Awesomeness | Talks and events | Excursions | Festivities
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Awesomeness
Tomorrow is Cal Day(link is external)! Thanks to Martine Alexander, Paula Floro, Ronald Sprouse, and our many students and faculty who are helping with Ask a Linguist(link is external) and the SLUGS table.
Afterwards, fire up your favorite internet machine and check out Cal Linguistics undergraduate Nico Esquenazi's new YouTube channel on language(link is external)! (But taxes are due on Monday, so don't get carried away.)
Talks and events
- Friday, April 15
- 3–5: Rotund Robin(link is external) (Syntax and Semantics Circle(link is external), 1303 Dwinelle)
- 3–5: Rick Kern(link is external) (Berkeley), "Technologies and Literacies in Language Education: Looking Beyond Communication Competence(link is external)" (Berkeley Language Center, B-4 Dwinelle)
- Monday, April 18
- 12–1: Alicia Beckford Wassink(link is external) (University of Washington), "English in the Pacific Northwest: the perception study" (Phonetics and Phonology Forum(link is external), 1303 Dwinelle)
- 2–3: SPREAD (Sociophonetic Research Exchange and Discussion(link is external), 52 Dwinelle)
- 3–4:30: Alicia Beckford Wassink(link is external) (University of Washington), "Reanalysis and conventionalization of a universal phonetic pattern in Washington State English(link is external)" (Linguistics Colloquium, 370 Dwinelle)
- Tuesday, April 19
- 12:30–2: Discussion of summer fieldwork plans and fears (Fieldwork Forum(link is external), 1229 Dwinelle)
- Wednesday, April 20
- 5–6: SLUGS LRAP Living Catalog (Society of Linguistics UndergraduateS, 3401 Dwinelle)
- Friday, April 22
- 3–5: CogNetwork(link is external) & Syntax and Semantics Circle(link is external), joint meeting (1303 Dwinelle)
- Saturday, April 23
- 9am – 9pm: Bay Area Esperanto Workshop (1229 Dwinelle, hosted by the Society of Linguistics UndergraduateS; RSVP(link is external))
- Around the Bay Area
- UC Santa Cruz, Friday, April 15: Sabine Iatridou(link is external) (MIT), "Fake things here and there; evidence from now and then" (UCSC Linguistics Colloquium(link is external))
- Stanford, Friday, April 22: Eric Bakovic(link is external) (UC San Diego), TBA (Stanford Linguistics Colloquium(link is external))
Excursions
On April 7 Julia Nee presented a paper at COLOV 7, the Coloquio sobre Lenguas Otomangues y Vecinas(link is external), in Ciudad de Oaxaca:
- "Exponencia múltiple en el zapoteco de Mitla y su explicación sincrónica"
Welcome back, Julia!
Festivities
This month's Inkling (our social hour) will take place on Wednesday, April 27, 3:30–5 pm. Please mark your calendars! On this occasion we will enjoy a pleasing contest concerning reasons to join the Linguistic Society of America.