks, we also organize an annual symposium every May! Our symposium is run by a team of graduate students and attracts scholars from UC Davis, other UCs, other American universities, and often a handful of international attendees. The current theme for May 2026 is "Histories and Horizons." More information will be posted soon when it is available.
The Cluster draws our diverse membership from many UC Davis departments, including Linguistics, Education, Psychology, Computer Science, Native American Studies, Mathematics, Spanish and Portuguese, French, German, East Asian Languages, and NPB (Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior).
The members of the Cluster are also part of various research communities at UC Davis, such as the Language Center, the Center for Mind and Brain (CMB), the UC Davis International Center, the Phonetics Lab, the Computational Linguistics Lab, the Ferreira Lab, the Morgan Lab, the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Lab, the Cognitive Neurolinguistic (Corina) Lab, the Language Learning (Graf Estes) Lab and the UC Davis Medical Center.
Of course, the Cluster would not function at its best without the enthusiasm of our members, the wisdom of our current faculty advisor, Dr. Claudia Sánchez-Gutiérrez, and the guidance of former cluster chairpersons.
If you are interested in joining the Cluster and in hearing updates about our talks and symposium, please see the screenshot below to subscribe to our e-mail list! If you have any questions, you can e-mail us at: ucd.langsymposium@gmail.com.
We are looking forward to a fantastic year of talks and workshops, and of course, to our annual symposium in May!
