Raksit Lau, Wendy López Márquez, Alice Shen and Edwin Ko will present a short course at Splash on Sunday, March 8th.
Splash brings over 400 high school students to Berkeley's campus for "a day of unlimited learning".
Mystery Language! Introduction to Linguistic Analysis
In and around the linguistics department in the next week:
Congratulations to Andrew Cheng, whose paper "Cross-linguistics f0 differences in bilingual speakers of English and Korean" just came out in JASA-Express Letters!
In and around the linguistics department in the next week:
Congrats to Meg Cychosz, first author of another new article just accepted:
Cychosz, M., Erskine, M., Munson, B., & Edwards, J. (to appear). A lexical advantage in four-year-old children's word repetition. Journal of Child Language. [preprint]
Now that 2019 is in the books, congratulations to our 2019 PhD alumni!
Zach O'Hagan sends the following update from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages:
Amy Rose Deal will be in New York City this week to give an NYU colloquium on Interaction, satisfaction, and the PCC.
Gabriella Licata of Romance Linguistics writes to share that her quantitative work on language attitudes towards Genoese and Italian is in the Ligurian news. The article, by Andrea Acqarone of the newspaper Secolo XIX, sums up her results (in Genoese) for a nonlinguistic audience, explaining how gender can condition the way we speak and perceive language.
In and around the linguistics department in the next week:
Congrats to Meg Cychosz, first author of a new paper to appear:
Here is a link to the Open Science Framework ethics repository created for the article.
The proceedings of NELS 49 are now in print, featuring a paper each by Schuyler Laparle and Tessa Scott:
Congrats both!
A new article by Lev Michael and Natalia Chousou‐Polydouri on Computational phylogenetics and the classification of South American languages has just appeared in the journal Language and Linguistics Compass. Congrats Lev and Natalia!
Zach O'Hagan sends the following update from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages:
In and around the linguistics department in the next week:
The program for the upcoming 38th annual meeting of the West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics has just been released, promising the following presentations by current department members and alumni:
Congrats all!
Congrats to first-year student Alexander Elias, whose paper "Are the Central Flores languages really typologically unusual?" is to appear in a book called Austronesian Undressed: How and Why Languages Become Isolating (eds David Gil and Antoinette Schapper), and whose paper "Kabyle Double Consonants: Long or Strong?" will appear in McGill Working Papers in Linguistics!
Congrats to Tessa Scott, whose paper "Two types of Resumptive Pronouns in Swahili" has been accepted for publication in Linguistic Inquiry!
Congrats to Zach O'Hagan, whose paper A Phonological Sketch of Omagua, co-authored with Clare Sandy (PhD 2017), has now been published in the International Journal of American Linguistics!