Congratulations to Isaac Bleaman(link is external), who will be giving an invited research talk titled "Holocaust Testimonies in Yiddish Language Research and Pedagogy" at the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies on February 24. More info is available here(link is external).
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January 29, 2025
December 18, 2024
Greg LeBlanc's podcast unSILOed(link is external) features a new interview with Andrew Garrett(link is external) on "The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall — Revisiting the Past and Renaming the Present(link is external)" (including both audio and video versions).
December 12, 2024
Research by Gašper Beguš(link is external) has recently been featured in Canadian Geographic's Out of our depth: speaking with whales. Link to the story:
A review by Chloé Laplantine of Andrew Garrett(link is external)'s book The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and Indigenous California(link is external) has appeared in the journal Histoire Épistémologie Langage(link is external) 46/2 (2024):
December 5, 2024
Lev Michael will be on research leave during Spring and Fall 2025 to carry out research supported by a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship. Lev is planning to work with speakers of four Arawakan languages, Asháninka, Ashéninka, Nomatsigenga, and Yanesha', on a variety of topics aimed at clarifying the historical and language contact relationships among Peruvian Arawakan languages and their non-Arawakan neighbors. Congrats, Lev!
Work by Gašper Beguš and Ronald Sprouse and coauthors has been highlighted at the Science Fair at the WIRED's Big Interview on December 3, 2024. More info about the event: https://events.wired.com/big-interview/home(link is external). The preprint is available at https://osf.io/preprints/osf/285cs(link is external). Congrats!
November 21, 2024
Larry Hyman(link is external) will give a virtual keynote speech at the 2024 International Forum on Phonology, held at Tianjin Normal University this weekend. His talk "Milestones in the Development of Generative Phonology" will take place at 5pm Pacific Saturday, November 23 (Sunday morning in China). The conference is being held in honor of Wang Jialing, who introduced optimality theory into China. Congrats, Larry!
Nicole Holliday(link is external) is quoted in an article on ‘Government by the worst’: why people are calling Trump’s new sidekicks a ‘kakistocracy’ in the Guardian(link is external). From the article: “Americans, Holliday says, love labels.
November 14, 2024
Isaac Bleaman(link is external) will be traveling to Toronto next week to give three research colloquia: one in Yiddish for the Jewish Studies program at the University of Toronto (Nov. 20), and two in English for the linguistics programs at York University (Nov. 21) and the University of Toronto (Nov. 22). Congrats!
October 31, 2024
Mairi McLaughlin(link is external) 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.
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 15, 2024
The Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony (Nancy A. Ritter & Harry van der Hulst, editors), has just appeared in print with several contributions by current and former Berkeley linguists:
2. The role of consonants in vowel harmony, Gunnar Ólafur Hansson (PhD 2001)
13. Phonology that will not harmonize, Larry M. Hyman
39. Psycholinguistic approaches to vowel harmony, Anne Pycha (PhD 2008) and Sara Finley
51. Vowel harmony in non-Bantu Niger-Congo languages, Nicholas Rolle (PhD 2018) and Olanike Ola Ori
68. Umlaut in Germanic languages, Gunnar Ólafur Hansson (PhD 2001) and Richard Wiese
Congrats, all!
Alexandra Pfiffner(link is external) 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
Mairi McLaughlin(link is external) is giving a paper called News as a Site of Language Contact from the Early-Modern Period to the Contemporary at a workshop on Language Contact in Translation(link is external) on 17-18 October in Germersheim, Germany.
Andrew Garrett(link is external)'s book The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and Indigenous California has been reviewed or featured in two new publications:
- James Clifford, "A complex legacy(link is external)", European Journal of Sociology 65 (2024)
Larry Hyman(link is external) gave the following talk on October 10, 2024 at the Langage, Langues et Cultures d’Afrique (LLACAN, UMR 8135) research lab of the CNRS, the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO(link is external)) and the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE(link is external)), Paris: "
October 6, 2024
At 12 noon on Thursday, October 17, in the Bancroft Library Roundtable(link is external) series, Andrew Garrett(link is external) will present a Zoom talk “The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall — Indigenous and University Histories in Bancroft Collections.” Register at ucberk.li/kroeber(link is external). Abstract:
"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."
September 26, 2024
Larry Hyman and Johanna Nichols, together with several co-editors, have published a volume on "Language change for the worse(link is external)" with Language Science Press. The full citation is below. Congrats!
Enke, Dankmar W., Hyman, Larry M., Nichols, Johanna, Seiler, Guido, Weber, Thilo & Hölzl, Andreas (eds.). 2024. Language change for the worse. (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 33). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5116353
Andrew Garrett(link is external)'s essay "Remembering Anna Morpurgo Davies(link is external)" has appeared as part of "Anna Morpurgo Davies, 10 years on(link is external)", a collection of memorial essays published by the Philological Society on the tenth anniversary of the death of Anna Morpurgo Davies (1937-2014), whose career included stints as a Be
September 25, 2024
Larry Hyman(link is external) presented a paper "Latent high tones in Limba (Tonko dialect; Sierra Leone)" at a workshop on Pertinacious Phonology & Morphology,
organized by Aditi Lahiri (Oxford University), held September 23- 25, 2024 at Ettington Park Hotel. Congrats!
organized by Aditi Lahiri (Oxford University), held September 23- 25, 2024 at Ettington Park Hotel. Congrats!
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