March 30, 2015
Awesomeness | Linguistic Institute | Talks
The Calques office was closed on Friday; hence today's irregular Monday issue. Please send contributions (information and news of departmental interest) to Andrew Garrett(link sends e-mail).
Awesomeness
- Emily Cibelli(link is external) has accepted a post-doctoral research position at Northwestern University with Matt Goldrick(link is external). (To celebrate, Emily is giving lots of talks today.) Congratulations, Emily!
- NEH-NSF Documenting Endangered Languages grants have been announced for three Berkeley linguists (so far):
- Christine Beier, "Documenting Iquito: Text corpus and archiving" (fellowship)
- Lev Michael(link is external), "Documenting Iquito: Lexicon and morphological description" (fellowship)
- Andrew Garrett(link is external), Ira Jacknis(link is external), and Erik Mitchell(link is external): "Linguistic and Ethnographic Sound Recordings from Early Twentieth-Century California: Optical Scanning, Digitization and Access" (research grant)
Linguistic Institute
Registration is now open for the 2015 Linguistic Institute(link is external) (sponsored by the University of Chicago and the Linguistic Society of America), to be held in Chicago, July 6-31. Berkeley-related highlights include:
- Courses taught by Berkeley faculty
- Andrew Garrett(link is external) and Line Mikkelsen(link is external), "The Structure of Karuk(link is external)"
- Larry M. Hyman(link is external), "Word Prosody(link is external)"
- Sharon Inkelas(link is external), "Introduction to Morphophonology(link is external)"
- Darya Kavitskaya(link is external), "Contrast in Phonology(link is external)"
- Susan Lin(link is external), "Articulatory Phonetics(link is external)"
- Lev Michael(link is external), "Amazonian Languages: Major Families, Linguistic Areas, and Grammatical Topics(link is external)"
- Johanna Nichols(link is external), "A Linguistic History of the Western Steppe: Indo-European, its Sisters, and its Neighbors(link is external)"
- Plenary lectures by Berkeley faculty
Talks
- Colloquium(link is external) (M 3-4:30, 370 Dwinelle)
- March 30: Alice Gaby(link is external) (Monash), "This I tell ya, brother: the mutual dependence of kinship and pragmatics"
- CogNetwork(link is external) (M 1–2:30, irregular place1229 Dwinelle)
- March 30: Emily Cibelli(link is external) (UC Berkeley), "Cross-modal speech training in the acquisition of novel phoneme categories"
- Fieldwork Forum(link is external) (Fforum, Th 2–3:30, 1303 Dwinelle)
- April 2: Joel Dunham(link is external) (Concordia), "LingSync: Software for Collaborative Linguistic Fieldwork"
- Historical linguistics forum (*dhworom, F 11–12, 1303 Dwinelle)
- April 3: Alice Gaby(link is external) (Monash), TBA
- Phonetics and Phonology Forum(link is external) (Phorum, M 12–1, 1303 Dwinelle)
- March 30: Emily Cibelli(link is external) (UC Berkeley), "Acquiring novel phoneme categories: Evidence from within-mode and cross-modal learning"
- Sociophonetic Reading Exchange and Discussion(link is external) (SPREAD, F 1-2, 1303 Dwinelle)
- Syntax & Semantics Circle(link is external) (F 3:30–5, 1303 Dwinelle)
- April 3: Clara Sherley-Appel(link is external) (UC Santa Cruz), TBA