"Remembering Ian Maddieson" published on eScholarship
April 28, 2025
Remembrances from the memorial gathering (February 22, 2025) for Ian Maddieson have been collected into a short booklet and published on eScholarship.
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Linguistics events this week (Apr 25-May 2, 2025)
April 25, 2025
In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:
- Ladino/Judeo-Spanish Working Group - Thursday May 1 - Dwinelle 1303 - 4-5pm
Ora de Echar Lashon (beginner-friendly conversation hour) with discussions of May Day and Ladino poetry across time and space! - Language Revitalization Working Group - Wednesday Apr 30 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4pm
Panel: Revitalization and re-awakening sleeping and near-sleeping languages, with Chelsi Sparti (Wintun), Jonathan Cirelli (Habematolel Pomo), and Shaunie Briggs (Salinan) - Phorum - Friday Apr 25 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
Antón de la Fuente (Stanford): "Ideological Change and Phonological Variation in the Galician of O Grove" - Phorum - Friday May 2 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
Max Kaplan (UC Santa Cruz): "Phonotactics in speech perception: A crosslinguistic comparison of repair in onset clusters" - Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Monday Apr 28 - Dwinelle 5125 and Zoom - 2-3pm
Talk by Verónica Grajeda - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Apr 25 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
Andrew Simpson (USC): "Obligatory object shift in Chinese: Aspect, definiteness, and affectedness" - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday May 2 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
Amy Rose Deal (UC Berkeley): "Case sensitivity reflects case structure: Agreement, extraction, and clitics"
Berkeley linguists at BayPhon
April 24, 2025
BayPhon, taking place at UC Santa Cruz on May 10, will feature the following presentations by Berkeley linguists:
- Rhosean Asmah: "Coronal stop deletion in Megan Thee Stallion's rap and casual speech"
- Maksymilian Dąbkowski: "Missing glottalization in some A'ingae nouns: A diachronic perspective"
- Julianne Kapner: "Varying vowels in Bay Area Armenian"
Boomershine and Johnson publish in Languages
April 22, 2025
Amanda Boomershine (UNC Wilmington) and Keith Johnson published an article entitled "The influence of language experience on speech perception: Heritage Spanish speaker perception of contrastive and allophonic consonants" in a special issue of the journal Languages.
Holliday speaks at CHI 2025
April 21, 2025
Nicole Holliday will be giving a micro-keynote on April 27 at the CHI 2025 Workshop on Speech AI for All: Promoting Accessibility, Fairness, Inclusivity, and Equity in Yokohama, Japan!
Hyman to give commencement address at UCLA
April 21, 2025
Larry Hyman has been invited to be the commencement speaker at the UCLA Linguistics Department Graduation on June 15, 2025. UCLA is also Larry's alma mater.
Linguistics events this week (Apr 18-25, 2025)
April 18, 2025
In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:
- Fieldwork Forum - Wednesday Apr 23 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4pm
Zachary O'Hagan (UC Berkeley): "What was the language of the Tabalosos, Lamas, and Suchiches of Peru? Evidence from a 17th-century Census and Sacramental Records" - Phorum - Friday Apr 18 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
Irene Yi (Stanford): "Axes of Differentiation and Language Ideologies in Mountain vs. Town variation of /l/ alveo-palatalization in Ganguhua" - Phorum - Friday Apr 25 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
Antón de la Fuente (Stanford): "Ideological Change and Phonological Variation in the Galician of O Grove" - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Apr 18 - Dwinelle 1303 - 11am-12:10pm
Practice talks for WCCFL:
- "Perceptual adaptation in Spanish: Implications for vowel-specific factors in the learning of novel accents" (Niko Schwarz)
- "Feature interaction in the Tira agreement complex" (Peter Jenks) - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Apr 18 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
Katherine Johnson (Stanford): "Focus and clefts in Tiriki: Evidence for hyperactivity" - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Apr 25 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
Andrew Simpson (USC): "Obligatory object shift in Chinese: Aspect, definiteness, and affectedness"
Johnson colloquium at Pitt
April 17, 2025
Keith Johnson presented a colloquium talk on "Vowels in the brain" to the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh on Friday, April 11. While there he also served as an outside committee member for an undergrad honors thesis.
Bleaman gives plenary at GLAC 31
April 17, 2025
Isaac L. Bleaman will be one of the plenary speakers at the 31st Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, taking place on May 2-3, 2025, at the University of North Texas. The title of his talk is "Social Dimensions of Variation in Yiddish: Historical Perspectives and New Insights."
Garvin accepts position at OSU
April 15, 2025
Congratulations to our own Karee Garvin (PhD 2021), who has just accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the Ohio State University!