News

Amber Galvano received the COZIL travel grant to support their participation in the LSA 2025 meeting. Congrats!

• Aurora Martinez Kane: "In-community attitudes toward Traditional New Mexican Spanish"

Rebecca Jarvis gave a poster at Sinn und Bedeutung 29 on Tuesday (https://sub29.unime.it/il-convegno/).

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).

This past Wednesday, Amber Galvano and colleagues represented UC Berkeley's D-Lab at the OpenAI Forum's "AI Ethics in Action" virtual event, where they discussed their personal trajectory and experience participating in the Data Science for Social Justice workshop.

Maksymilian Dąbkowski has been awarded the American Philosophical Society's 2024 Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research on "Stress and glottalization across lexical classes in A'ingae (or Cofán; Ecuador)." Congrats, Maks!

Please join us for

The Linguistics Undergraduate Honors Colloquium

Monday, May 1, 2023 at 3:10pm

370 Dwinelle Hall

(Zoom link for remote guests: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/92112030060)

Student Presenters

• Cecilia Elena Bachmann
  Honors Thesis Title: "Language: A Multidimensional Tool in Higher Education between Achievement and Oppression"
  Faculty Advisor: Isaac Bleaman (Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics)
  Second Reader: Justin Davidson (Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
• Andres Sanchez
  Honors Thesis Title: "Accented Speech Recognition Disparities in Digital Voice Assistants: Addressing Spanish-Accented English"
  Faculty Advisor: Terry Regier (Professor, Department of Linguistics)
  Second Reader: Justin Davidson (Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
• Aishwarya Jayadeep
  Honors Thesis Title: "From āṭutan̠ to khalbə: Examining the Heart of Liquid Adaptation in Malayalam’s English and Arabic loans"
  Faculty Advisor: Andrew Garrett (Professor, Department of Linguistics)
  Second Reader: Darya Kavitskaya (Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures)
• Cor Zanda
  Honors Thesis Title: "Parallel Morphological Changes in the Polynesian Thematic Suffixes"
  Faculty Advisor: Andrew Garrett (Professor, Department of Linguistics)
  Readers: Emily Drummond (PhD candidate, Department of Linguistics) and Peter Jenks (Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics)
• Bryce Wallace
  Honors Thesis Title: "The Vaccine Holocaust: The Rhetorical Use of Metaphor in Anti-vax Discourse"
  Faculty Advisor: Eve Sweetser (Professor, Department of Linguistics)
  Second Reader: Lori Dorfman (Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health)
• Calvin Quick
  Honors Thesis Title: "Syntactic Variation in Early Modern Welsh Poetry: An Optimality Theoretic Approach"
  Faculty Advisor: Eve Sweetser (Professor, Department of Linguistics)
  Second Reader: Myriah Williams (Lecturer, Celtic Studies)

Congratulations to Bryce Wallace ('23, Linguistics & English), who has received the prestigious Beinecke Scholarship! Read the story here.

Bryce was also recently named a Haas Scholar. A description of his project, "The Ethics of Literary Scholarship and the Burden of Representation: If and How the Humanities Articulate Otherness," is available here.

Edwin Ko has accepted a three-year (renewable) position as a Lecturer in Linguistics at Yale University, beginning July 1, 2023. He will be teaching courses in historical linguistics and other areas of linguistics, and continuing his research on the Crow language and Siouan comparative linguistics.

Congratulations to Erik Hans Maier, who recently filed his doctoral dissertation:

"A Treebank of the Karuk Language"
Committee: Line Mikkelsen (chair), Peter Jenks, Beth Piatote

Calques is happy to pass along this message from the Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students (SLUgS):

Are you interested in Phonetics? SLUgS invites you to join us in a tour of the PhonLab in the linguistics department, headed by Professor Keith Johnson! Tour the lab and see what phoneticians do in person and see experiments in action. Tour is Nov 17th at 5pm, meeting at Dwinelle 1229!

Congratulations to Eric Wilbanks, whose doctoral dissertation, "The Integration of Social and Acoustic Cues During Speech Perception," was signed, sealed, and delivered last week!