Linguistics Department News (Calques)

Gabriella Licata (UC Riverside) will be leading a three-day workshop on "Quantitative Approaches to the Study of Language Attitudes and Bias" from 4-6pm on March 18, 20, and 21 in 5303 Dwinelle Hall. To register (for any or all sessions), kindly email Justin Davidson. Here is a description of the workshop:

In this 3-day intensive workshop, Dr. Licata will present a deep dive into methodologies and analyses for empirical studies of language attitudes and linguistic bias, including the matched guise test (MGT), the implicit association test (IAT), and relevant data analyses in R (exploratory factor analysis, ordinal regression, correlation analyses). Should you not see yourself as a sociolinguist working on attitudes and bias, the skills and software you'll be exposed to in the workshop are nice tools to have at your disposal, if even for the eventual mentoring of future students that would seek your guidance on how to use them!

Calendar:

Day 1 (March 18): Matched Guise and Exploratory Factor Analysis

Day 2 (March 20): Implicit Association Test

Day 3 (March 21): Quantitative Analysis via Ordinal Regression and Correlation Analyses

Gabriella Licata is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Center for Ideas and Society at UC Riverside and Lead Researcher at Mount Tamalpais College inside San Quentin Prison. She takes interdisciplinary approaches and uses mixed methodologies to uncover systemic [linguistic] discrimination as a resource for reform, abolition, and liberation. Gabriella additionally is the founder of a community-based consulting business, Restorative Research Consulting.

Gašper Beguš appeared on WNPR's morning show Where We Live on Monday, February 24, 2025. You can listen to the episode here.

Hannah Sande is giving an invited talk entitled "Exploring prosodic domains and morpheme-specific tonology in Lobi (Gur)" at Universität Leipzig on Friday, February 28. Congrats, Hannah!

In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:

• Ladino/Judeo-Spanish Working Group - Thursday Feb 27 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 4-5pm
  Carlos Yebra Lopez (Cal State Fullerton): Presentation of the book Ladino on the Internet in Ladino
• Language Revitalization Working Group - Wednesday Feb 26 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4pm
  Alexia Hatun (UCLA): "A Safe Place for Language: Linguistic Accessibility and Vitality among Non-Dominant Languages" (with a focus on Western Armenian)
• Phorum - Friday Feb 21 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
  Julianne Kapner (UC Berkeley): "Which 'u' and why: Varying vowels in Bay Area Armenian"
• Phorum - Friday Feb 28 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
  Practice talks for Exploring Boundaries: Phonological Domains in the Languages of the World
  Maksymilian Dąbkowski and Katie Russell: "Wordhood at the heart of Paraguayan Guaraní morphology"
  Kai Schenck: "Morphological domains in Yurok rhotic vowel harmony" (poster)
• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Feb 21 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
  Margaret Asperheim (UC Berkeley): "Possessors and numerosity predicates in Nukuoro 'have'-constructions"
• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Feb 28 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
  Melissa Cronin (Stanford): "On the decomposition and anteriority of used to"