March 30, 2015
Awesomeness | Linguistic Institute | Talks
The Calques office was closed on Friday; hence today's irregular Monday issue. Please send contributions (information and news of departmental interest) to Andrew Garrett.
Awesomeness
- Emily Cibelli has accepted a post-doctoral research position at Northwestern University with Matt Goldrick. (To celebrate, Emily is giving lots of talks today.) Congratulations, Emily!
- NEH-NSF Documenting Endangered Languages grants have been announced for three Berkeley linguists (so far):
- Christine Beier, "Documenting Iquito: Text corpus and archiving" (fellowship)
- Lev Michael, "Documenting Iquito: Lexicon and morphological description" (fellowship)
- Andrew Garrett, Ira Jacknis, and Erik Mitchell: "Linguistic and Ethnographic Sound Recordings from Early Twentieth-Century California: Optical Scanning, Digitization and Access" (research grant)
Linguistic Institute
Registration is now open for the 2015 Linguistic Institute (sponsored by the University of Chicago and the Linguistic Society of America), to be held in Chicago, July 6-31. Berkeley-related highlights include:
- Courses taught by Berkeley faculty
- Andrew Garrett and Line Mikkelsen, "The Structure of Karuk"
- Larry M. Hyman, "Word Prosody"
- Sharon Inkelas, "Introduction to Morphophonology"
- Darya Kavitskaya, "Contrast in Phonology"
- Susan Lin, "Articulatory Phonetics"
- Lev Michael, "Amazonian Languages: Major Families, Linguistic Areas, and Grammatical Topics"
- Johanna Nichols, "A Linguistic History of the Western Steppe: Indo-European, its Sisters, and its Neighbors"
- Plenary lectures by Berkeley faculty
- July 14: Andrew Garrett, Forum Lecture
- July 28: Johanna Nichols, Hermann and Klara H. Collitz Lecture
Talks
- Colloquium (M 3-4:30, 370 Dwinelle)
- March 30: Alice Gaby (Monash), "This I tell ya, brother: the mutual dependence of kinship and pragmatics"
- CogNetwork (M 1–2:30, irregular place1229 Dwinelle)
- March 30: Emily Cibelli (UC Berkeley), "Cross-modal speech training in the acquisition of novel phoneme categories"
- Fieldwork Forum (Fforum, Th 2–3:30, 1303 Dwinelle)
- April 2: Joel Dunham (Concordia), "LingSync: Software for Collaborative Linguistic Fieldwork"
- Historical linguistics forum (*dhworom, F 11–12, 1303 Dwinelle)
- April 3: Alice Gaby (Monash), TBA
- Phonetics and Phonology Forum (Phorum, M 12–1, 1303 Dwinelle)
- March 30: Emily Cibelli (UC Berkeley), "Acquiring novel phoneme categories: Evidence from within-mode and cross-modal learning"
- Sociophonetic Reading Exchange and Discussion (SPREAD, F 1-2, 1303 Dwinelle)
- Syntax & Semantics Circle (F 3:30–5, 1303 Dwinelle)
- April 3: Clara Sherley-Appel (UC Santa Cruz), TBA