On October 19, Line Mikkelsen will be giving a talk with Jorge Hankamer (UCSC) in Stanford's Syntax and Morphology Circle (SMircle) series. The talk is entitled "CP complements to D".
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October 9, 2018
October 8, 2018
A new SSILA Archiving Award has been inaugurated, the award committee for which is chaired by Andrew Garrett. The society says that "this award highlights the importance of creating long-term archival materials that are accessible to all communities concerned, including heritage and language communities as well as scholarly communities.
October 5, 2018
In and around the linguistics department in the next week:
- Workshop on Pronouns and Interpretation de se - Thursday Oct 11 - 10:15-11:15, 2-5
Join us 10:15-11:15 for a talk by Pranav Anand (UCSC), Perspectives for Pronouns and Reflexives, in Dwinelle 6307 [Celtic seminar room]. We reconvene 2-5 in Dwinelle 3401 for talks by Amy Rose Deal, A puzzle about reflexives of res-movement verbs, Pritty Patel-Grosz and Patrick Grosz (Oslo), The role of pronominal strength in interpretation, and Peter Jenks, Weak pronouns and variable binding. - Fieldwork Forum - Thursday Oct 11 - Matrix Conference Room (Barrows Hall 8th Floor) - 4-5:30pm
Screening of Dizhsa Nabani - Living Language, followed by a Q-and-A session with faculty and students in the Indigenous Language Revitalization Designated Emphasis - Dissertation Defense - Friday Oct 12 - Dwinelle 1229 - 10:10-1
Kelsey Neely: The Linguistic Expression of Affective Stance in Yaminawa (Pano, Peru) - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Oct 12 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
Round robin
October 4, 2018
Congrats to Susanne Gahl, who has just been named a Mercator Fellow by the DFG (German Research Foundation)! The fellowship lasts for three years and will support a collaboration with Ingo Plag and others at Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf.
October 3, 2018
This weekend features two conferences at which Berkeley Linguistics will have a major presence, one each in the east and the west:
- The Annual Meeting on Phonology, at UC San Diego, features work by faculty Larry Hyman and Jesse Zymet, along with alumni Nik Rolle (PhD 2018, now at Princeton), Hannah Sande (PhD 2017, now at Georgetown), Gabriela Caballero (PhD 2008, now at UCSD), Alan Yu (PhD 2003, now at Chicago), and Eugene Buckley (PhD 1992, now at Penn).
- NELS 49, at Cornell, features presentations by graduate students Emily Clem, Schuyler Laparle, and Tessa Scott, along with alum Maziar Toosarvandani (PhD 2010, now at UC Santa Cruz).
Congrats all!
The program for this year's LSA annual meeting has been released, and Berkeley linguistics will be represented in 14 talks and posters (plus an organized session) by students, faculty, and very recent alumni:
- Kenneth Baclawski Jr.: Optional wh-movement is discourse-connected movement in Eastern Cham
- Amalia Skilton and David Peeters (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics): Speaker and addressee in spatial deixis: new experimental evidence
- Zachary O'Hagan: Two Sorts of Contrastive Topic in Caquinte
- Emily Clem and Virginia Dawson: Feature sharing and functional heads in concord
- Noga Zaslavsky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Karee Garvin, Charles Kemp (University of Melbourne), Naftali Tishby (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), and Terry Regier: Color-naming evolution and efficiency: The case of Nafaanra
- Susan Lin and Myriam Lapierre: Articulatory patterns in contrasting nasal-stop sequences in Panará
- John Merrill (PhD '18): Polarity rules in Kobiana consonant mutation
- Jesse Zymet: Learning lexical trends together with idiosyncrasy: MaxEnt versus the mixed logit
- Andrew Cheng: Style-shifting, Bilingualism, and the Koreatown Accent
- Emily Clem: The cyclic nature of Agree: Maximal projections as probes
- Nicholas Rolle (PhD '18): A cyclic account of a trigger-target asymmetry in concatenative vs. replacive tone
- Virginia Dawson: Disjunction scope can be lexically encoded: Evidence from Tiwa
- Tessa Scott: Cyclic linearization and the conjoint/disjoint alternation in Ndengeleko
- Martha Schwarz, Myriam Lapierre, Karee Garvin, and Sharon Inkelas: Representing Segment Strength: New Applications of Q Theory [in the special session on Inside Segments, organized by Myriam Lapierre, Karee Garvin, Martha Schwarz, Ryan Bennett, and Sharon Inkelas!]
Congrats all!
Newly published with CSLI is the long-awaited volume Revealing Structure: Papers in Honor of Larry M. Hyman (eds. Eugene Buckley, Thera Crane and Jeff Good)! The book features numerous contributions by alumni, faculty, emeriti, and former visiting scholars, including:
- Jeff Good (Ph.D. 2003), Eugene Buckley (Ph.D. 1992) & Thera Crane (Ph.D. 2011): Revealing Structure in Languages and Grammar
- Jean-Marie Hombert (PhD 1975) and Rebecca Grollemund: Phylogenetic Classification of Grassfields Languages
- Sharon Inkelas: Overexponence and Underexponence in Morphology
- Joyce T. Mathangwane (Ph.D. 1996): On Tones in Chisubiya (Chiikuhane)
- Johanna Nichols: A Direct/Inverse Subsystem in Ingush Deictic Prefixes
- John J. Ohala: The Aerodynamic Voicing Constraint and its Phonological Implications
- Imelda I. Udoh (former visiting scholar): Compounding in Leggbó
- Alan C. L. Yu (Ph.D. 2003): Laryngeal Schizophrenia in Washo Resonants
Congrats, Larry, on the celebratory volume, and congrats to the editors and authors!
The Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21 have just been published, containing four papers by faculty, students, and/or alumni:
- Pranav Anand & Maziar Toosarvandani (Ph.D. 2010)
Unifying the canonical, historical, and play-by-play present. pdf - Amy Rose Deal & Julia Nee
Bare nouns, number, and definiteness in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec. pdf - Peter Jenks, Andrew Koontz-Garboden, & Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso
On the lexical semantics of property concept nouns in Basaá. pdf - Peter Sutton & Hana Filip (Ph.D 1993)
Restrictions on subkind coercion in object mass nouns. pdf
Congrats all!
September 21, 2018
In and around the linguistics department in the next week:
- Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Sept 21 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
Sabrina Grimberg (Stanford): Between Economy and Recoverability: The Case of Subject Doubling in Colloquial Finnish - Linguistic Anthropology Working Group - Friday Sept 21 - 221 Kroeber Hall - 4:30-6:30pm
Erin Debenport (UCLA): Voicing Secrets: The Language of (In)visibility in the Pueblo Borderlands - Phorum - Monday Sept 24 - Dwinelle 1303 - 12-1pm
Amanda Rysling (UC Santa Cruz): TBA - Linguistics Department Colloquium - Monday Sept 24 - Dwinelle 370 - 3:10-5 pm
Keith Johnson (UC Berkeley): Four phonetic discoveries: How I spent my sabbatical “vacation” - Special guest lecture in Ling 220A - Tuesday Sept 25 - Dwinelle 1303 - 12:40-2pm
Elisabeth Huber (LMU Munich): Tripartite English noun compounds - Fieldwork Forum - Tuesday Sept 25 - Dwinelle 1303 - 4-5:30pm
Martha Schwarz (UC Berkeley): TBA - SLUgS - Thursday Sept 27 - Dwinelle 1229 - 5-7pm
Head grad advisor Lev Michael will be giving a talk on the topic of graduate school! - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Sept 28- Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
We will hear three NELS practice talks: Emily Clem on Cyclic expansion in Agree: Maximal projections as probes; Schuyler Laparle on Locative inversion without inversion; andTessa Scott on Anti-clitic host requirement on second position clitic in SJA-Mam
September 20, 2018
The 2018-2019 colloquium series continues this coming Monday, Sept 24, with a talk by Keith Johnson. Same time as always, same place as always: 3:10-5 p.m., 370 Dwinelle Hall. The talk is entitled Four phonetic discoveries: How I spent my sabbatical “vacation”.
A group of students, faculty, alumni, and friends of Berkeley linguistics were on hand this Wednesday evening to cheer the Oakland A's to a 10-0 victory over the visiting LA Angels!
September 18, 2018
Alumna Miriam R. L. Petruck (PhD '86) writes to share news of her edited book MetaNet, recently published by John Benjamins. The book contains contributions by Miriam and fellow alumni Karen Sullivan (PhD '07), Elise Stickles (PhD '16), Oana David (PhD '16), Ellen Dodge (PhD '10), and Jisup Hong (PhD '12), along with faculty member Eve Sweetser and emeritus faculty member George Lakoff.
September 12, 2018
Larry Hyman has a new paper out in the latest issue of Language: What tone teaches us about language. The paper reflects his Presidential Address to the LSA in January of this year -- congrats, Larry!
The trio of Claudette Rogers (Karuk Tribe), Dixie Rogers (Karuk Tribe), and Line Mikkelsen (UC Berkeley) have just published a collaborative work entitled "Biography of Julia Starritt". The authors would like to express thanks to Ron Sprouse for help with web implementation!
Taking advantage of the visual possibilities afforded by the new Calques format, we present some recent evidence of Berkeley linguists out and about. Send your photos of linguistics-in-action to Calques!
The Berkeley Crew at LabPhon16: Yao Yao (PhD 2011), Charles Bond Chang (PhD 2010), Grant McGuire (former postdoc), Keith Johnson, Matt Faytak (PhD 2018), Myriam Lapierre, Jeremy Steffman (BA 2016), Hannah Sande (PhD 2017), Alice Shen, Andrew Cheng and Alan Yu (PhD 2003)
The Berkeley Crew at Sinn und Bedeutung 23: Emily Clem, Virginia Dawson, Amy Rose Deal, Peter Jenks, Rachel Rudolph, Ruyue Agnes Bi
Two new doctors in celebratory gear: Jack Merrill (PhD 2018) and Nik Rolle (PhD 2018)
September 7, 2018
The annual meeting of Sinn und Bedeutung, taking place this week in Barcelona, features five presentations by Berkeley students, faculty, and very recent alumni:
- Emily Clem: Attributive adjectives in Tswefap: Vague predicates in a language with degrees
- Virginia Dawson and Amy Rose Deal: Third readings by semantic scope lowering: prolepsis in Tiwa
- Amy Rose Deal and Vera Hohaus: Vague predicates, crisp judgments
- Ruyue Agnes Bi (BA '18) and Peter Jenks : Pronouns, radical pro-drop, and ellipsis in Mandarin
- Rachel Rudolph (Berkeley philosophy): A Closer Look at the Perceptual Source in Copy Raising Constructions
Terry Regier and visiting graduate student Noga Zaslavsky (together with their colleagues) have two new papers out this summer:
- Noga Zaslavsky, Charles Kemp, Terry Regier, and Naftali Tishby (2018). Efficient compression in color naming and its evolution. PNAS. [This paper has an associated movie!]
- Noga Zaslavsky, Charles Kemp, Naftali Tishby, and Terry Regier (2018). Color naming reflects both perceptual structure and communicative need.In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
The paper Color naming reflects both perceptual structure and communicative need received the conference prize for best paper on computational modeling of language. Congrats, Noga and Terry!
Keith Johnson and alumna Sarah Bakst (PhD '17) have a new open access paper out this July (published with financial assistance from the University Library for open access publishing):
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Sarah Bakst, and Keith Johnson (2018) Modeling the effect of palate shape on the articulatory-acoustics mapping, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 144.
This Tuesday's edition of the Daily Cal newspaper contains a letter to the editor by Sharon Inkelas:
August 31, 2018
Continuing the news of the summer: Congrats to third-year grad student Myriam Lapierre on winning the Best Student Paper Award for Poster Presentations at this summer's meeting of LabPhon! Myriam's award-winning poster is entited 'Patterns of nasal coarticulation in Panará' and is joint work with Susan Lin. Facebook users can find a photo of Myriam demonstrating a vowel from the poster in question on the Friends of Berkeley Linguistics facebook group.
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