In and around the linguistics department in the next week:
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Fieldwork Forum: Wednesday April 8 - Zoom link TBA - 4-5:30pm
Ruth Rouvier (UC Berkeley): Exploring emotion in Yurok language reclamation
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Fieldwork Forum: Wednesday April 8 - Zoom link TBA - 4-5:30pm
Ruth Rouvier (UC Berkeley): Exploring emotion in Yurok language reclamation
An Iquito-English Dictionary was recently published by Ediciones Abya Yala and Cabeceras Aid Project, compiled by Lev Michael and Christine Beier on the basis of the linguistic and cultural knowledge of Jaime Pacaya Inuma, Ema Llona Yareja, Hermenegildo Díaz Cuyasa, and Ligia Inuma Inuma. Ronald Sprouse played a key role in preparing the dictionary manuscript by further developing a script originally created by Berkeley grad Greg Finley to generate a LaTeX file from the FLEx XML database file. A blurb is available on the Calques site.
Congratulations to Mairi McLaughlin (Department of French), whose article "La représentation de l'oral dans la Gazette d'Amsterdam à la fin du XVIIIe siècle" (On the representation of spoken language in an historical French-language newspaper) has just appeared in Langages. Read it here!
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Fieldwork Forum: Wednesday April 1 - Zoom link: TBA - 4-5:30pm
Alternative summer arrangements amidst COVID-19
Congrats to Hannah Sande (PhD 2017), Peter Jenks, and Sharon Inkelas, whose article "Cophonologies by Ph(r)ase" has just appeared online in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. Read it here!
Zach O'Hagan sends the following updates from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages:
Alice Shen presented a talk at the CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing, which was entirely online this year. The title of her talk was "Asymmetric processing costs in the auditory comprehension of Mandarin and English bilingual sentences." You can read more about it here.
A paper by recent Berkeley Linguistics post-doc Konrad Rybka and Lev Michael, entitled A privative derivational source for standard negation in Lokono (Arawakan), has appeared in the pages of the Journal of Historical Linguistics. Congrats!
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Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday March 20 - Zoom (link) - 3-4:30pm
Zachary Wellstood (UC Berkeley): Ellipsis ˀinAkɰanón: Preliminary Insights
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Belatedly, welcome Katherine Hilton!
Dr. Katherine Hilton has joined the linguistics department this semester as a temporary lecturer teaching Ling 100 “Introduction to Linguistic Science”. Dr. Hilton earned her PhD in 2018 from Stanford, and now lives in Berkeley. Her dissertation was entitled “What does an interruption sound like?” (committee: Rob Podesva, Penny Eckert, and Meghan Sumner), so she might be paying close attention if she hears you interrupt someone. She has an impressive teaching history at Stanford both as a TA (Phonetics, AAVE, and Language and Society), and as an instructor of record (Intro to Linguistics, Language and Society, and Discourse Structure).
You’ll see her holding busy office hours in Dwinelle 1224.
Welcome Katherine!
Congrats to Edwin Ko, who has just been awarded a Foundation for Endangered Languages grant for his project entitled Development of Northern Pomo language revitalization camps!
Postdoc Bernat Bardagil writes to share that he has just organized the 2nd Watjuho Ja'a School, an intensive language school for the Manoki language, a variety of the isolate language Mỹky. It took place at the village of Cravari, in western Mato Grosso, Brazil.
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Zach O'Hagan sends the following updates from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages:
Congratulations to Virginia Dawson, who has just accepted a tenure-track position in semantics at Western Washington University! Ginny will be joining Western's newest department.
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