Linguistics Department News (Calques)

Berkeley linguists are giving 18 presentations, as well as moderating and hosting several sessions, at the LSA and its sister societies, January 9-12, 2025. Congrats, all!

• Gašper Beguš: 5-minute linguist talk: "Artificial Language Learners"
• Nicole Holliday, moderator for a session on "Variation and change"

• Julianne Kapner, session organizer for "Using oral histories for sociolinguistic research"

• Gašper Beguš, presenter in a 2-day tutorial on "Deep Language Learning: Modeling language from raw speech", with Bruno Ferenc Segedin, Alan Zhou, Sneha Ray Barman, Jingyi Chen

• Sarah Ertel: "Prevelar raising in eastern Washington English"

• Nafisa Rashid: "Krio Heritage Speakers and Their Use of Prepositions and Verb Serialization"

• Nicole Holliday and Sabriya Fisher (Wellesley): "AAE morphosyntactic and prosodic feature use among students: Effects on sociolinguistic awareness and school discipline"

• Julian Vargo: "Evidence for the Effect of Visual Input on L2-Learner Vowel Production"
• Anna Knall: "Gender Assignment Strategies in Mixed Noun Phrases: Evidence from Spanish-English Bilinguals in California"

• Maksymilian Dąbkowski: "Deglottalizing contamination in A'ingae historical derivatives"

• Alexandra Pfiffner, Lindsay Hatch, & Katherine R. Russell: "Acoustics and Aerodynamics of Nghlwa Implosives"

• Amber Galvano, Sansan Claude Hien, and Hannah Sande: "Phonetic and phonological patterning of glottalized sonorants in Lobi"

• Madeleine Oakley (CSU San Marcos) and Hannah Sande: "The acoustic properties of implosives in Guébie (Kru)"

• Amber Galvano: "The role of sexuality in an intersectional approach to vowel space variation"

• Isaac Bleaman & Chaya Nove (Brown) – "Sources of linguistic variation in testimony interviews with Holocaust survivors"

• Julianne Kapner & Maya Ravindranath Abtahian (U. of Rochester): "Oral histories for community-engaged sociolinguistics: insights from the 19th Ward"

• Julianne Kapner: "The Armenian Language in the Bay Area Project: oral history for diaspora sociolinguistics"
• Kai Schenck: poster on An Emergent analysis of Yurok initial h"
• Maksymilian Dąbkowski and Gašper Beguš: poster on "Large language models and linguistic recursion"
• Gašper Beguš: poster on "CiwaGAN: Informative imitation with articulatory learning"

A workshop on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Languages, Cultures, and History of Contemporary Amazonia will be held at Berkeley on December 13, in 1229 Dwinelle Hall, with several talks by current and former Berkeley linguists:

• 10:00AM Emanuele Fabiano (Coimbra), Joshua Homan (Kansas) & Zachary O'Hagan (Berkeley), "New Perspectives on Omurano (isolate; Peru) Based on Archival Records and Oral Histories"
• 10:45AM Zachary O'Hagan (Berkeley), "A Close Reading of Elicitation with a 99-year-old Speaker of Chamikuro (Arawakan; Peru)"
• 11:30AM Stephanie Farmer, "Reflections on the Documentation of Muniche (isolate; Peru) Fifteen Years Later"
• 1:30PM Lev Michael (Berkeley), "Linguistic Phylogeny and the Arawakan Settlement of the Greater Ucayali Basin"
• 2:15PM Karen Shiratori (Coimbra), "The Song of Atxu: The Right to Memory and the Recovery of the Language of a Hi-Merimã Survivor"
• 3:00PM Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen (Helsinki), "Apurinã Language Vitality and Deforestation on the Purús River"
• 3:45PM Laura R. Graham (Iowa), "A’uwẽ (Xavante) Mrémé in the Brazilian Linguistic Landscape"