Holliday speaks at CHI 2025
April 21, 2025
Nicole Holliday will be giving a micro-keynote on April 27 at the CHI 2025 Workshop on Speech AI for All: Promoting Accessibility, Fairness, Inclusivity, and Equity in Yokohama, Japan!
Recent Stories
Hyman to give commencement address at UCLA
April 21, 2025
Larry Hyman has been invited to be the commencement speaker at the UCLA Linguistics Department Graduation on June 15, 2025. UCLA is also Larry's alma mater.
Linguistics events this week (Apr 18-25, 2025)
April 18, 2025
In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:
- Fieldwork Forum - Wednesday Apr 23 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4pm
Zachary O'Hagan (UC Berkeley): "What was the language of the Tabalosos, Lamas, and Suchiches of Peru? Evidence from a 17th-century Census and Sacramental Records" - Phorum - Friday Apr 18 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
Irene Yi (Stanford): "Axes of Differentiation and Language Ideologies in Mountain vs. Town variation of /l/ alveo-palatalization in Ganguhua" - Phorum - Friday Apr 25 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
Antón de la Fuente (Stanford): "Ideological Change and Phonological Variation in the Galician of O Grove" - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Apr 18 - Dwinelle 1303 - 11am-12:10pm
Practice talks for WCCFL:
- "Perceptual adaptation in Spanish: Implications for vowel-specific factors in the learning of novel accents" (Niko Schwarz)
- "Feature interaction in the Tira agreement complex" (Peter Jenks) - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Apr 18 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
Katherine Johnson (Stanford): "Focus and clefts in Tiriki: Evidence for hyperactivity" - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Apr 25 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
Andrew Simpson (USC): "Obligatory object shift in Chinese: Aspect, definiteness, and affectedness"
Bleaman gives plenary at GLAC 31
April 17, 2025
Isaac L. Bleaman will be one of the plenary speakers at the 31st Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, taking place on May 2-3, 2025, at the University of North Texas. The title of his talk is "Social Dimensions of Variation in Yiddish: Historical Perspectives and New Insights."
Johnson colloquium at Pitt
April 17, 2025
Keith Johnson presented a colloquium talk on "Vowels in the brain" to the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh on Friday, April 11. While there he also served as an outside committee member for an undergrad honors thesis.
Cychosz joins Stanford
April 15, 2025
Congratulations to our own Meg Cychosz (PhD 2020), who has just accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University!
Garvin accepts position at OSU
April 15, 2025
Congratulations to our own Karee Garvin (PhD 2021), who has just accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the Ohio State University!
Linguistics events this week (Apr 11-18, 2025)
April 11, 2025
In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:
- Linguistics Department Colloquium - Monday Apr 14 - Dwinelle 370 and Zoom (passcode: lx-colloq) - 3:10-4:30pm
Yi Ting Huang (Maryland): "Learning language, fast and slow: How to overcome sparse data and signal degradation during real-time processing and development" - Ladino/Judeo-Spanish Working Group and Language Revitalization Working Group - Wednesday Apr 16 - Dwinelle 3335 - 3-4pm, followed by a light Passover-friendly reception
Sarah Bunin Benor (Hebrew Union College): "Language Endangerment and Reclamation in Jewish Communities Today" - Phorum - Friday Apr 11 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
Yi Ting Huang (Maryland): "Measuring trust in research participation: A case study on SES variation in language development" - Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Monday Apr 14 - Dwinelle 5125 and Zoom - 2-3pm
Talk by Marguerite Morlan - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Apr 18 - Location TBA - 11am-12:30pm
Practice talks for WCCFL:
- "Feature interaction in the Tira agreement complex" (Peter Jenks)
- "Perceptual adaptation in Spanish: Implications for vowel-specific factors in the learning of novel accents" (Nikolai Andrés Schwarz-Acosta)
- "Transitive subject relativization restriction in Northern Tujia and beyond" (Kang Franco Liu) - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Apr 18 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
Katherine Johnson (Stanford): "Focus and clefts in Tiriki: Evidence for hyperactivity"
Dąbkowski publishes in Proceedings of the LSA
April 10, 2025
Congratulations to Maksymilian Dąbkowski, whose article "Deglottalizing contamination in A’ingae historical derivatives" was published in Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America!
Peck speaks at ucLADINO and launches new revitalization tool
April 10, 2025
Julia Peck gave a talk at ucLADINO, the annual Ladino language conference hosted by UCLA, where she launched the digital version of her at-home language nesting project, Ladino en Kaza. The project equips Ladino learners to create a language nest in their kitchens. She was recently awarded a Diller Family Foundation fellowship to support the project's continuation and expansion into more rooms of the home.