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Jessica Rett is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at UCLA, specializing in formal semantics, pragmatics, and the philosophy of language. She received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2008. Her research focuses on the complexities of language meaning and use, particularly in the realms of semantics-pragmatics interface, degree semantics, and event semantics. Rett has published extensively on topics including linguistic meaning acquisition and the implications of Grice's maxims in communication. She engages in cross-domain parallels in semantic study and is dedicated to understanding non-truth-conditional content in language. Her ongoing work includes investigating how children acquire linguistic meaning and the linguistic encoding of spaces through spatial vectors. Rett has held numerous colloquia and talks, sharing her expertise globally at institutions such as Oxford University and the University of Rochester.
Department of Economics admits primarily for the PhD program.