Linguistics events this week (Apr 18-25, 2025)

April 18, 2025

In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:

  • Fieldwork Forum - Wednesday Apr 23 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4pm
    Zachary O'Hagan (UC Berkeley): "What was the language of the Tabalosos, Lamas, and Suchiches of Peru? Evidence from a 17th-century Census and Sacramental Records"
  • Phorum - Friday Apr 18 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
    Irene Yi (Stanford): "Axes of Differentiation and Language Ideologies in Mountain vs. Town variation of /l/ alveo-palatalization in Ganguhua"
  • Phorum - Friday Apr 25 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
    Antón de la Fuente (Stanford): "Ideological Change and Phonological Variation in the Galician of O Grove"
  • Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Apr 18 - Dwinelle 1303 - 11am-12:10pm
    Practice talks for WCCFL:
    - "Perceptual adaptation in Spanish: Implications for vowel-specific factors in the learning of novel accents" (Niko Schwarz)
    - "Feature interaction in the Tira agreement complex" (Peter Jenks)
  • Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Apr 18 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
    Katherine Johnson (Stanford): "Focus and clefts in Tiriki: Evidence for hyperactivity"
  • Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Apr 25 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
    Andrew Simpson (USC): "Obligatory object shift in Chinese: Aspect, definiteness, and affectedness"