Larry Hyman writes to share the news that his 2019 edited volume Phonological Typology (Hyman & Plank, eds.), along with his 2018 edited volume The Conjoint/Disjoint Alternation in Bantu (van der Wal & Hyman, eds.), is now available in paperback!
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January 11, 2020
Zach O'Hagan sends the following set of updates from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages:
- Amalia Skilton (PhD 2019) added 46 new file bundles to one of her three extant collections on Ticuna (isolate; Brazil, Colombia, Peru), based on her 2019 fieldwork in Cushillococha. These file bundles -- totaling nearly 1TB -- correspond to different (anonymized) children, and typically include daylong audio recordings, as well as audio and video recordings of task-oriented and undirected interactions between children and caregivers.
- Kenneth Hill has archived a new collection of papers focused on Serrano (Uto-Aztecan; California), including field notes (digitized), sound recordings (digitized), 7 boxes of lexical file slips, and 2 boxes of mingograms. The sound recordings are original reel-to-reel tapes dating from his dissertation fieldwork in 1963 and 1964 with speakers Sarah Martin and Louis Marcus, and include word lists, sentence translation, and 20 texts. There are also short sound recordings of Cahuilla, Nahuatl, Cusco Quechua, and Efik. Ken received his PhD in linguistics from UCLA in 1967, with a dissertation titled "A Grammar of the Serrano Language" supervised by William Bright, the first recipient of the PhD in the modern instantiation of this department (1955). Ken was a visiting assistant professor here in 1964-1965, before moving to Michigan, where he supervised Rich Rhodes' PhD dissertation (1976).
The first workshop for the NSF-funded South American Nasality Project (Co-PIs Susan Lin and Lev Michael) was held December 11-15, here in the department. Several participants are pictured below: first row (left to right): Marina Magalhães (U de Brasilia), Lorena Orjuela (UT Austin), Myriam Lapierre (UC Berkeley), Kelsey Neely (UT Austin); second row: Wesley dos Santos (UC Berkeley), Wilson Silva (U of Arizona), Jorge Labrada (U of Alberta), Lev Michael (UC Berkeley), Adam Singerman (U of Chicago), Thiago Chacon (U de Brasilia). Also participating, but not pictured: Susan Lin, Ronald Sprouse, and Paula Floro (all UC Berkeley).
December 13, 2019
• First, in August, we released a new Iquito–Loretano Spanish "students dictionary" and delivered it on paper to the Iquito heritage community. At almost 400 pages, it is a much better resource than its predecessors, and everybody in the community seems very pleased with it! We have also made the PDF available free online, at the Cabeceras Aid Project website.
• Then this week, we submitted a final (we hope) draft of our Iquito–English Dictionary to our publisher, Abya-Yala. This dictionary is about 650 pages and is quasi-encyclopedic in its content, so we are equally happy to have finished it! We'll be back with more news once it is actually published and available for distribution.
Zach O'Hagan sends the following set of updates from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages:
- Timothy Henry-Rodriguez (CSU Fullerton) and his colleagues have archived their new 618-page dictionary of Mitsqanaqan̓ Ventureño (Chumashan; California)! The DEL-funded project (FN-260670-18) builds on the original contributions of speakers Juan de Jesús Justo, Fernando Librado, Alejandro López, José Juan Olivas, Simplicio Pico, José Peregrino Romero, Cecilio Tumamait, and Candelaria Valenzuela, as well as on the work of previous researchers J.P. Harrington, Henry W. Henshaw, and A.L. Pinart.
- Kenny Baclawski has archived audio and video recordings and slides from his defense on December 5.
December 10, 2019
This week, postdoc Bernat Bardagil will be giving a talk called "Quotative strategies in Panará (Jê)" at the Workshop on Speech and Attitude Reports, organized by Leibniz-ZAS and held at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, in Belém (Brazil).
December 7, 2019
This week, Dasha Kavitskaya will be traveling to Scotland to give a plenary talk at the Fourth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology. The title of the 2-part talk is “Conditions on sound change: precepts and propositions”.
This week, Larry Hyman will be traveling to Japan to give an invited talk at the Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody Conference at the National Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics. The title of the talk is Prosodic asymmetries in nominal vs. verbal phrases in Bantu.
December 6, 2019
In and around the linguistics department in the next (RRR) week:
- Syntax and Semantics Circle and Phorum- Friday Dec 6 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
Larry Hyman: Prosodic Asymmetries in Nominal vs. Verbal Phrases in Bantu - Berkeley Language Center Lecture Series - Friday Dec 6 - B-4 Dwinelle Hall - 3-5pm
Presentations of Instructional Development Research Projects, including Dmetri Hayes on Teaching Karuk and Yurok Online: A Story of Pain and Healing -
Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley (SLaB) - Tuesday Dec 10 - Dwinelle 3401 - 3:30-5pmAnnie Helms: Generating Continua in TANDEM-STRAIGHT (This workshop is designed to familiarize linguists with the application TANDEM-STRAIGHT, which can be used to create a continuum from two endpoint audio files. The resulting continua can be used as stimuli for discrimination and identification tasks in speech perception experiments.)
December 5, 2019
Peter Jenks sends a photo of the happy aftermath of Kenny Baclawski's successful dissertation defense yesterday morning:
December 4, 2019
Zach O'Hagan sends the following set of updates from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages:
- Madeline Bossi archived a new collection on Scottish Gaelic (Celtic; Scotland), based on her 2019 fieldwork, including sound recordings of elicitation sessions and texts, field notes, and photographs.
- Zachary O'Hagan added 9 new file bundles to his extant collection on Caquinte (Arawakan; Peru), based on a short field trip in July, including sound recordings of elicitation sessions and video recordings of traditional stories.
- Wesley dos Santos added 25 new file bundles to his extant collection on Kawahiva (Tupí-Guaraní; Brazil), based on fieldwork on three varieties, Juma, Karipuna, and Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau, from 2017 to 2019. The audio and video recordings include elicitation sessions, many texts and conversations, and songs, alongside field notes, photographs, and electroglottagraphy (EGG) work!
- Nicholas Rolle (PhD 2018) archived a new collection on Esan (Edoid; Nigeria), based on many years of research, including in-situ fieldwork, that began in a Toronto field methods course over a decade ago! The collection includes sound recordings of elicitation sessions and texts, field notes (still done with a Livescribe Smartpen), and photographs. He also added 15 new file bundles to an extant collection on Izon (Ijoid; Nigeria).
- Jack Merrill (PhD 2018) archived a new collection on Kobiana (Senegambian; Senegal, Guinea-Bissau), based on fieldwork in Senegal in 2016, including sound recordings of elicitation sessions, field notes, and photographs.
- Steve Parker (SIL International; Dallas International University) archived over 300 pages of original field notes on Chamikuro (Arawakan; Peru) based on fieldwork with some of the last native speakers of the language in 1985, 1987, and 1993.
December 2, 2019
Next week, Amy Rose Deal will be traveling to Göttingen, Germany, to give an invited talk on the mass/count distinction at Number and Plurality: Cross-linguistic Variation in the Nominal Domain.
November 29, 2019
In and around the linguistics department in the next week:
- Dissertation defense - Thursday Dec 5 - Dwinelle 3401 - 9am-noon
Kenny Baclawski: Discourse connectedness: The syntax–discourse structure interface - Fieldwork Forum - Thursday Dec 5 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3:40-5pm
Myriam Lapierre (UC Berkeley): TBA - Syntax and Semantics Circle and Phorum- Friday Dec 6 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
Larry Hyman: Prosodic Asymmetries in Nominal vs. Verbal Phrases in Bantu
November 22, 2019
Congrats to Meg Cychosz and Keith Johnson, whose paper (authors Cychosz, M., Edwards, J., Munson, B., & Johnson, K.) entitled Spectral and temporal measures of coarticulation in child speech will appear next month in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America!
Congrats to alumnus Jack Merrill (PhD '18), who will be joining the Princeton University Program in Linguistics this spring as a Lecturer!
Berkeley SLUgS (Society for Linguistics Undergraduate Students) is hosting its Fourth Annual Linguistics Symposium on Saturday, November 23rd. This year’s symposium features a wide variety of undergraduate speakers presenting on topics ranging from poetry in ASL to child language acquisition, as well as a keynote by Larry Hyman. Coffee & breakfast will be provided; see the schedule here and facebook event here.
The 2019 annual meeting of The Society of Biblical Literature is taking place this weekend in San Diego.
On Monday, Nov 25, from 3:10-5pm, please join us in 370 Dwinelle for Qualifying Paper project presentations by third-year graduate students, followed by light refreshments.
- Schuyler Laparle: Gesture space as interaction space: The spatial separation of topics in discourse
- Martha Schwarz: Competition and allocutive agreement in Kumal
- Edwin Ko: Multiple agreement in Crow
- Tyler Lemon: Metathesis and encliticization in Uab Meto
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