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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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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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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⬇️
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!
“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
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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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