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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…
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Berkeley Prof. Nicole Holliday among other "grammar geeks" quoted in @nytimes! nytimes.com/2024/08/10/us/ha…

Is It Harris’ or Harris’s? Add a Walz, and It’s Even Trickier. (Published 2024)

With Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz running on the same ticket, grammar geeks are in overdrive.

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Berkeley Prof. Nicole Holliday in the news! news.berkeley.edu/2024/08/06…

A UC Berkeley linguist explores what Kamala Harris' voice and speech reveal about her identity -...

"When we talk about Kamala Harris as a modern candidate, she is in some ways embodying all of the ways the country has moved on from the idea that you can only be one thing at once."

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Now is a good time to read @UCBerkeley Prof. Nicole Holliday's article on Kamala Harris's speech! read.dukeupress.edu/american…

Complex Variation in the Construction of a Sociolinguistic Persona: The Case of Vice President...

Over the past few decades, sociolinguists have begun to take greater interest in how public figures, such as politicians, may employ variation at different levels of linguistic structure in the...

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.@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.…

The phonology of A'ingae

A'ingae (or Cofán, ISO 639-3: con) is an indigenous language isolate spoken in northeast Ecuador and southern Colombia. This paper presents the first comprehensive overview of the A'ingae phonology,...

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We're thrilled to announce that @mixedlinguist (Nicole Holliday) will be joining the @BerkeleyLing faculty as of July 1, 2024! nicolerholliday.wordpress.co…

Welcome!

Acting Associate Professor Of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley

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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
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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…

Complex diachronies of final nasalization in Austronesian and Dakota

Final nasalization of voiced stops is phonetically unmotivated (i.e. not a consequence of universal articulatory or perceptual tendencies). As such, final nasalization has been deemed an impossible...

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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

Interaction, Satisfaction, and the PCC

The Person-Case Constraint (PCC) is a family of restrictions on the relative person of the two objects of a ditransitive. PCC effects offer a testing ground for theories of Agree and of syntactic...

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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

Rationale and Precautioning Clauses: Insights from A’ingae

Abstract. We describe and analyze the semantics of rationale and precautioning clauses (i.e. in order to- and lest-clauses) through a detailed case study o

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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…
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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⬇️
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Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language trib.al/399xJGU
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Congratulations to @UCBerkeley Prof. Hannah Sande, recipient of the @LingSocAm 2024 Morris Halle Memorial Award for Faculty Excellence in Phonology! linguisticsociety.org/conten…
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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! linguisticsociety.org/conten…
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UC Berkeley linguist Y. R. Chao, born 131 years ago!
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“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
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.

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.
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.#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" ... 1/
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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" ... 3/
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8. Baichen Du, Alexandra Pfiffner, Keith Johnson, "The role of visible articulatory variation in the Mandarin sibilant contrast and merger" 9. Chelsea Tang, Sansan C. Hien, "STAMP morphs in Lobi: Morphological and Typological Implications" 4/4
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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…
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