Gašper Beguš and Alan Zhou (Berkeley Speech and Computation lab alum) published a paper titled "Interpreting Intermediate Convolutional Layers of Generative CNNs Trained on Waveforms" in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. The paper is available through Open Access here: https://doi.org/10.1109/TASLP.2022.3209938
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October 18, 2022
October 14, 2022
In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:
- Fieldwork Forum - Wednesday Oct 19 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom (password: fforum) - 3:10-4pm
Tzintia Montaño Ramírez and Wendy López Márquez (UC Berkeley): "Doing fieldwork as a linguist and a community member: Experiences from a native speaker and a non-native speaker." - Phorum - Friday Oct 14 - Dwinelle 1229 - 3-4:30pm
Annual Meeting on Phonology practice talks (Katie Russell, Gašper Beguš, Maksymilian Dąbkowski) - Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Monday Oct 17 - Dwinelle 5125 and Zoom - 2-3pm
Discussion of Kusters and Lucas 2022. - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Oct 14 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
Caitie Coons (UT Austin): "Toward inclusive linguistic typology: What understudied signed languages contribute." - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Oct 21 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
Justin Royer (UC Berkeley): TBA.
October 13, 2022
Professor Emerita Leanne Hinton will be a keynote speaker at the 16th annual Arizona Linguistics Circle conference (ALC16) at the University of Arizona, Tucson, on October 21-22. In keeping with the conference's theme, "World in Crisis: Linguistics in an ever-changing context," her talk will be titled "From Genocide to Language Revitalization in Native California: Resilience and Reclamation."
Berkeley alumna Professor Rosemary Beam de Azcona (PhD 2004), now at ENAH (National School of Anthropology and History) in Mexico, will also be a keynote speaker, talking on "3000 Years of Crisis and Adaptation: Zapotec in a Changing World."
October 11, 2022
Terry Regier recently gave colloquium presentations at the University of Pennsylvania (September 30) and UC Irvine (October 4).
Congratulations to Yevgeniy Melguy and Keith Johnson, whose article "Perceptual adaptation to novel accent: Phonetic category expansion or category shift?" was published online this week in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (Vol. 152, Issue 4). It may be accessed via this link.
October 10, 2022
Zachary O'Hagan, Emanuele Fabiano (Universidade de Coimbra), and Joshua Homan (Universidad San Francisco de Quito) are the recipients of a grant from the Instituto Riva-Agüero (Lima) for their proposed project Historias cautivas: Estudio de las relaciones interétnicas omurano-kandozi en el río Nucuray a partir de la masacre de la comunidad Triunfo (río Urituyacu). The Instituto awards individual and team-based research grants annually to its members. This award is to Fabiano, Homan, and O'Hagan's research group Amazonía indígena contemporánea: Relaciones interétnicas, lenguas e historia, which carried out fieldwork on the Urituyacu River (Peru) in June of this year.
The 2022-2023 colloquium series continues on Monday, October 24, with a talk by Anne Charity Hudley (Stanford) and Christine Mallinson (UMBC), taking place via Zoom (and live-streamed in Dwinelle 370) from 3:10-5pm. Their talk is entitled "Decolonization and inclusion in linguistics: Setting the framework for a liberatory linguistics," and the abstract is as follows:
Colonial oppression is at the heart of linguistics as a discipline because of the expedient material and intellectual wealth that colonialism has provided. Over the last few years, linguists have begun to take the exclusionary, racist and colonial histories seriously in linguistics and in the study of language more broadly. Charity Hudley, Mallinson, and Bucholtz’s (2020) call for racial justice in linguistics challenged current scholars to increase inclusivity while decolonizing the linguistics departments and programs. Several authors responded with their own reckonings with continued colonial and white supremacist practices within the field, all of which were published together a special issue in Language, the journal of the Linguistic Society of America.
Following the publication of this special issue, Charity Hudley, Mallinson, and Bucholtz presented a call for the development and publication of two volumes on racial justice and inclusion in linguistics: Decolonizing Linguistics and Inclusion in Linguistics (forthcoming, Oxford University Press). In addition, Charity Hudley was invited to co-edit an issue of Dædalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, on the topic of Language and Social Justice.
In this talk, Charity Hudley and Mallinson will present an overview of the three forthcoming volumes and share how this collective work moves us closer to a more liberatory linguistics.
References:
Charity Hudley, A.H., Mallinson, C., & Bucholtz, M. (2020). Toward racial justice in linguistics: Interdisciplinary insights into theorizing race in the discipline and diversifying the profession. Language 96(4), e200-e235. doi:10.1353/lan.2020.0074.
Charity Hudley, A.H., Mallinson, C., & Bucholtz, M. (forthcoming). Decolonizing Linguistics. Oxford University Press.
Charity Hudley, A.H., Mallinson, C., & Bucholtz, M. (forthcoming). Inclusion in Linguistics. Oxford University Press.
Charity Hudley, A.H., & Wolfram, W., guest editors. (forthcoming). Special issue: Language and Social Justice. Dædalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
October 9, 2022
Congratulations to Nik Rolle (PhD 2018), mom Amy, and big brother Jude on the birth of Grace Elisabeth Deverell on October 7.
Here's the latest from the California Language Archive:
- Larry Hyman and Mwambi Mbûûi (Graduate Theological Union) have archived a new collection of materials related to their ongoing collaborative study of Tiania (Bantu; Kenya). The materials are notable for including drafts of several descriptive pieces co-authored by Prof. Hyman and Mr. Mbûûi in the early months of the project (some already published), alongside recordings of sessions conducted on Zoom, typed notes, and database files. Their collaboration began in the fall 2021 Berkeley undergraduate field methods course, which also included Cynthia Zhong (BA 2022), some of whose notes and recordings are also included here.
- Madeline Bossi has added 34 new file bundles to her archival collection Kalenjin Field Materials (see items 2019-26.153 through 2019-26.187). The audio recordings of elicitation sessions and texts cover the period from April through August of this year, including in-situ fieldwork in Kenya in June. Speakers represented in the new items are Lydia Chebet Bett, Sharon Chemtai, Ezra Cheruiyot, Linus Kipkoech, Chepkemoi Ronoh, and Kiplangat Yegon.
October 7, 2022
In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:
- Fieldwork Forum - Wednesday Oct 12 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom (password: fforum) - 3:10-4pm
James Kari (Alaska Fairbanks): "Features of the Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary (to appear in 2023) and Geolinguistic Evidence of Dene/Ahtna Presence at High Water Levels of Glacial Lake Atna." - Language Revitalization Working Group - Wednesday Oct 12 - Dwinelle 370 - 4-5pm
DE Welcome Back and Info night: Snacks and sharing about the Designated Emphasis in Indigenous Language Revitalization; welcoming back DE students, hearing about projects, and encouraging new students to apply. - Phorum - Friday Oct 7 - Dwinelle 1229 - 3-4:30pm
Allegra Robertson (UC Berkeley): "Rough around the edges: Representing root-edge laryngeal features in Yánesha’." - Phorum - Friday Oct 14 - Dwinelle 1229 - 3-4:30pm
Annual Meeting on Phonology practice talks (Katie Russell, Gašper Beguš, Maksymilian Dąbkowski) - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Oct 7 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
Mia Gong (UC Santa Cruz): "A/A' operations at the clausal periphery: Agree, movement, and the interpretation of chains" (work in progress). - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Oct 14 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
Caitie Coons (UT Austin): "Toward inclusive linguistic typology: What understudied signed languages contribute."
October 6, 2022
On Tuesday, October 18, from 3 to 4pm, Linguistics graduate students and faculty will be representing the Berkeley Linguistics graduate program at the annual Graduate Diversity Admissions Fair. Please spread the word and encourage prospective graduate applicants to sign up for the admissions fair. It is entirely on Zoom. If you are a current graduate student and interested in taking part, please email Susanne Gahl or Line Mikkelsen.
October 5, 2022
Congratulations to Mingyu Yuan, who has been accepted into the Graduate Designated Emphasis in Cognitive Science!
October 4, 2022
Affiliated faculty member Mairi McLaughlin just had an article published in a special edition of META that brings together articles on "Exploring New Methods in Quantitative Translation Studies." Mairi's article is called "La traductologie de corpus et la traduction journalistique historique," or "Corpus-based translation studies and historical news translation." Congrats, Mairi!
October 3, 2022
You are invited to a welcome party and information session for the Designated Emphasis in Indigenous Language Revitalization, taking place on Wednesday, October 12, from 4-5pm in Dwinelle 370. For more information, including about the 2022 deadline to apply for the DE, see this flyer.
The Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2022), taking place at UCLA from October 21 to 23, will feature presentations by the following Berkeley linguists:
- Gašper Beguš: "Deep Phonology: How to model phonology with deep learning" [abstract]
- Gašper Beguš and Peter Jurgec (Toronto): "Interactions of tone, stress, quantity, and vowel quality in Žiri Slovenian" [abstract]
- Katherine Russell: "Paraguayan Guaraní reduplication: A novel prosodic analysis" [abstract]
- Maksymilian Dąbkowski: "A'ingae reduplication is phonologically optimizing" [abstract]
- Hannah Sande: "Discontinuous harmony is movement after local phonology" (invited plenary)
Congrats, all!
September 30, 2022
In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:
- Linguistics Department Colloquium - Monday Oct 3 - Dwinelle 370 and Zoom (passcode: lxcolloq) - 3:10-4:30pm
Alexandra Pfiffner (UC Berkeley): "Features, cues, and phonological contrast: A look at plosive voicing in Afrikaans." - Undergraduate thesis practice talks - Thursday Oct 6 - Dwinelle 1303 - 11:10am-12pm
- Jasper Talwani: "Argument indexing in lajltayki- / tsome / Highland Chontal"
- Chelsea Tang: "A description and theoretical analysis of Lobi STAMP morphs" - Fieldwork Forum - Wednesday Oct 5 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom (password: fforum) - 3:10-5pm
Rebecca Jarvis, Julianne Kapner, and Katherine Russell (UC Berkeley): "Shared Experiences: A discussion of collaboration in fieldwork." - Phorum - Friday Sept 30 - Dwinelle 1229 - 3-4:30pm
Noah Hermalin (UC Berkeley): "An introduction to phonographic writing systems." - Phorum - Friday Oct 7 - Dwinelle 1229 - 3-4:30pm
Allegra Robertson (UC Berkeley): "Rough around the edges: Representing root-edge laryngeal features in Yánesha’." - Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Monday Oct 3 - Dwinelle 5125 and Zoom - 2-3pm
Practice NWAV talks:
- Gabriella Licata: "From implicit to explicit bias: Assessing generational attitude changes towards US Spanish translanguaging repertoires"
- Isaac Bleaman and Rhea Kommerell: "Detecting the envelope of variation using computational language models" - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Sept 30 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
Tzintia Montaño Ramírez (UC Berkeley): "Status of the patient subject in the Garifuna passives." - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Oct 7 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
Mia Gong (UC Santa Cruz): TBA.
September 28, 2022
Edwin Ko will be sharing his dissertation work at the American Philosophical Society (APS) Brown Bag series on Tuesday, October 4th from 9-10 am Pacific time (hybrid). His dissertation is provisionally entitled "Inferring the history of the Siouan languages: Phylogeny, chronology, and geography." For the Zoom link to attend this event, contact Edwin Ko.
The following Berkeley linguists will be presenting their research at the 50th annual conference New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV), taking place October 13-15, 2022 in downtown San Jose and hosted by Stanford Linguistics. The full program is available here.
- Isaac L. Bleaman and Rhea Kommerell: "Detecting the envelope of variation using computational language models"
- Aurora Martinez Kane: "Linguistic and social factors influencing variation in Traditional New Mexican Spanish paragoge"
- Gabriella Licata: "From implicit to explicit bias: Assessing generational attitude changes towards US Spanish translanguaging repertoires"
Zachary O'Hagan will be in Berlin next week representing the California Language Archive at the conference "Where Do We Need To Go From Here? Language Documentation and Archiving during the Decade of Indigenous Languages" (October 5-7), co-sponsored by the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) and the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC). The conference is followed by a meeting of the Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archives Network (DELAMAN).
September 27, 2022
On October 3, Gašper Beguš will be giving a colloquium talk at the Yale University Department of Linguistics titled "Deep Phonology: Modeling language from raw acoustic data in a fully unsupervised manner." More information is available here.
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