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.
Faculty
August 31, 2018
Berkeley Papers in Formal Linguistics is a new online working papers series edited by Line Mikkelsen and Amy Rose Deal. Since launching in June, BPFL has published 7 papers by faculty and students (both graduate and undergraduate), representing work in formal linguistics across a number of subdisciplines. We welcome submissions of new research or work in progress in any area of formal linguistics; please contact the editors for submission details!
- Grammatical tone: Typology and theory
Nicholas R. Rolle - The Semantics of Kwak'wala Object Case
Katherine Ann Sardinha - Contrastive topic in Eastern Cham
Kenneth Baclawski - Spell-out, Chains, and Long Distance Wh-movement in Seereer
Nicholas Baier - Overt versus Zero Pronouns in Mandarin Chinese
Ruyue Bi - Definite Spans and Blocking in Classifier Languages
Peter Jenks - The Syntax of Matsigenka Object-Marking
Zachary O'Hagan
A new book on The Language of Hunter-Gatherers, edited by Rich Rhodes together with Tom Güldemann (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Patrick McConvell (Australian National University), can now be pre-ordered from Cambridge University Press. Congrats, Rich!
- The latest issue of Journal of Linguistics contains a new paper by Larry Hyman: Why underlying representations?
- The latest issue of Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society contains a new paper by Andrew Garrett: New perspectives on Indo-European phylogeny and chronology
August 24, 2018
We're pleased to announce that Jesse Zymet has joined the department as Lecturer in Linguistics, teaching courses in phonology. And we eagerly await the July 2019 arrival of new Assistant Professor Isaac Bleaman, who will be teaching sociolinguistics and computational methods. Welcome, Jesse and Isaac!
Congrats to three faculty colleagues on their recent journal publications:
- The latest issue of Linguistic Inquiry contains a new paper by Peter Jenks: Articulated definiteness without articles
- The latest issue of Journal of Historical Linguistics contains a new paper by Lev Michael and collaborator Thiago Costa Chacon (University of Brasilia): The evolution of subject-verb agreement in Eastern Tukanoan
- The June issue of Neuron contains a new paper by Keith Johnson and collaborators at Berkeley and across the Bay: Encoding of Articulatory Kinematic Trajectories in Human Speech Sensorimotor Cortex (You can also read about this work in Science Daily!)
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