News

Gašper Beguš will give an invited lecture at ICON 2021: 18th International Conference on Natural Language Processing during a special session on the "Representation of speech, articulatory dynamics, prosody and language in layers." The talk is titled "Interpreting internal representations of deep convolutional neural networks trained on raw speech." More info is available here. Gašper can provide the link to anyone who would like to attend.

Here's the latest from the California Language Archive:

• On Wednesday and Friday of last week, we hosted five Achumawi visitors who consulted linguistic field notes and sound recordings related to Achumawi (Palaihnihan; CA). The visit was the last of those sponsored by the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival this semester.

Congratulations to Isaac Bleaman, whose article "Minority language maintenance and the production-prescription interface: Number agreement in New York Yiddish" has just been published in the Journal of Sociolinguistics. The early view is available here, or contact Isaac for a PDF.

Larry Hyman will give a Zoom Linguistics Colloquium talk at California State University, Fullerton on Friday, December 10, 2:30-3:45 pm. The title of his talk is "Deverbal nominalizations in Runyankore." Click here for the abstract and registration link.

In and around the linguistics department in the next week:

• Linguistics Holiday Potluck - Monday Dec 6 - Ishi Courtyard - 12-1:30pm
• Phorum - Friday Dec 3 - Dwinelle 1303 - 12-1pm
  Zachary O'Hagan (UC Berkeley): Verbal Reduplication in Caquinte.
• Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Friday Dec 3 - Dwinelle 5125 and Zoom - 3-4pm
  Practice LSA talks.
  Please contact Ben Papadopoulos for more information or to be added to the SLaB mailing list.
• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Dec 3 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
  Zachary O'Hagan (UC Berkeley): Caquinte Split Subject Marking.

Congratulations to Julia Nee, who has filed her doctoral dissertation:

"Participatory Action Research in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec Language Revitalization"
Committee: Andrew Garrett, Leanne Hinton (co-chairs), Chris Beier, Beth Piatote

Darya Kavitskaya will have a co-authored poster at the 5th Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology (on Zoom) on December 6, at 7 am PST. Here is the link to the conference site: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/symposium-on-historical-phonology/eshp5/, and to the program: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/symposium-on-historical-phonology/pdf/eshp5-final-prog.pdf

In and around the linguistics department in the next week:

• Fieldwork Forum - Wednesday Dec 1 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3:10-4pm
  Rodrigo Ranero (UCLA): An I-language approach to optional agreement in Tz’utujil.
• Language Revitalization Working Group - Wednesday Dec 1 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 4-5pm
  Ataya Cesspooch (Fort Peck Sioux / Assiniboine / UC Berkeley): Revitalizing Noohahpahgup: healing through language, connecting to land. [flyer]
• Phorum - Friday Dec 3 - Dwinelle 1303 - 12-1pm
  Zachary O'Hagan (UC Berkeley): Verbal Reduplication in Caquinte.
• Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Friday Dec 3 - Dwinelle 5125 and Zoom - 3-4pm
  Practice LSA talks.
  Please contact Ben Papadopoulos for more information or to be added to the SLaB mailing list.
• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Dec 3 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
  Zachary O'Hagan (UC Berkeley): Caquinte Split Subject Marking.

In and around the linguistics department in the next week:

• TABLE: Toward a Better Linguistics Environment - Monday Nov 22 - Zoom and Dwinelle 370 (hybrid) - 3-4:30pm
  Anna Bax (CSU Long Beach): Teaching linguistics for social transformation.
  All who wish to attend, including Berkeley linguists, are required to register in advance, according to your mode of attendance: Zoom registration; in-person registration
  If interested in a 1-on-1 meeting, indicate interest in registration or contact the TABLE organizers.
• Phorum - Friday Nov 19 - Zoom only - 12-1pm
  Caitlin Smith (Johns Hopkins): Learning Derivationally Opaque Patterns in the Gestural Harmony Model.
• Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Friday Nov 19 - Dwinelle 5125 and Zoom - 3-4pm
  Cristiana Lucchetti (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich): Language Attitudes of the Russian-Speaking Diaspora in Israel and Germany. [flyer and abstract]
  This hybrid event will take place both in person and virtually. Cristiana will be presenting in person. Please contact Ben Papadopoulos to be added to the SLaB mailing list.
• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Nov 19 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
  Maksymilian Dąbkowski and Hannah Sande (UC Berkeley): Discontinuous vowel harmony in Guébie focus fronting.
• Zoom Phonology - Monday Nov 22 - Zoom - 10am
  Jasper Talwani (UC Berkeley): Introducing the Parallel Architecture and "Relational Phonology".
  For the Zoom link or to be added to the Zoom Phonology mailing list, contact Karee Garvin.

Here's the latest from the California Language Archive:

• Hannah Sande, with the assistance of Julianne Kapner, has archived a new collection of materials related to Nobiin (Nile-Nubian; Egypt, Sudan), stemming from the Georgetown field methods course she taught in the spring of 2018. The collection consists of sound recordings of elicitation sessions and texts, with accompanying transcriptions, glossing, and translations of sessions. Hannah has also added 32 file bundles of sound recordings of elicitation sessions and texts to her collection related to Guébie (Kru; Côte d'Ivoire) from fieldwork in 2015, 2016, and 2017 (see 049-080). More is forthcoming!