Maksymilian Dąbkowski published a squib on "A Q-Theoretic Solution to A’ingae Postlabial Rounding" in Linguistic Inquiry. The paper can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00550. Congrats, Maks!
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December 12, 2024
November 21, 2024
Katherine Russell's paper on "A unified account of grammatical tone and length in Gã", was just published in the ACAL proceedings volume Pushing the boundaries: Selected papers from the 51-52 Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Congrats!
November 14, 2024
Amber Galvano received the COZIL travel grant to support their participation in the LSA 2025 meeting. Congrats!
October 1, 2024
Two Berkeley linguists presented at the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) this weekend at the University of Texas at San Antonio:
- Aurora Martinez Kane: "In-community attitudes toward Traditional New Mexican Spanish"
September 17, 2024
Rebecca Jarvis gave a poster at Sinn und Bedeutung 29 on Tuesday (https://sub29.unime.it/il-convegno/).
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 27, 2024
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.
August 22, 2024
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!
August 18, 2024
Martha Schwarz filed her dissertation, titled "Realization and Representation of Nepali Laryngeal Contrasts" on August 9. Her committee included Sharon Inkelas, Co-chair; Darya Kavitskaya, Co-chair; Keith Johnson; and Gasper Begus. Congrats, Martha!
September 26, 2023
Congratulations to Glottal Non-Stops superstar Becky Jarvis, who ran the Alameda "5k" (actually ~5.5k) race on Sunday, September 24, 2023 and was the #1 woman (out of 170) and #12 overall (out of all 285 runners).
Amber Galvano and several co-authors from the University of Michigan have just published their article "Perceptions of regional origin and social attributes of phonetic variants used in Iberian Spanish" in the Journal of Linguistic Geography.
September 22, 2023
Maksymilian Dabkowski published a paper on "Two grammars of A’ingae glottalization: A case for Cophonologies by Phase" in NLLT. You can read the paper here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11049-023-09574-5.
Wesley dos Santos published a paper on "Asymmetries among Person Indexes in Kawahíva"in the International Journal of American Linguistics. You can find the paper here: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/726149?fbclid=IwAR3N6v...
April 24, 2023
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)
April 11, 2023
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.
April 10, 2023
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.
January 11, 2023
Congratulations to Schuyler Laparle, who recently filed her doctoral dissertation:
"The shape of discourse: How gesture structures conversation"
Committee: Eve Sweetser (co-chair), Line Mikkelsen (co-chair), Elise Stickles, Dor Abrahamson
Dr. Laparle will be taking up a faculty position at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
Congratulations to Raksit Tyler Lau-Preechathammarach, who recently filed his doctoral dissertation:
"From Voice Quality to Tone: Multilingualism in Northeast Thailand and Shifting Cue Weights"
Committee: Susan Lin (co-chair), Andrew Garrett (co-chair), Justin Davidson
Congratulations to Yevgeniy Melguy, who recently filed his doctoral dissertation:
"Perceptual learning for speech: Mechanisms of phonetic adaptation to an unfamiliar accent"
Committee: Keith Johnson (chair), Frederic Theunissen, Terry Regier, Isaac Bleaman
December 6, 2022
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
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