Congrats to newly minted PhD Matt Faytak, who has recently started a post-doc position at UCLA!
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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.
August 24, 2018
The June issue of Language and Speech contains a new paper by third-year graduate student Yevgeniy Melguy:
Congrats, Yevgeniy!
This year's meeting of the World Conference of African Linguistics (WOCAL) starts tomorrow in Rabat, Morocco, and features talks by two Berkeley graduate students:
Tessa Scott: "Obligatory Resumption in Swahili"
Karee Garvin: "Direct Object Placement in Nafaanra Word Order"
Congrats, Tessa and Karee!
Congrats to alumna Molly Babel (PhD 2009, Associate Professor at UBC) on the August 15 birth of her daughter Zelda Esther! Molly writes: "Zelda kept us in a bit of suspense, joining us in the world 13 days late. She measures in at 3420 grams / 7.5 pounds, 49 cm / 19.25 inches, and 100 metric / 100 imperial units of adorable. She's pretty swell!"
A hearty congratulations to the new PhDs awarded in the past few months:
- Nico Baier, PhD!
Anti-Agreement - Auburn Barron-Lutzross, PhD!
Speech Stereotypes of Female Sexuality - Matt Faytak, PhD!
Articulatory uniformity through articulatory reuse: insights from an ultrasound study of Sūzhōu Chinese - Jack Merrill, PhD!
The Historical Origin of Consonant Mutation in the Atlantic Languages - Nicholas Rolle, PhD!
Grammatical tone: Typology and theory - Tammy Stark, PhD!
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!)
March 10, 2017
Calques 4.23 (March 10, 2017)
Newsletter, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley
March 6, 2017
Calques 4.22 (March 6, 2017)
Newsletter, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley
February 24, 2017
Calques 4.21 (February 24, 2017)
Newsletter, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley
February 17, 2017
Calques 4.20 (February 17, 2017)
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Awesomeness | Summer 2017 | Newly Published | Talks and Events
February 10, 2017
Calques 4.19 (February 10, 2017)
Newsletter, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley
True Awesomeness | Talks and Events
Please send information and news of departmental interest to Andrew Garrett.
February 3, 2017
Calques 4.18 (February 3, 2017)
Newsletter, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley
BLS Awesomeness | New Undergraduate Scholarship | Talks and Events
January 27, 2017
Calques 4.17 (January 27, 2017)
Newsletter, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley
January 20, 2017
December 7, 2016
Calques 4.15 (December 7, 2016)
Newsletter, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley
November 28, 2016
Celebrations and Symposia | Talks and Events
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November 18, 2016
Awesomeness|Newly Published|Talks and Events
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November 11, 2016
Veterans Day|Big Give|Talks and Events
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