Berkeley linguists at the LSA

November 26, 2024

Berkeley linguists are giving 18 presentations, as well as moderating and hosting several sessions, at the LSA and its sister societies, January 9-12, 2025. Congrats, all!

  • Gašper Beguš: 5-minute linguist talk: "Artificial Language Learners"
  • Nicole Holliday, moderator for a session on "Variation and change"

  • Julianne Kapner, session organizer for "Using oral histories for sociolinguistic research"

  • Gašper Beguš, presenter in a 2-day tutorial on "Deep Language Learning: Modeling language from raw speech", with Bruno Ferenc Segedin, Alan Zhou, Sneha Ray Barman, Jingyi Chen

  • Sarah Ertel: "Prevelar raising in eastern Washington English"

  • Nafisa Rashid: "Krio Heritage Speakers and Their Use of Prepositions and Verb Serialization"

  • Nicole Holliday and Sabriya Fisher (Wellesley): "AAE morphosyntactic and prosodic feature use among students: Effects on sociolinguistic awareness and school discipline"

  • Julian Vargo: "Evidence for the Effect of Visual Input on L2-Learner Vowel Production"
  • Anna Knall: "Gender Assignment Strategies in Mixed Noun Phrases: Evidence from Spanish-English Bilinguals in California"

  • Maksymilian Dąbkowski: "Deglottalizing contamination in A'ingae historical derivatives"

  • Alexandra Pfiffner, Lindsay Hatch, & Katherine R. Russell: "Acoustics and Aerodynamics of Nghlwa Implosives"

  • Amber Galvano, Sansan Claude Hien, and Hannah Sande: "Phonetic and phonological patterning of glottalized sonorants in Lobi"

  • Madeleine Oakley (CSU San Marcos) and Hannah Sande: "The acoustic properties of implosives in Guébie (Kru)"

  • Amber Galvano: "The role of sexuality in an intersectional approach to vowel space variation"

  • Isaac Bleaman & Chaya Nove (Brown) – "Sources of linguistic variation in testimony interviews with Holocaust survivors"

  • Julianne Kapner & Maya Ravindranath Abtahian (U. of Rochester): "Oral histories for community-engaged sociolinguistics: insights from the 19th Ward"

  • Julianne Kapner: "The Armenian Language in the Bay Area Project: oral history for diaspora sociolinguistics"
  • Kai Schenck: poster on An Emergent analysis of Yurok initial h"
  • Maksymilian Dąbkowski and Gašper Beguš: poster on "Large language models and linguistic recursion"
  • Gašper Beguš: poster on "CiwaGAN: Informative imitation with articulatory learning"