Congratulations to Justin Davidson on receiving the 2025 Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award in recognition of his outstanding commitment to graduate student success.
An interview with Isaac L. Bleaman about Yiddish corpus development was just published in In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. Click here to read it!
Gašper Beguš appeared in Berkeley News with a video explaining his work on AI and language in 101 seconds. Click here to see it!
Congratulations to Isaac L. Bleaman and Chaya R. Nove (Brown University) on the publication of their article "The Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe: Goals, methods, and applications" in Language Documentation & Conservation!
Andrew Garrett's review of James McElvenny's A history of modern linguistics (2024) has appeared in Language 101 (2025), 195-199 (link here).
In and around the Department of Linguistics today and in the week following Spring Break:
Here's the latest from the California Language Archive:
In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:
Last week Amy Rose Deal traveled to Massachusetts to give talks at UMass and in the MIT colloquium series (on case sensitivity in syntax), along with a ling-lunch talk on de re attitude reports.
Congratulations to Nicole Holliday and Paul E. Reed (University of Alabama) on the publication of their article "Gender and racial bias issues in a commercial 'tone of voice' analysis system" in PLoS ONE!