Calques 4.19

Calques 4.19 (February 10, 2017)

Newsletter, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley

True Awesomeness | Talks and Events

Please send information and news of departmental interest to Andrew Garrett.

True Awesomeness

The editors are thrilled to announce the excellent news (from campus authorities today!) that our colleague Amy Rose Deal will be promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure as of July 1. Congratulations on your promotion and tenure, Amy Rose!

Talks and Events

• Friday, February 10
  • 3–4:30: Round Robin (Syntax & Semantics Circle, 1303 Dwinelle)
  • 3–5: David Gramling (Arizona), "On Dwelling in the Linguacene: From Hypomnesic Monolingualism to Reactionary Multilingualism" (Berkeley Language Center Lecture Series, B-4 Dwinelle Hall)
• Monday, February 13
  • 12–1: Yevgeniy Melguy (Berkeley), "Exploring the Bilingual Phonological Space: Early Bilinguals' Discrimination of Coronal Stop Contrasts" (Phonetics and Phonology Forum, 1303 Dwinelle)
  • 2–3: SPREAD (Sociophonetic Research Exchange and Discussion, 1303 Dwinelle)
• Wednesday, February 15
  • 2–3:30: Ruth Rouvier, Amy Avishay, and Frederica Priyanto (Berkeley), "Language Documentation and Revitalization, and Impacts on Child Learners" (Fieldwork Forum, 1229 Dwinelle)
  • 5–6: SLUgS meeting (Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students, 1229 Dwinelle)
• Thursday, February 16
  • 12:30–2: Discussion of selections from Felsenstein's "Inferring Phylgenies" (*dhworom, 1229 Dwinelle)
• Friday, February 17
  • 3–4:30: TBA (Syntax & Semantics Circle, 1303 Dwinelle)