News

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

• 9th Annual Undergraduate Linguistics Symposium - Saturday Apr 5 - Dwinelle 3335 - 10am-4:25pm
  The symposium is being organized by the Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students (SLUgS) at UC Berkeley. Click here to see the full schedule.
• Fieldwork Forum - Wednesday Apr 9 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4pm
  Andrew Garrett (UC Berkeley): "Undamming the Klamath River: Pecwan Jim's 'Upriver coyote' creation story"
• Phorum - Friday Apr 4 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
  John Harris (University College London): "Gauging segmental prominence"
• Phorum - Friday Apr 11 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
  Yi Ting Huang (University of Maryland): "Measuring trust in research participation: A case study on SES variation in language development"
• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Apr 4 - Dwinelle 1303 (no Zoom option) - 3-4:30pm
  Jasper Jian (Stanford): "From the Igbo left periphery to the functional sequence"
• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Thursday Apr 10 (note the day) - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
  Talk by Hashmita Agarwal (UCLA)

Calques is saddened to report the passing of Berkeley Linguistics PhD alumna Miriam R. L. Petruck.

Dr. Petruck was active in the linguistics research community until her passing. She recently received a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award to create a FrameNet-inspired database of structured information about the experiences of Holocaust survivors.

In and around the Department of Linguistics today and in the week following Spring Break:

• Phorum - Friday Mar 21 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
  Talk by Rhosean Asmah (UC Berkeley)
• Phorum - Friday Apr 4 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
  John Harris (University College London): "Gauging segmental prominence"
• Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Monday Mar 31 - Dwinelle 5125 and Zoom - 2-3pm
  Talk by Sarah Ertel (UC Berkeley)
• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Mar 21 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
  Masoud Jasbi (UC Davis): "Definiteness and plurality in a language with no definite determiner and two types of plurals"
• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Apr 4 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
  Talk by Jasper Jian (Stanford)

Here's the latest from the California Language Archive:

• Thanks to the efforts of Shweta Akolkar and Wendy Costa, we've accessioned a second series to the Heather Hardy Collection of Tolkapaya Yavapai Language Materials, consisting of 23 cassette recordings of Molly Fasthorse (1910-2000). Yavapai is a Yuman language of Arizona. The recordings span collaborations at UCLA in the late 1970s and at the University of North Texas in 1981.

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

• Linguistics Department Colloquium - Monday Mar 17 - Dwinelle 370 and Zoom (passcode: lx-colloq) - 3:10-4:30pm
  Kathryn Davidson (Harvard): "Information Structure Insights from Sign Language Anaphora"
• Fieldwork Forum - Wednesday Mar 19 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4pm
  Line Mikkelsen (UC Berkeley): "Some challenges of establishing focus structure through elicitation"
• Phorum - Friday Mar 14 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
  Cooper Bedin (UC Santa Barbara): "Towards participant-driven analyses in sociolinguistic studies of gender and sexuality"
• Phorum - Friday Mar 21 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
  Talk by Rhosean Asmah (UC Berkeley)
• Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Monday Mar 17 - Dwinelle 5125 and Zoom - 2-3pm
  Discussion of Hall-Lew 2024
• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Mar 14 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
  Line Mikkelsen (UC Berkeley): "Cross-clausal movement and its limits"
• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Mar 21 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
  Talk by Masoud Jasbi (UC Davis)

Last week Amy Rose Deal traveled to Massachusetts to give talks at UMass and in the MIT colloquium series (on case sensitivity in syntax), along with a ling-lunch talk on de re attitude reports.

Congratulations to Nicole Holliday and Paul E. Reed (University of Alabama) on the publication of their article "Gender and racial bias issues in a commercial 'tone of voice' analysis system" in PLoS ONE!

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

• Ladino/Judeo-Spanish Working Group - Thursday Mar 13 - Dwinelle 1303 - 4-5pm
  Ora de Echar Lashon (beginner-friendly conversation hour) with special guest Nesi Altaras, Ladino language activist, heritage speaker, and PhD student at Stanford
• Language Revitalization Working Group - Wednesday Mar 12 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4pm
  Peer Support & Troubleshooting Workshop (Bring your LR project puzzles, updates, and questions! Open to everyone: faculty, students, and beyond)
• Phorum - Friday Mar 14 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
  Cooper Bedin (UC Santa Barbara): "Towards participant-driven analyses in sociolinguistic studies of gender and sexuality"
• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Mar 7 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
  Ahmad Jabbar (Stanford): "Conditional rhetorical questions"
• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Mar 14 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
  Line Mikkelsen (UC Berkeley): "Cross-clausal movement and its limits"

Congratulations to Tyler Lee-Wynant, who will be giving two talks about his language revitalization work on Northern Pomo at the 9th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation this weekend:

• 3/8 - "Language ideologies and language attitudes in a Northern Pomo high school class" (co-presenting with Catherine O'Connor, Boston University)
• 3/9 - "Set-up of an open-access and community-independent online language course for a reawakening language: The case of Northern Pomo"