2026 is off to a great start for UCSB Linguistics - many congrats to Prof. Lal Zimman for delivering his momentous and perspicuous keynote talk at the LSA Annual Meeting in New Orleans on Jan. 10!
UCSB Linguistics Ph.D. graduate Dozandri Mendoza recently published a piece in English and Spanish at SAPIENS Magazine: www.sapiens.org/language/pue... . Also available in French and Brazilian Portuguese by secondary translation!
Monty Benesch has also co-authored with Emily Gasser, “An un-Austronesian Austronesian language: Proto-Western Yapen and its lexicon.” in NUSA: Linguistic studies of languages in and around Indonesia 77:78 (2025), p. 39-60.
Cooper Bedin and Monty Benesch have a book chapter coming out:
www.girldadpress.com/scatc
The 28th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages is scheduled for May 2-3, 2026, here at UCSB: www.wailconference.org, with keynote speaker Dr. Telma Can Pixabaj (UNAM, CIMSUR)
Call for Papers : linguistlist.org/issues/36/3396
We congratulate Marissa Morgan on being awarded the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center's Visual, Performing, and Media Arts Award for her project “Kings, Ancestors, Deities, and Diaspora: A Short Documentary of the One-Year Enstoolment Anniversary of the Ahwerewamhene”. Congrats Marissa!
Conference poster for LISO 27, with information included on the text of this post
SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED!
The 27th Language Interaction and Social Organization (LISO) conference will be May 23–24, and the symposium on May 25. Submission deadline is now January 31st!
Conf website: liso.ucsb.edu/conferences
Submissions: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/76886...
Poster for WAIL 27 at UCSB
🚨 Announcing the 27th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL 27)!
May 2-3, 2025
Abstract deadline: December 31, 2024
Abstracts may be submitted in English, Spanish, or Portuguese
See wailconference.org for more
important summer time science, friends
New paper from Eric W. Campbell: 'Constituency in Zenzontepec Chatino.' Read it here! tinyurl.com/mvene666
New paper out by A Ventayol-Boada, J Cano, CH Martínez, EW Campbell-- "Digital free-to-use technologies for language maintenance in California’s Central Coast Ñuu Savi (Mixtec) diaspora", in Living Languages. openpublishing.library.umass.edu/livinglangua...
New paper from Georgia Troiani, John Du Bois, and Andrey Filchenko: "Corpus as a slice of life" ricl.aelinco.es/first-view/3...
We endorse this message from friend-of-the-department William Wang (UCSB Computer Science) and colleagues: "Hire a Linguist!: Learning Endangered Languages
in LLMs with In-Context Linguistic Descriptions" lileicc.github.io/pubs/zhang20...
New paper alert! 'Phrase boundaries lacking word prosody: An articulatory investigation of Seoul Korean'-- by Jiyoung Jang & Argyro Katsika. Now out in JASA! pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...
A map that shows Evansville, Indiana as a starting point, and Nairobi, Kenya as an ending point.
@improvingpsych.bsky.social's #SIPS2024 is bound to be even more invigorating than usual, which is saying a lot - it's my favorite conference!
If you're feeling FOMO, sign up for the online conference before June 12! Registration is only $10-50; there are waivers.
www.improvingpsych.org/SIPS2024/
New paper by alumn Jazmine Exford 'Racialized Sociolinguistic Processes in the Spanish Learning Journeys of Non-Latinxs in the U.S.' www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/...
Final colloquium of the quarter is today! Our own Adrienne Tsikewa will present on 'Making up words: Zunglish and language ideologies', which focuses on Zuni and English mixing from a translanguaging perspective. Today, May 30, at 3:30 in SH3605.
Join me and others for our upcoming Unconference on pedagogy in #phonetics (applicable to #linguistics more broadly, and probably other subjects as well!)
10 June at the University of York
Registration is free but spaces are limited!
www.york.ac.uk/language/new...
Interested in the unmaking of binaries in language & gender? Eric & I would like to invite you to join a collaborative, conversational working session on #RedoingLinguisticWorlds at the Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference krisknisely.com/rlw2 Interest form due 9 June Please share widely!
Tenure stream position in German sociolinguistics at Michigan State University! Language and culture (e.g., applied ling, socioling, social perspectives on SLA). Application review begins 8/25. Position starts 8/16/25. Please share this opportunity widely with your networks! 🐦🐦
Colloquium today, 5/16 at 3:30 in SH3605. Delivered by our own Guillem Belmar Viernes: 'Social justice, intelligibility, and interpretation in the Mixtec diaspora in California'. We're looking forward to it ❤️!
Posting on behalf of the blueskyless Marina Zhukova: 'do you use emoji 😀? do you live in the US🇺🇸 ?if so, please participate in our study of how emoji affect the interpretation of messages and take a short (10 min) survey 🧑💻 bit.ly/3Xnz0ew -- repost please! 🙏'
We're excited to be hosting Dr. Megan Burkhardt-Reed (UCLA) for this week's colloquium-- "The Emergence of Language in Infancy: Development and Evolution". Come learn about 👶💬👋 (babies, speaking, and gestures)! SH 3605, Thursday May 9 at 3:30
Here’s my interview with my local NPR affiliate about ‘Latine’
theshow.kjzz.org/content/1879...
This one's for the linguists AND non-linguists: what would you want to learn from a short fact sheet about endangered languages?
What are some key pieces of information that would be useful in learning, teaching, or advocacy? 🐦🐦
🐳🐋 WAIL26 starts today! Are you as excited about it as we are??
www.wailconference.org
Re-upping this again! I'm now especially looking for Canadians, Australians, Aotearoans, and Irish! But also Brits, Americans, and everyone else, too. Please share to people who aren't on Bluesky, too, if you're able.
it's a colloquium week! tomorrow (Thursday 5/2) Albert Ventayol-Boada will present 'Machine learning methods for grammar description: Insights from Kolyma Yukaghir' SH3605 / 3:30
an image of two vowel plots. Gretchen on the left, Lauren on the right. Both are white background, with blue points for the vowels and green text including the Lingthusiasm logo. The vowels are for common English words representing each possible vowel in English. Gretchen has widely spaced vowels, with ‘lot’ and ‘thought’ close to merged. Lauren has very forward front vowels and much distinct ‘trap’ and ‘bath’ than Gretchen. The words are (approximately front to back): fleece, near, kit, square, goose, cure dress, trap, both, goat, struct, start, foot, palm, cloth, force, lot, thought.
This month we get enthusiastic about what visualizing our vowels tells us about who we are. We commissioned Dr Bethany Gardner to make custom vowel plots for us, like this stylized version of our Wells Lexical Set results.
Check out the episode and see more vowel plots:
lingthusiasm.com/pos...
The recording is online - @meganfigueroa.bsky.social gave an amazing talk at my university and you should go check it out! It's called "Racism in the Field of Language Development: Evidence from the US". The slides and subtitles are available too!
r.jyu.fi/engseminars2...
