Linguistics events this week (Sept 11-18, 2026)

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

• Spanish & Portuguese Dept Colloquium - Friday Sept 11 - Dwinelle 5125 - noon
  Miquel Simonet (University of Arizona): Vowel sandhi processes in Catalan and Spanish: Investigating the phonetics-phonology interface
• Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Friday Sept 11 - Dwinelle 5125 and Zoom - 2-3:30 pm. 
  SLaB chat and paper discussion with Miquel Simonet on Simonet et al. (2025). Velar palatalization, phonologization, and sound change – A comparative acoustic study of /k/-fronting in Majorcan Catalan. Journal of Phonetics.
• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Sept 11 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3:10-4:30pm
  Amy Rose Deal and Kang Franco Liu (UC Berkeley): Donkeys, bishops, and the distinction between weak and strong definites
• Phorum - Monday Sept 14 - Dwinelle 1229 - noon-1pm
  Fabián Leonardo Malaver Chaparro (UC Berkeley)
• What African languages can teach us about phonology - Thursday Sept 17 & Friday Sept 18 - 3401 Dwinelle
  See the full program here!
• Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Friday Sept 18 - Dwinelle 5125 and Zoom - 2-3pm. 
  Paper discussion: Caplan, E., Chakraborty, T., & Goldwasser, D. (2026). Splits! Flexible sociocultural linguistic investigation at scale. https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04640