News

Here's the latest from the California Language Archive:

• We've accessioned a small new collection of audio and video recordings from Nicholas Evans's course "Grammar and Social Cognition" at the LSA Linguistic Institute held at Berkeley in 2009. With the assistance of Simeon Floyd, the class collaborated with three speakers of Imbabura Kichwa (Quechuan; Ecuador) -- Gladys, Augusto Oyagata, and Mariana Chuquín -- who collaborated as consultants with the graduate field methods class the following year.
• We've collaborated with the Mineral King Preservation Society and a team of cultural advisors in their curation of a new exhibit "Native Voices" at the Three Rivers Historical Museum in Three Rivers, California. The exhibit, which debuts Saturday, features an audiovisual panel, pictured here courtesy of Lisa Monteiro, with a recording of Cecile Silva speaking in Wukchumni (Yokutsan; California). The recording was made in 1973 by Geoffrey Gamble (PhD 1975).

Congratulations to Terry Regier, who has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Gothenburg.

In and around the linguistics department in the next week:

• SSCircle - Friday, Oct 13 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4pm: Delaney Gomez-Jackson (UC Santa Cruz): "Questions and indefinites in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec"
• Phorum - Friday, Oct 13- Dwinelle 1303 - 4-5pm: AMP 2023 practice talks: Maksymilian Dąbkowski: "Phasal strength in A'ingae classifying subordination", Katie Russell: "Reduplication in Atchan as prosodically conditioned morphological doubling"
• SLaB - Tuesday, Oct 17 - Dwinelle 5125 and Zoom - 3:30-4:30pm: SocioStudyHall
• Language Revitalization Working Group (LRWG) - Wednesday, Oct 18 - Dwinelle 1303 or  Zoom (password: lrwg23) - 3-4pm: Pa Vue (UC Berkeley) "The Affordances and Challenges of Teaching an Endangered Language on Instagram"
• SSCircle - Friday, Oct 20 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4pm: Akshay Aitha (University of Chicago): TBD
• Phorum - Friday, Oct 20 - NO MEETING (AMP)

In and around the linguistics department in the next week:

• SSCircle - Friday, Oct 6 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4pm: Yaqing Cao (UC Santa Cruz): "Modals and negations LF-PF (mis)matches in English and Mandarin"
• Phorum - Friday, Oct 6 - Dwinelle 1303 - 4-5pm: Noah Macey (UC Berkeley): "A dynamic neural model of the interaction between social and lexical influences on speech production: The case of retroflex sibilants in Taiwan Mandarin"
• SLaB- Tuesday, Oct 10 - Dwinelle 5125 and Zoom - 3:30-4:30pm: NWAV Practice Talks, Part 2. Noah Macey: "A dynamic neural model of the interaction between social and lexical influences on speech production: the case of retroflex sibilants in Taiwan Mandarin", Naitian Zhou: "Artificial accents: assessing phonological variation in voice cloning software", Aurora Martinez Kane: "Social perceptions of Traditional New Mexican Spanish paragoge across communities"
• Fieldwork Forum - Wednesday Oct 11 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom (password: fforum) - 3-4:30pm: Hossep Dolatian (Stony Brook): "Documentation of Iranian Armenian: A pandemic grammar"
• SSCircle - Friday, Oct 13 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4pm: Delaney Gomez-Jackson (UC Santa Cruz): "Questions and indefinites in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec"
• Phorum - Friday, Oct 13 - Dwinelle 1303 - 4-5pm: AMP 2023 practice talks: Maksymilian Dąbkowski: "Phasal strength in A'ingae classifying subordination", Katie Russell: "Reduplication in Atchan as prosodically conditioned morphological doubling"

Hannah Sande published an article "Is grammatical tone item-based or process-based?" in Phonology: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952675723000106.

Gašper Beguš gave a virtual invited hall titled Modeling language from raw speech with GANs” at the CHAI: Chat about AI colloquium at the School of Data Science and AI, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Guwahati) on September 13, 2023.