Linguistics events this week (Apr 29-May 6, 2022)

April 29, 2022

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

  • Linguistics Undergraduate Honors Colloquium 2022 - Monday May 2 - Dwinelle 370 and Zoom - 3:15pm
    - Cynthia Zhong: "Tonal Variations on 'bu' in Mandarin-English Code-Switching"
    - Cooper Bedin: "(A Computational Approach to) Acoustic Cues of Queer Speech"
    - Jenkin Leung: "Variation in Hong Kong Cantonese Nasal Onsets"
    - Margaret Asperheim: "One language or five thousand: A linguistic categorization analysis of Library of Congress classification and language resources"
  • Belén Flores's Retirement Tea Party - Friday May 6 - Ishi Courtyard - 2-4pm
  • Phorum - Friday Apr 29
    Meeting canceled.
  • Phorum - Friday May 6 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 1-2pm
    Wesley dos Santos and Hannah Sande (UC Berkeley): Apparent partial reduplication in Kawahíva is total reduplication of a particular spell-out domain.
  • Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Apr 29 - 1303 Dwinelle and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
    Carlos Cisnernos (UC Berkeley) and Anqi Zhang (Nanjing University): The non-scalar, epistemic nature of polarity sensitive wh-indefinites in Mandarin.
  • Zoom Phonology - Friday Apr 29 - Zoom - 9am
    Katherine Russell (UC Berkeley): Variation in two Paraguayan Guaraní nasalization patterns.
    For the Zoom link or to be added to the Zoom Phonology mailing list, contact Karee Garvin.