Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

Russell publishes in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics

February 12, 2025

Congratulations to Katie Russell on the publication of a chapter on "Tone" in the 3rd edition of the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. An Open Access version can be found here.

Robertson Molinaro publishes in Folia Linguistica

February 6, 2025

Congratulations to Allegra Robertson Molinaro on the publication of an article titled "Laryngealized vowels in Yánesha': A phonetic description and subsegmental analysis" in Folia Linguistica! An Open Access version of the article can be found here.

Dąbkowski presents at OCP22

January 30, 2025

Congratulations to Maksymilian Dąbkowski on his upcoming presentation, "The forms and meanings of A’ingae derived nouns," at the 22nd Old-World Conference in Phonology (OCP22) hosted at the University of Amsterdam on February 5-7.

Sande publishes on deletion and epenthesis in Kru languages

January 20, 2025

Congratulations to Hannah Sande, who published a chapter, "Insertion or deletion? CVCV/CCV alternations in Kru languages," in a new volume Epenthesis and beyond: Recent approaches to insertion in phonology and its interfaces with Language Science Press, available here: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/469.

The morphosyntax of verbal agreement in Uab Meto

Tyler Lemon
2024

This dissertation describes and analyzes the morphology and syntax of verbal agreement in Uab Meto, an Austronesian language of Indonesia and Timor-Leste. The introduction provides background on Uab Meto, its speakers, and previous work on the language. Then the dissertation presents analyses of several aspects of Uab Meto grammar. The second chapter analyzes the syntactic structure of Uab Meto verbs and the morphology and allomorphy of elements within it, except agreement. The third chapter analyzes the allomorphy displayed by the language’s verbal agreement prefixes. The fourth chapter...

Dąbkowski publishes LI squib on postlabial rounding

December 12, 2024

Maksymilian Dąbkowski published a squib on "A Q-Theoretic Solution to A’ingae Postlabial Rounding" in Linguistic Inquiry. The paper can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00550. Congrats, Maks!

Berkeley linguists at NWAV

October 31, 2024

There will be six talks by Berkeley linguists at NWAV 52 in Miami, November 7-9, 2024:

Amber Galvano: "Measuring Sibilants in Speech & Sexuality Research: Beyond Spectral Moments" Anna Knall: "Gender Assignment Variation in Spanish-English Mixed Noun Phrases" Nicole Holliday: “'I Don’t Like My Conversations Being Judged By an AI'”: Issues of Bias and Quality in Social Feedback Speech Technology" Julia Peck: "Multilingualism and Gender Assignment:Three Parallel Systems for Loanwords in Istanbul Judeo-Spanish?" Rhosean Asmah: "Coronal Stop Deletion in Megan Thee Stallion's Rap and Speech" Niko Schwarz: "Phonetics of Liquid Neutralization in Isla Margarita, Venezuela"

Congrats, all!

Pfiffner gives colloquium talk

October 15, 2024

Alexandra Pfiffner is giving a colloquium talk at the University of Manitoba on October 18, titled "An audiovisual phonetic analysis of the Mandarin sibilant merger." Congrats!

Several Berkeley linguists publish in Vowel Harmony handbook

October 15, 2024
The Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony (Nancy A. Ritter & Harry van der Hulst, editors), has just appeared in print with several contributions by current and former Berkeley linguists: 2. The role of consonants in vowel harmony, Gunnar Ólafur Hansson (PhD 2001) 13. Phonology that will not harmonize, Larry M. Hyman 39. Psycholinguistic approaches to vowel harmony, Anne Pycha (PhD 2008) and Sara Finley 51. Vowel harmony in non-Bantu Niger-Congo languages, Nicholas Rolle (PhD 2018) and Olanike Ola Ori 68. Umlaut in Germanic languages, Gunnar Ólafur Hansson (PhD 2001) and Richard Wiese https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-vowel-harmony-9780198826804?cc=fr&lang=en&# Congrats, all!

Hyman speaks at CNRS

October 10, 2024
Larry Hyman gave the following talk on October 10, 2024 at the Langage, Langues et Cultures d’Afrique (LLACAN, UMR 8135) research lab of the CNRS, the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) and the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Paris: "...