October 17, 2025
In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:
- Group in American Indian Languages - Wednesday Oct 22 - O'Hagan residence - 6pm
Chloé Laplantine (Université Paris Cité): "Émile Benveniste's research on North American languages (1952-1953)" - Ladino/Judeo-Spanish Working Group - Tuesday Oct 21 - Dwinelle 1229 and Zoom - 3:40-4:30pm
Presentation by Ester Alkanli, a longtime Berkeley resident and native speaker of Ladino from Istanbul - Language Revitalization Working Group - Wednesday Oct 22 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3:10-4pm
Cuitlahuac Arreola Martinez: "Balancing Identities in Language Work During Autumn" - Phorum - Friday Oct 17 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4:10-5pm
Grace Brown (Stanford): "Gender Identity and Ideology Shape Perceptions of Masculinity in Male Speech" - Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Friday Oct 17 - Dwinelle 5125 - 3-4pm
Becky Everson (UC Berkeley): "Linguistic Elicitation and Style in a Language Documentation Context: Variable Click Production in Tjhauba" - Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Friday Oct 24 - Dwinelle 5125 - 3-4pm
Verónica Grajeda (UC Berkeley): "U.S. Spanish Nasal Neutralization: A Case Study on the production of /njV/ and /ɲV/" - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Oct 17 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3:10-4:30pm
Peter Jenks (UC Berkeley): "Pronouns and personhood in Thai"