Linguistics Department News (Calques)

Tessa Scott (PhD 2023) has just published the article "Formalizing two types of mixed A/Ā movement" in Berkeley Papers in Formal Linguistics.

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

• Linguistics Department Colloquium - Monday Nov 17 - Dwinelle 370 and Zoom - 3:10-4:30pm
  Aris Clemons (UT Knoxville): "US Black Vernacular Spanish(es): Toward a theory of Linguistic Solidarity through Blaxican Soundscapes in Southern California"
• Ladino/Judeo-Spanish Working Group - Tuesday Nov 18 - Dwinelle 1229 and Zoom - 3:40-4:30pm
  Devin Naar (University of Washington): "A Curious and Exotic Land: The United States as Reflected in Ladino Newspapers in the Ottoman Empire"
• Language Revitalization Working Group - Wednesday Nov 19 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4pm
  7000 Languages: TBA
• Phorum - Friday Nov 14 - Dwinelle 1229 and Zoom - 4:10-5pm
  Sarah Ertel (UC Berkeley alum): "The Front Vowels of Eastern Washington English"
• Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Friday Nov 14 - Dwinelle 5125 - 3-4pm
  Group study session
• Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Friday Nov 21 - Dwinelle 5125 - 3-4pm
  Justin Davidson (UC Berkeley): Special article discussion
• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Nov 21 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3:10-4:30pm
  Line Mikkelsen (UC Berkeley) and Emily Clem (UC San Diego): TBA

A paper titled "Vowel- and Diphthong-Like Spectral Patterns in Sperm Whale Codas" by Gašper Beguš, Ronald Sprouse, Andrej Leban (lab alum) and collaborators has been published in Open Mind.

On October 30, Dan Slobin recorded a Zoom interview on "Thinking for Speaking" with Maria Rosa Alonso for the series "Talking about Language" created by the University of Vigo, Galicia, Spain.

On October 31, he gave a Zoom lecture, "The wealth of the stimulus," to a conference at the University of Basel honoring Heike Behrens, a developmental psycholinguist and former editor of the Journal of Child Language. The chapter is available here.