Berkeley linguists are giving 18 presentations, as well as moderating and hosting several sessions, at the LSA(link is external) and its sister societies, January 9-12, 2025. Congrats, all!
- Gašper Beguš(link is external): 5-minute linguist (link is external)talk: "Artificial Language Learners"
- Nicole Holliday(link is external), moderator for a session on "Variation and change"
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Julianne Kapner(link is external), session organizer for "Using oral histories for sociolinguistic research"
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Gašper Beguš(link is external), presenter in a 2-day tutorial on "Deep Language Learning: Modeling language from raw speech", with Bruno Ferenc Segedin, Alan Zhou, Sneha Ray Barman, Jingyi Chen
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Sarah Ertel: "Prevelar raising in eastern Washington English"
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Nafisa Rashid: "Krio Heritage Speakers and Their Use of Prepositions and Verb Serialization"
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Nicole Holliday(link is external) and Sabriya Fisher(link is external) (Wellesley): "AAE morphosyntactic and prosodic feature use among students: Effects on sociolinguistic awareness and school discipline"
- Julian Vargo(link is external): "Evidence for the Effect of Visual Input on L2-Learner Vowel Production"
- Anna Knall(link is external): "Gender Assignment Strategies in Mixed Noun Phrases: Evidence from Spanish-English Bilinguals in California"
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Maksymilian Dąbkowski(link is external): "Deglottalizing contamination in A'ingae historical derivatives"
- Alexandra Pfiffner(link is external), Lindsay Hatch(link is external), & Katherine R. Russell(link is external): "Acoustics and Aerodynamics of Nghlwa Implosives"
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Amber Galvano(link is external), Sansan Claude Hien, and Hannah Sande(link is external): "Phonetic and phonological patterning of glottalized sonorants in Lobi"
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Madeleine Oakley(link is external) (CSU San Marcos) and Hannah Sande(link is external): "The acoustic properties of implosives in Guébie (Kru)"
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Amber Galvano(link is external): "The role of sexuality in an intersectional approach to vowel space variation"
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Isaac Bleaman(link is external) & Chaya Nove(link is external) (Brown) – "Sources of linguistic variation in testimony interviews with Holocaust survivors"
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Julianne Kapner(link is external) & Maya Ravindranath Abtahian(link is external) (U. of Rochester): "Oral histories for community-engaged sociolinguistics: insights from the 19th Ward"
- Julianne Kapner(link is external): "The Armenian Language in the Bay Area Project: oral history for diaspora sociolinguistics"
- Kai Schenck(link is external): poster on An Emergent analysis of Yurok initial h"
- Maksymilian Dąbkowski(link is external) and Gašper Beguš(link is external): poster on "Large language models and linguistic recursion"
- Gašper Beguš(link is external): poster on "CiwaGAN: Informative imitation with articulatory learning"