In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:
In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:
Congrats to Berkeley PhD alumni Nicholas Rolle(link is external) (2018) and John T. M. Merrill(link is external) (2018) on the publication of their article "Tone-driven epenthesis in Wamey"(link is external) in Phonology!
The first two volumes of Amazonian languages: An international handbook(link is external) were officially published on January 30. Edited by Patience Epps and Lev Michael, these two volumes present grammatical descriptions of all reasonably well-attested linguistic isolates of the Greater Amazonian region. Volume I(link is external) covers Aikanã to Kandozi-Shapra, and Volume II(link is external) covers Kanoé to Yurakaré. (A chapter in Volume III will summarize what we know about the more poorly-attested isolates and small language families known only from colonial-era materials.)
Linguists currently or formerly affiliated with Berkeley contributed significantly to these volumes:
Introduction (freely available online(link is external)): Patience Epps (UT Austin) and Lev Michael
Aʔɨwa: Christine Beier and Lev Michael
Cholón: Astrid Alexander-Bakkerus (University of Amsterdam) and Kelsey Caitlyn Neely (Endangered Languages Documentation Programme; Berkeley PhD 2019(link is external))
Muniche: Lev Michael, Stephanie Farmer (Berkeley PhD 2015(link is external)), Greg Finley (Meta, Berkeley PhD 2015(link is external)), Karina Sullón Acosta (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos), Christine Beier, Alejandrina Chanchari Icahuate (Munichis, Peru), Donalia Icahuate Baneo (Munichis, Peru), and Melchor Sinti Saita (Munichis, Peru)
Mỹky: Bernat Bardagil (University of Groningen; Berkeley postdoc 2017-2020)
Omurano: Zachary O'Hagan (Berkeley PhD 2020)
Taushiro: Zachary O'Hagan
Warao: Andrés Romero-Figueroa (Universidad Católica Andrés Bello) and Konrad Rybka (University of Leiden; Berkeley postdoc 2015-2018)
In addition, Zachary O'Hagan was the editorial assistant in the first several years of the project.
The next volumes in the series will focus on the small language families of Greater Amazonia, and the final volumes, on the large language families of the region.
In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:
Congratulations to Isaac Bleaman(link is external), Katie Cugno (SF State), and Annie Helms(link is external) on the publication of their article "Medium-shifting and intraspeaker variation in conversational interviews" in Language Variation and Change! The article is available in Open Access here(link is external).
In the last days of 2022, the Diccionario Iquito-Castellano(link is external) was published by Editorial Abya Yala(link is external), a publisher devoted to works related to the Indigenous peoples of Latin America. This dictionary was compiled by Lev Michael and Christine Beier and documents the lexical, cultural, and grammatical knowledge of Jaime Pacaya Inuma, Ema Llona Yareja, Hermenegildo Díaz Cuyasa, and Ligia Inuma Inuma. This edition of the dictionary was prepared with the Spanish language assistance of Jaime Montoya Samamé.
Copies of the dictionary were delivered to the Iquito community of San Antonio last week, and last Friday, the dictionary was presented to the community at a long-anticipated ceremony. Each family present received a copy of the dictionary, and Lev and Chris have been continuing to distribute copies as families that were out of the community at the time drop by the Iquito language center to get their own copies. Photos and further details about the dictionary presentation ceremony are available here(link is external).
Here's the latest from the California Language Archive(link is external):
In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:
Julia Peck was featured in an article on Ladino language revitalization in California Magazine, a publication of the Cal Alumni Association. Check it out here(link is external)!
Isaac Bleaman(link is external) is giving a talk at the Workshop on Language Variation and Change(link is external) at the University of Chicago (virtually) on Friday, January 20, from 1:30 to 3pm Pacific time.
Justin Davidson(link is external) and Hispanic Linguists from UCLA and UC Santa Cruz were awarded a UC Multicampus Research Initiative Grant! The project, entitled "An interdisciplinary approach to the study of Spanish-English bilingualism in California," lasts for at least two years and expands Professor Davidson's Corpus of Bay Area Spanish to now include Spanish-English bilinguals across all of California. Read more about the grant here(link is external)!
Here's the latest from the California Language Archive(link is external):
In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:
The 53rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 53)(link is external), hosted by the University of Göttingen in Germany from January 12 to 14, features presentations by Berkeley linguists:
Congratulations to Schuyler Laparle(link is external), 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.
Congratulations to Raksit Tyler Lau-Preechathammarach, who recently filed his doctoral dissertation:
"From Voice Quality to Tone: Multilingualism in Northeast Thailand and Shifting Cue Weights"
Committee: Susan Lin (co-chair), Andrew Garrett (co-chair), Justin Davidson
Congratulations to Yevgeniy Melguy(link is external), who recently filed his doctoral dissertation:
"Perceptual learning for speech: Mechanisms of phonetic adaptation to an unfamiliar accent"
Committee: Keith Johnson (chair), Frederic Theunissen, Terry Regier, Isaac Bleaman
Congratulations to Amber Galvano(link is external) and co-authors Nicholas Henriksen(link is external) and Shayna Greenley on the publication of their article "Sociophonetic Investigation of the Spanish Alveolar Trill /r/ in Two Canonical-Trill Varieties(link is external)" in the journal Language and Speech.
Hannah Sande(link is external) 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/(link is external). Her talk is titled "Discontinuous harmony is movement after local phonology."