Isaac L. Bleaman will be giving a research talk for the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures at the University of Toronto on Thursday, April 10. The title of his talk is "Preserving the Past, Forging the Future: Digital Voices in Yiddish Studies." He will also be leading a workshop for Yiddish instructors on Friday, April 11 titled "אױספּאַקן דעם טערמינאָלאָגישן באַגאַזש: מכּוח ייִדישע װערבן" (When Less Is More: On Yiddish Grammatical Terminology).
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April 3, 2025
Congratulations to Amy Rose Deal and Justin Royer (Université de Montréal), whose article "Mayan animacy hierarchy effects and the dynamics of Agree" has just been published online in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory!
April 2, 2025
Calques is saddened to report the passing of Berkeley Linguistics PhD alumna Miriam R. L. Petruck.
Dr. Petruck was active in the linguistics research community until her passing. She recently received a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award to create a FrameNet-inspired database of structured information about the experiences of Holocaust survivors.
April 1, 2025
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!
March 31, 2025
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).
March 21, 2025
In and around the Department of Linguistics today and in the week following Spring Break:
- Phorum - Friday Mar 21 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
Talk by Rhosean Asmah (UC Berkeley) - Phorum - Friday Apr 4 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
John Harris (University College London): "Gauging segmental prominence" - Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Monday Mar 31 - Dwinelle 5125 and Zoom - 2-3pm
Talk by Sarah Ertel (UC Berkeley) - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Mar 21 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
Masoud Jasbi (UC Davis): "Definiteness and plurality in a language with no definite determiner and two types of plurals" - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Apr 4 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
Talk by Jasper Jian (Stanford)
March 17, 2025
Here's the latest from the California Language Archive:
- Thanks to the efforts of Shweta Akolkar and Wendy Costa, we've accessioned a second series to the Heather Hardy Collection of Tolkapaya Yavapai Language Materials, consisting of 23 cassette recordings of Molly Fasthorse (1910-2000). Yavapai is a Yuman language of Arizona. The recordings span collaborations at UCLA in the late 1970s and at the University of North Texas in 1981.
March 14, 2025
In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:
- Linguistics Department Colloquium - Monday Mar 17 - Dwinelle 370 and Zoom (passcode: lx-colloq) - 3:10-4:30pm
Kathryn Davidson (Harvard): "Information Structure Insights from Sign Language Anaphora" - Fieldwork Forum - Wednesday Mar 19 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4pm
Line Mikkelsen (UC Berkeley): "Some challenges of establishing focus structure through elicitation" - Phorum - Friday Mar 14 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
Cooper Bedin (UC Santa Barbara): "Towards participant-driven analyses in sociolinguistic studies of gender and sexuality" - Phorum - Friday Mar 21 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
Talk by Rhosean Asmah (UC Berkeley) - Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Monday Mar 17 - Dwinelle 5125 and Zoom - 2-3pm
Discussion of Hall-Lew 2024 - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Mar 14 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
Line Mikkelsen (UC Berkeley): "Cross-clausal movement and its limits" - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Mar 21 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
Talk by Masoud Jasbi (UC Davis)
March 13, 2025
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.
March 11, 2025
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!
March 10, 2025
The 2024-2025 colloquium series continues on Monday, March 17, with a talk by Kathryn Davidson (Harvard), taking place in Dwinelle 370 and on Zoom (passcode: lx-colloq) from 3:10-4:30pm. Her talk is entitled "Information Structure Insights from Sign Language Anaphora." The abstract is as follows:
Notions of topic and focus have been well-studied in sign languages, which - like many spoken languages - tend to have word orders highly influenced by information structural considerations, along with perhaps some modality-specific considerations provided by suprasegmental "non-manuals" and other simultaneous expression, the tight integration of iconic depiction into the grammatical structure, etc. The use of three-dimensional signing space for tracking referents across a discourse is often considered to be another modality-specific feature, bearing on questions about the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic representation of anaphora in language more generally and how anaphoricity relates to other notions like definiteness, givenness, and contrast. This talk will provide new empirical arguments from sign languages for how the expression of contrast falls out as a consequence of marking (explicit and implicit) discourse familiarity and non-identity and what this means for how we should think about the relationship between anaphoricity, alternatives, and information structure.
Here's the latest from the California Language Archive:
- We've digitized Jaime de Angulo's manuscript The Clear Lake Dialect of the Pomo Language.
- In the last several weeks, we've hosted State Secretary of Tribal Affairs Christina Snider-Ashtari and colleagues, Native high schoolers from the Ukiah region, who were able to consult the notes and recordings especially of past Berkeley students and alums Abraham Halpern, Robert Oswalt (PhD 1961), and Eero Vihman on Northern Pomo (Pomoan; CA), and Tribal visits representing Washo (isolate; CA, NV), Northern Sierra and Plains Miwok (Miwokan; CA), and Tachi (Yokutsan; CA), these visits sponsored by the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival (AICLS).
March 7, 2025
In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:
- Ladino/Judeo-Spanish Working Group - Thursday Mar 13 - Dwinelle 1303 - 4-5pm
Ora de Echar Lashon (beginner-friendly conversation hour) with special guest Nesi Altaras, Ladino language activist, heritage speaker, and PhD student at Stanford - Language Revitalization Working Group - Wednesday Mar 12 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4pm
Peer Support & Troubleshooting Workshop (Bring your LR project puzzles, updates, and questions! Open to everyone: faculty, students, and beyond) - Phorum - Friday Mar 14 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
Cooper Bedin (UC Santa Barbara): "Towards participant-driven analyses in sociolinguistic studies of gender and sexuality" - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Mar 7 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
Ahmad Jabbar (Stanford): "Conditional rhetorical questions" - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Mar 14 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
Line Mikkelsen (UC Berkeley): "Cross-clausal movement and its limits"
March 6, 2025
Congratulations to Tyler Lee-Wynant, who will be giving two talks about his language revitalization work on Northern Pomo at the 9th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation this weekend:
- 3/8 - "Language ideologies and language attitudes in a Northern Pomo high school class" (co-presenting with Catherine O'Connor, Boston University)
- 3/9 - "Set-up of an open-access and community-independent online language course for a reawakening language: The case of Northern Pomo"
March 5, 2025
Several Berkeley linguists will present at an upcoming workshop on Exploring Boundaries: Phonological domains in the languages of the world in Tromsø, Norway on March 13-14, 2025.
- Maksymilian Dąbkowski and Katherine Russell will give a talk entitled "Wordhood at the heart of Paraguayan Guaraní morphology"
- Hannah Sande will give a talk entitled "Identifying domains in Lobi: Downstep, tone spreading, and harmony"
- Kai Joseph Schenck will present a poster on "Morphological domains in Yurok rhotic vowel harmony"
Hannah Sande will present a talk on "Discontinuous harmony and cyclicity in Guébie" in the Linguistics Department at UiT The Arctic University of Norway on Wednesday, March 12, 2025.
March 3, 2025
Congratulations to Yevgeniy Melguy (PhD 2022) and Keith Johnson, whose article "What are you sinking about? Experience with unfamiliar accent produces both inhibition and facilitation during lexical processing" was published this week in the Journal of Phonetics.
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