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.
Hannah Sande will be giving a plenary talk at the OCP (Old World Conference in Phonology) in January. The conference runs January 25-27 and the conference website is here: https://ocp20.sciencesconf.org/. Her talk is titled "Discontinuous harmony is movement after local phonology."
Congratulations to Amber Galvano and co-authors Nicholas Henriksen and Shayna Greenley on the publication of their article "Sociophonetic Investigation of the Spanish Alveolar Trill /r/ in Two Canonical-Trill Varieties" in the journal Language and Speech.
The second workshop for the NSF-funded South American Nasality Project was held in Berkeley December 12-16 at the Hotel Shattuck Plaza. Eleven participants from nine universities (pictured below) reported on preliminary results from phonetic fieldwork with speakers of ten Amazonian languages, while the project PIs (Faytak, Lapierre, and Michael) led discussions on various aspects of methodology and workflow. Originally slated for December 2020, both fieldwork and the workshop were delayed by two years by the COVID-19 pandemic, so all were enthusiastic to get the project back on track!
Physically present (L to R): Lorena Orjuela (UT Austin), Marina Magalhães (Universidade de Brasilia), Jorge Rosés Labrada (University of Alberta), Thiago Chacon (Universidade de Brasilia), Myriam Lapierre (University of Washington), Kelsey Neely (ELDP), Wilson da Silva (University of Arizona), Matt Faytak (SUNY Buffalo), Wesley dos Santos (UC Berkeley); Projected (L to R): Lev Michael (UC Berkeley), Adam Singerman (Syracuse University)
Here's the latest from the California Language Archive:
In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:
In addition to the practice LSA poster session held last Friday, there will be practice LSA talks on Thursday, December 29, at 2pm on Zoom. For questions, please contact organizers Katie Russell and Maksymilian Dąbkowski.
Zachary O'Hagan is in Austin, Texas this week giving a talk titled "Interaction of Causative and Antipassive in Caquinte" at the 14th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology.
Congratulations to Wesley dos Santos, whose manuscript "Asymmetries among person indexes in Kawahíva" was accepted for publication at the International Journal of American Linguistics! The manuscript can be read here (requires Berkeley credentials).
Lev Michael, Fernando de Carvalho, Thiago Chacon, Konrad Rybka, Andrés Sabogal, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri (PhD Environmental Science 2014), and Gereon Kaiping recently published "Deriving calibrations for Arawakan using archaeological evidence" in Interface Focus.
Isaac Bleaman and Chaya Nove will be giving a research talk at the 54th annual meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, held in Boston, December 18-20. Their talk is titled "The Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe: A new resource for language research and pedagogy," and it is part of a panel on "Jewish Corpus Linguistics and Language Documentation."
Katie Russell gave a talk on Monday titled "The development of subject negation marking across Eastern Kru" at the Third AMC Symposium: Change in syntax and phonology: The same or different? in Edinburgh.
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
Congratulations to the Berkeley linguists who will be presenting at the 2023 meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Denver:
Please let us know if any presentations are missing from this list, so that we can update this story on our departmental website.
Both Michael Arrigo (graduate of RLL's Linguistics track, current lecturer in French) and Mairi McLaughlin (French) just had articles published in the latest edition of Synergies: Pays riverains de la baltique: http://gerflint.fr/Base/Baltique15/baltique15.html (dated 2021 but only just released!)
Michael's article is titled "L’incertitude à double sens: le conditionnel journalistique et la construction de l’objectivité et de la subjectivité dans les textes journalistiques," and Mairi's article, co-authored with Eva Havu, is titled "Le discours rapporté et l’agentivité du journaliste dans les dépêches d’agences de presse."
In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:
In the History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences podcast series, James McElvenny conducted an interview with Andrew Garrett about Alfred Kroeber and the forthcoming book The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and Indigenous California (MIT Press, 2023). Click here for more information.
Dr. Zachary O'Hagan has accepted an academic staff position in the Department of Linguistics as Manager of the California Language Archive, effective January 1, 2023. In that role, Zach will be responsible for collection acquisition and preservation (including cataloging and digitization), managing general operations (including student employees), and access and outreach in California and beyond. Congratulations, Zach!
Congrats to Hannah Sande and Madeleine Oakley, whose article on the perception and phonological patterning of implosives has just been published in Language and Speech! Click here to read it.
