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Congrats to Maksymilian Dąbkowski and @begusgasper on their new @JoLinguistics paper "The blurring history of intervocalic devoicing"!
doi.org/10.1017/S00222267240…
Berkeley Prof. Nicole Holliday among other "grammar geeks" quoted in @nytimes!
nytimes.com/2024/08/10/us/ha…
Berkeley Prof. Nicole Holliday in the news!
news.berkeley.edu/2024/08/06…
Now is a good time to read @UCBerkeley Prof. Nicole Holliday's article on Kamala Harris's speech!
read.dukeupress.edu/american…
.@UCBerkeley PhD student Maksymilian Dąbkowski's paper "The phonology of A'ingae" has been published in Language and Linguistics Compass 13 (2024) e12512.
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
We're thrilled to announce that @mixedlinguist (Nicole Holliday) will be joining the @BerkeleyLing faculty as of July 1, 2024!
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Your gift matters! Donate to @BerkeleyLing today during our 10th annual Big Give to help support our amazing students, faculty, and staff! bit.ly/Cal_Lx #CalBigGive #Cal_Lx
Congrats to @UCBerkeley's Maksymilian Dąbkowski & @begusgasper on their new @glossa_oa paper "Complex diachronies of final nasalization in Austronesian and Dakota"!
doi.org/10.16995/glossa.1077…
Congrats to @UCBerkeley Prof. Amy Rose Deal, whose paper "Interaction, Satisfaction, and the PCC" has appeared in Linguistic Inquiry.
doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00455
Congrats to @UCBerkeley PhD student Maksimilian Dąbkowski, whose paper "Rationale and Precautioning Clauses: Insights from A’ingae" (coauthored with Scott AnderBois) has appeared in Journal of Semantics.
doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffac012
Berkeley Prof. Darya Kavitskaya and alum Alan Yu have coedited a new book, "The Life Cycle of Language: Past, Present, and Future" (OUP), with many contributors from Berkeley Linguistics.
global.oup.com/academic/prod…
Berkeley Linguistics retweeted
Researchers led by UC Berkeley Linguistics Professor @begusgasper uncovered elements of whale vocalizations that are “on many levels analogous to human vowels and diphthongs.” 🐳
Learn more at the link below⬇️
Congratulations to @UCBerkeley Prof. Hannah Sande, recipient of the @LingSocAm 2024 Morris Halle Memorial Award for Faculty Excellence in Phonology!
linguisticsociety.org/conten…
Congratulations to UC Berkeley's Katie Russell (@katier721), recipient of the Linguistic Society of America's 2024 Victoria Fromkin Memorial Prize for Student Excellence in Phonology!
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UC Berkeley linguist Y. R. Chao, born 131 years ago!
“Chao qualified, in no uncertain terms, as a genius.”
— @believermag
Yuen Ren Chao, born #OTD in 1892:
🇨🇳 Was called China’s founder of modern linguistics
🐇 Translated “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” to Chinese, keeping the playful language
🐻 Was a @UCBerkeley professor
ALT At left, Yuen Ren Chao appears in a portrait. At right, a page from the UC Berkeley Library’s 1939 Shanghai edition of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” translated by Chao, is pictured.
.#LSA2024 will feature nine panels, papers & posters with Berkeley presenters!
1. Shweta Akolkar (panelist), "Documenting Languages in the Urban Diaspora: Lessons from a New York Non-Profit"
2. Anna Björklund, "Automatic Intonational Contour Clustering in Patwin"
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6. Sif Voronova-Baker, Alexandra Pfiffner, " “She coughs like a man”: Acoustic cues to gender in non-speech sounds of transgender female voices"
7. Katherine Russell, "Morpheme-specific nasal harmony in Atchan"
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Calling future linguists!
UC Berkeley Linguistics is participating in the Graduate Diversity Admissions Fair from 10-11am on Oct 31. Learn about our department from Profs. Peter Jenks and Lev Michael. Register at the link below!
grad.berkeley.edu/graduate-d…