Mairi McLaughlin gave a keynote presentation called "Variation, varieties, variants: the role of the media" at the 14th Kongress der Frankoromanistikverbands in Passau, Germany on September 26th. Congrats!
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September 23, 2024
Hannah Sande will give a colloquium talk on Discontinuous Harmony in Guébie at the University of Illinois Urban-Champaign on Monday, October 7.
September 19, 2024
Eve Sweetser will be making a keynote presentation, "MetaNet: its current status and future directions," in the workshop on Figurative Language and Large Language Models, at the 21st EURALEX conference in Cavtat, Croatia (Oct. 8-12, 2024).
September 18, 2024
Gašper Beguš is giving a talk at the linguistics department at Harvard University on Friday, September 20 (https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/blog/week-sept-16). The title of the talk is "Building realistic models of language with deep learning". Congrats!
September 17, 2024
Andrew Garrett has published a short essay, "Four decades in historical linguistics", as part of the continuing "40@40" series in Diachronica. (A prepublication version is here.) Congrats!
September 16, 2024
Isaac Bleaman will be giving a colloquium talk for the Program in Linguistics at Brown University on Thursday, September 26. The title of his talk is "Social dimensions of variation in Yiddish: Historical perspectives and new insights."
September 5, 2024
Becky Jarvis, Tzintia Montaño Ramírez, and Zachary O'Hagan are in Berlin this week giving presentations and posters at Language Documentation and Archiving at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (pictured here with organizing committee member Kelsey Neely, PhD 2019; Amalia Skilton, PhD 2019; and Bernat Bardagil, postdoc 2018-2020).
August 19, 2024
Professors Hannah Sande and Peter Jenks published a paper, co-authored with Malte Zimmermann (Potsdam) and Guébie community member Badiba Olivier Agodio, on definiteness in Guébie in the TripleA proceedings. The full citation information and link to the paper are as follows: Agodio, Badiba Olivier, Peter Jenks, Hannah Sande, and Malte Zimmermann. 2024. Indexed definiteness without demonstratives in GuébieIn Lecavelier, Jeanne, Niklas Geick, Mira Grubic, Prarthanaa Bharadwaj, Malte Zimmermann, eds. Proceedings of TripleA 10: Fieldwork perspectives on the semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian languages.
November 2, 2023
Hannah Sande published a chapter with Taylor L. Miller (SUNY Oswego) on "Recursion in morphology" in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119693604.morphcom070
October 27, 2023
Larry Hyman and Francis Katamba have published a new chapter on "Tonology of the Luganda noun phrase" In Achiri Blasius (ed.), The Bantu NP: Issues and perspectives: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003254188/bantu-nou...
October 26, 2023
Darya Kavitskaya gave two talks at UChicago this week: a colloquium on Oct 26th on "Functional factors in contrast preservation and loss: Evidence from Slavic” and a talk for Language Variation and Change group on Oct 27th on "Dialects of Crimean Tatar: Fieldwork and its challenges”.
Gašper Beguš gave two invited talks this week, one at Stanford NLP Seminar (https://nlp.stanford.edu/seminar/details/gasperbegus_2023.shtml) and the other at the Linguistics Colloquium at UC Davis.
October 20, 2023
Congratulations to Terry Regier, who has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Gothenburg.
October 2, 2023
Hannah Sande published an article "Is grammatical tone item-based or process-based?" in Phonology: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952675723000106.
September 28, 2023
Larry Hyman and Hildah Kemunto Nyamwaro have published an open-access article "Grammatical tone mapping in Ekegusii" (a Bantu language of Kenya) in Phonology 39(1), a special issue on Grammatical Tone edited by Nicholas Rolle (Berkeley PhD, 2018), Florian Lionnet (Berkeley PhD 2016) and Laura McPherson: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952675723000118
September 26, 2023
Gašper Beguš gave an invited colloquium talk on "Modeling Language as a dependency between the latent space and data" at the University of Arizona's Department of Linguistics on September 22, 2023. The abstract can be found here: https://linguistics.arizona.edu/events/modeling-language-dependency-between-latent-space-and-data
A new volume of papers on language documention edited by Berkeley linguistics faculty members Peter Jenks and Lev Michael includes a paper by
September 21, 2023
Gašper Beguš gave a virtual invited hall titled Modeling language from raw speech with GANs” at the CHAI: Chat about AI colloquium at the School of Data Science and AI, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Guwahati) on September 13, 2023.
September 14, 2023
Gašper Beguš recently appeared on the Stack Overflow Podcast and the STARTS podcast talking about computers and language. You can listen to the podcasts at the following links: https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/09/07/ai-brain-computer-interface-deep-implant-speech/, https://open.spotify.com/episode/2LQEGSrtoXRBUZVAhINdEI
Hannah Sande has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure! Congratulations!
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