May 3, 2026
Several Berkeley linguists participated in the Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL 28) at UC Santa Barbara on May 1-2. Madeleine Strait gave a talk titled "Recovering Place Names from the Archive: A Coast Yurok Case Study," Claudia Iron Hawk gave a talk titled "Second Language Learning Methods for the Lakota Language," Tyler Lee-Wynant gave a talk titled "Revitalizing Northern Pomo numbers," and Tzintia Montaño Ramírez moderated a session on "Language Activism." Julia Peck was in attendance as official Berkeley Linguistics cheerleader.