- Aurora Martinez Kane: "In-community attitudes toward Traditional New Mexican Spanish"
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October 1, 2024
September 30, 2024
Several UC Berkeley linguistics faculty and students will present at NELS 55, to be held at Yale on October 17-18, 2024.
- Hannah Sande, plenary talk on "Discontinuous harmony in Guébie: Consequences for cyclic spellout"
- Amy Rose Deal and Zachary O'Hagan, talk on "Person and aspect in Taushiro split ergativity"
- Elango Kumaran (former Berkeley undergraduate linguistics major), talk on "No categorical gang effects"
- Akil Ismael and Jessica Göbel, poster on "The clause-medial vP phase is real: Evidence from Moselle Franconian"
- Maksymilian Dąbkowski, poster on "Morphological boundary glottals in A'ingae: A new argument for [δ]"
- Wesley dos Santos (PhD 2024), poster on "Person hierarchy effects from Φ-agreement at the left periphery in Kawahíva"
Congrats, all!
September 28, 2024
The Script Encoding Initiative led by Anushah Hossain and Deborah Anderson was awarded two grants this summer to continue its work on making writing systems available on digital devices. A four-year grant from the Mellon Foundation will support research on over twenty writing systems that are not yet incorporated in the Unicode Standard, a widely-implemented communication standard. A second two-year grant from the Internet Society Foundation will support science communication projects to demystify SEI’s work on language technologies for public audiences. Visit SEI’s websiteto learn more about their work.
September 26, 2024
In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:
Larry Hyman and Johanna Nichols, together with several co-editors, have published a volume on "Language change for the worse" with Language Science Press. The full citation is below. Congrats!
September 25, 2024
Isaac Bleaman and Rhea Kommerell ('24) published their article "A computational approach to detecting the envelope of variation" in Linguistics Vanguard. Congrats!
organized by Aditi Lahiri (Oxford University), held September 23- 25, 2024 at Ettington Park Hotel. Congrats!
September 24, 2024
Two talks will feature Berkeley linguists at the upcoming workshop on Understanding Obviation at McGill (https://obviationworkshop2024.wordpress.com)
September 23, 2024
Andrew Garrett's book The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and Indigenous California is featured in two new publications:
Mairi McLaughlin gave a keynote presentation called "Variation, varieties, variants: the role of the media" at the 14th Kongress der Frankoromanistikverbands in Passau, Germany on September 26th. Congrats!
Hannah Sande will give a colloquium talk on Discontinuous Harmony in Guébie at the University of Illinois Urban-Champaign on Monday, October 7.
September 19, 2024
September 18, 2024
In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:
- SSCircle – Friday, Sep 20 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
Amy Rose Deal (UC Berkeley) on "Case discrimination, Agree, and the theory of features" - Phorum – Friday, Sep. 20 - 4-5pm
Niko Schwarz-Acosta (UC Berkeley) on “Al Cʉɐntu da Penuchu”: Perceptual Learning of a Vowel Shift in Mexican Spanish - Ladino/Judeo-Spanish Working Group – Monday, Sep. 23 - Dwinelle 1229 and Zoom - 3-4pm
Rachel Bortnick (Ladinokomunita/American Ladino League) on Ladino language revitalization efforts and her own life - LRWG – Wednesday, Sep. 25 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4pm
Beth Piatote (Berkeley) with a workshop/talk on writing and creative expression in language revitalization - SSCircle – Friday, Sep 27 - Dwinelle 1303 -- 3-4:30pm
Maksymilian Dąbkowski (UC Berkeley), Title TBA - Phorum – Friday, Sep. 27 - Zoom - 4-5pm
Alexia Hernandez (Stanford) on "The role of experience on the cognitive underpinnings of linguistic bias: An interdisciplinary investigation of Miami-based Cuban American speech"
Gašper Beguš is giving a talk at the linguistics department at Harvard University on Friday, September 20 (https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/blog/week-sept-16). The title of the talk is "Building realistic models of language with deep learning". Congrats!
September 17, 2024
Rebecca Jarvis gave a poster at Sinn und Bedeutung 29 on Tuesday (https://sub29.unime.it/il-convegno/).
September 16, 2024
September 12, 2024
Zachary O'Hagan was in Lyon, France earlier this week participating in the workshop Classifiers in the Arawakan Languages at the Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage. He presented on "Distinguishing Classifiers from Inalienable Nouns in Caquinte".
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