UC Berkeley alumnus Charles Chang (PhD 2010) will be joining the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) as Professor of Linguistics, starting September 202
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November 7, 2024
- SSCircle – Friday, November 8 - No Meeting
- Phorum – Friday, November 8 - No Meeting
- Speaking up: Career Pathways for Language and Linguistics Students – Friday, November 8 - Dwinelle 370 - 2-3:30pm
Juan Rosas, Senior Health Equity Educator
- SSCircle– Friday, November 15 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
Franco Liu (UC Berkeley): TBA - Phorum – Friday, November 15 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
Maya Wax-Cavallaro (UCSC): TBA
October 31, 2024
Mairi McLaughlin is co-organizing a book launch on Wednesday, November 6th online from 9-11am Pacific to celebrate the publication of the volume Historical and Sociolinguistic Approaches to French, which she edited with Janice Carruthers and Olivia Walsh. The volume is intended to celebrate the career and many contributions of Wendy Ayres-Bennett so the book launch will include a response to the book by Wendy and some remarks about her career.
- SSCircle & Fforum – Friday, November 1 - Dwinelle 1303 -- 3-4:30pm
Zachary O'Hagan & Lev Michael (UC Berkeley): Reconsidering Chamikuro tense-marked determiners: Methodological and analytical perspectives - Phorum – Friday, November 1 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
Santiago Barreda (UC Davis): TBA - Ladino/Judeo-Spanish Working Group – Monday, Nov. 4 - Dwinelle 1229 - 3-4pm
Adam Mahler (Harvard) on “Editorial Cruxes and Early Judeo-Spanish texts” - LRWG – Wednesday, Nov. 6 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4pm
Anushah Hossain (UC Berkeley) on the The Politics of Script (Re)Vitalization: Case Studies of Lampung (Indonesia) and Bété (Côte D'Ivoire) - SSCircle – Friday, November 8 - Dwinelle 1303 -- 3-4:30pm
Akil Ismael (UC Berkeley): TBA - Phorum – Friday, November 1 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
TBA
There will be six talks by Berkeley linguists at NWAV 52 in Miami, November 7-9, 2024:
- Amber Galvano: "Measuring Sibilants in Speech & Sexuality Research: Beyond Spectral Moments"
- Anna Knall: "Gender Assignment Variation in Spanish-English Mixed Noun Phrases"
- Nicole Holliday: “'I Don’t Like My Conversations Being Judged By an AI'”: Issues of Bias and Quality in Social Feedback Speech Technology"
- Julia Peck: "Multilingualism and Gender Assignment:Three Parallel Systems for Loanwords in Istanbul Judeo-Spanish?"
- Rhosean Asmah: "Coronal Stop Deletion in Megan Thee Stallion's Rap and Speech"
- Niko Schwarz: "Phonetics of Liquid Neutralization in Isla Margarita, Venezuela"
Congrats, all!
October 24, 2024
Richard Rhodes is giving a talk called "The funny medial construction" on Sunday, October 27 at the 56th Algonquian Conference. Congrats!
- SSCircle– Friday, October 25 - Dwinelle 1303 -- 3-4:30pm
Huilei Wang (UCLA): Apparent overt extraction from Mandarin relative clauses - Phorum – Friday, October 25- Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
Yin Lin Tan (Stanford): Towards an indexical account of English in Singapore: Sociophonetic variation and Singlish - Halloween party! – Tuesday, October 29 - Ishi Court - 4:30-6:30pm
Everyone in the Linguistics community is invited; family and significant others are welcome to join. - SSCircle & Fforum – Friday, November 1 - Dwinelle 1303 -- 3-4:30pm
Zachary O'Hagan & Lev Michael (UC Berkeley): Reconsidering Chamikuro tense-marked determiners: Methodological and analytical perspectives - Phorum – Friday, November 1 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
Santiago Barreda (UC Davis): TBA
October 22, 2024
Gašper Beguš gave two invited talks:
- An invited plenary talk at the Bridging East and West: Cutting-Edge Perspectives in Language and Cognitive Science conference organized by the Beijing Language and Culture University on October 20, 2024. His talk was titled "New ways of modeling language".
- An invited talk titled "Jezikoslovne zmožnosti velikih jezikovnih modelov'' at the Mednarodni dan slovarjev 2024 conference, at the Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language on October 14, 2024.
Congrats!
October 17, 2024
- SSCircle – Friday, October 18
Cancelled for NELS!
- Phorum – Friday, October 18 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
Richard Wang (UC Santa Cruz): Morphosyntax-Prosody Mismatch in Beijing Mandarin: Evidence from Retroflex Lenition - LRWG – Wednesday, Oct. 23 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4pm
Vanessa Raffin (E-Reo): E-Reo: Empowering Language Revitalization with Digital Tools - SSCircle – Friday, October 255 - Dwinelle 1303 -- 3-4:30pm
Huilei Wang (UCLA): TBD - Phorum – Friday, October 25- Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
Yin Lin Tan (Stanford): Towards an indexical account of English in Singapore: Sociophonetic variation and Singlish
Here's the latest from the California Language Archive:
- In the last two weeks we have hosted two more visits supported by the new CLA Community Research Grant: Kashaya community members and collaborating linguists (left to right) Gene Buckley (PhD 1992), Gavin Antone, Jr., and Anthony Steele; and Nisenan community members (left to right) Wanda Enos Batchelor, Robin Bradley, and Billyhawk Enos (see photographs below).
- Line Mikkelsen, Grethe Schmidt, and Ellen Thrane have accessioned the new collection Kalaallisut Language Materials (Eskaleut; Greenland), featuring video recordings primarily of elicitation sessions conducted on Zoom, and (forthcoming) of Ellen and Grethe's teaching conversational Kalaallisut to students in Linguistics 170 this semester. Their collaboration began in September 2022 (Mikkelsen and Thrane) and continued in May of this year (with Schmidt). The collection-level metadata is written in English, Kalaallisut, and Danish!
Kashaya community members and collaborators
Nisenan community members
October 15, 2024
Alexandra Pfiffner is giving a colloquium talk at the University of Manitoba on October 18, titled "An audiovisual phonetic analysis of the Mandarin sibilant merger." Congrats!
October 10, 2024
In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:
- SSCircle – Friday, October 11 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
Travis Major (USC): Raised heads and subjects in Uyghur relative clauses - SLab – Friday, October 11 -Dwinelle 5125 - 3-4pm
Research discussion & updates - Phorum – Friday, October 11- Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
Kai Schenck (UC Berkeley): Modeling stochasticity, gradience, and domain effects in Yurok rhotic vowel harmony with Gestural OT. -
NELS practice talk – Monday, October 14 - Dwinelle 1303 - 4:10-5pm
Amy Rose Deal and Zach O'Hagan (UC Berkeley): Person and aspect in Taushiro split ergativity - Berkeley Language Center (BLC) Found in Translation working group - Thursday October 17 - Zoom - 12-1pm
Johnny Laforêt (Princeton): “The place of Haitian Creole and French in the Linguistic Landscape of Haiti: A Case Study of Haitians Interacting Online” - SSCircle – Friday, October 18: No meeting. Have fun at NELS 55!
- Phorum – Friday, October 18- Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
Richard Wang (UC Santa Cruz): Morphosyntax-Prosody Mismatch in Beijing Mandarin: Evidence from Retroflex Lenition
- James Clifford, "A complex legacy", European Journal of Sociology 65 (2024)
October 6, 2024
"Much of Andrew Garrett’s book The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and Indigenous California (MIT Press, 2023) is grounded in The Bancroft Library’s collections relating to anthropologist and linguist Alfred Kroeber; Kroeber’s family, including his second wife, Theodora, and his daughter, Ursula K. Le Guin; his colleagues, students, and collaborators throughout California; and Phoebe Hearst, who directed and funded his work. In this presentation, Garrett will talk about a few of the archival objects — manuscripts and photos — that had a significant impact on how he framed his argument about Kroeber’s documentation of Indigenous stories."
October 3, 2024
In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:
- SSCircle – Friday, October 4 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
NELS practice talks:
1. Morphological boundary glottals in A'ingae: A new argument for [δ] (Maksymilian Dąbkowski)
2. Person hierarchy effects from φ-agreement at the left periphery in Kawahíva (Wesley dos Santos)
3. The clause-medial vP phase is real: Evidence from Moselle Franconian (Akil Ismael & Jessica Göbel) - Phorum – Friday, October 4 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pmMarko Drobnjak (Univeristy of Ljubljana): VOICE: Verifying How Speech Perception Shapes Credibility in Legal Contexts – A Statistical and Experimental Approach with Future Machine Learning Potential
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Ladino/Judeo-Spanish Working Group – Monday, Oct. 7 - Dwinelle 1229 - 3-4pm
Conversation hour: learn to make (Turkish) coffee and tea in Ladino! (snacks included) -
LRWG – Wednesday, Oct. 9 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4pm
Anna Macknick (UC Berkeley) with a workshop on "Creating mini zines for accessible language materials" - SSCircle – Friday, October 11 - Dwinelle 1303 -- 3-4:30pm
Travis Major (USC): TBD - Phorum – Friday, October 11- Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
Kai Schenck (UC Berkeley): Modeling stochasticity, gradience, and domain effects in Yurok rhotic vowel harmony with Gestural OT.
Gašper Beguš and Maksymilian Dąbkowski published a paper on "The blurring history of intervocalic devoicing" in the Journal of Linguistics. The paper proposes a new explanation for an unusual sound change--intervocalic devoicing. The paper is available here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226724000197. Congrats!
October 1, 2024
- Aurora Martinez Kane: "In-community attitudes toward Traditional New Mexican Spanish"
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