February 20, 2015
Conference travel | News | Talks
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Conference travel
Aloha! Next week's 4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation(link is external) features ten talks by eleven Berkeley faculty and grad students:
- Kari Chew & Katie Keliiaa(link is external), "Indigenous graduate students studying heritage languages at universities: A collaborative autoethnography"
- Erin Donnelly(link is external) & Jorge Beltrán Luna, "Designing and teaching a practical orthography of Nigromante Zapotec"
- Andrew Garrett(link is external) & Line Mikkelsen(link is external), "Documenting, analyzing, and teaching the grammar of direction in Karuk"
- Peter Jenks(link is external), "Elicitation and Documentation of Definiteness & Quantification" (invited master class)
- Jonathan Manker(link is external), "Video documentation of critically endangered languages"
- Lev Michael(link is external), "Elicitation and Documentation of Evidentiality" (invited master class)
- Zachary O'Hagan(link is external), "Language attrition or language change? A case study of an Omagua idiolect"
- Clare Sandy(link is external) & Line Mikkelsen(link is external), "Punctuation is prosody: Making historic transcriptions of Karuk accessible for revitalization and research"
- Katie Sardinha(link is external), "Real and fictional referents in linguistic feldwork"
- Amalia Skilton(link is external), "Three speakers, four dialects: Documenting variation in an endangered Amazonian language"
There will be four practice talks from 10 am – 12 noon today (Friday, Feb. 20) in 1229 Dwinelle: first Sandy & Mikkelsen, then O'Hagan, then Sardinha, then Skilton.
News
New from Will Chang(link is external), Chundra Cathcart(link is external), and coauthors:
- "Ancestry-constrained phylogenetic analysis supports the Indo-European steppe hypothesis(link is external)", Language 91 (2015) 194-244
Berkeley language research in the media:
- Brain's iconic seat of speech goes silent when we actually talk(link is external)
- Indo-European languages tied to herders(link is external)
- Steppe migration rekindles debate on language origin(link is external)
Let the editor know about your new publications and news reports on your work.
Talks
- Berkeley Language Center(link is external) Found in Translation group (F 11-12, B-37 Dwinelle)
- Feb. 20: Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite(link is external) (Oslo), "Local Languages as a Human Right in Education: Comparative Cases from Africa"
- CogNetwork(link is external) (M 1–2:30, B-4 Dwinelle)
- Feb. 23: Barbara Dancygier(link is external) (UBC), "Viewpoint: constructions and discourse"
- Fieldwork Forum(link is external) (Fforum, 1303 Dwinelle)
- Feb. 23 (M 3–4:30): Martin Benjamin (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), "Collecting, linking, and sharing language data using the Kamusi multilingual platform"
- Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences(link is external) (ICBS seminar, F 11–12:30, 5101 Tolman)
- Feb. 20: Barbara Dancygier(link is external) (UBC), "Viewpoint: What can we learn from linguistic and visual data"
- Phonetics and Phonology Forum(link is external) (Phorum, M 12–1, 1303 Dwinelle)
- Feb. 23: Hannah Sande(link is external) (Berkeley), "Weight-dependent infixing reduplication in Amharic"
- Sociophonetic Reading Exchange and Discussion(link is external) (SPREAD, F 1-2, 1303 Dwinelle)
- Spanish and Portugese(link is external) linguistics talks (W 12-1:30, 5125 Dwinelle)
- Feb. 25: Paul O'Neill(link is external) (Sheffield), "Sound change in Andalusian Spanish"
- Syntax & Semantics Circle(link is external) (F 3:30–5)
- Feb. 20 (1229 Dwinelle): Syntax circle round robin