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This Wednesday, 02/10, Amanda Rysling will present at the Keio x ICU-LINC Colloquium Series. Start time is 5 p.m. Pacific; abstracts and registration information available here.

Mykel Brinkerhoff and Maya Wax Cavallaro are going to on a panel at the UC Berkeley Zoom Phonology meeting on Wednesday morning, 02/03,  talking about remote data collection (online fieldwork during the pandemic).

Anyone interested in joining is encouraged to e-mail either Mykel or Maya for further information.

R/lab will have their second meeting at 9:00 am on Friday, 02/05, at this Zoom link. They will discuss The featural life of nominals, a recent paper co-authored by Ivy Sichel and Maziar Toosarvandani.

LaLoCo had their fourth meeting at 8:45-10:00 am, on Monday, 02/01, at this Zoom link. They continued the discussion of Chapters 4 of  Rao, D., & McMahan, B. (2019). Natural language processing with PyTorch: build intelligent language applications using deep learning.

Gabriela Caballero (UCSD), Claudia Juárez Chávez, and Michelle Yuan (UCSD) gave a presentation titled, “Tonal and morphosyntactic properties of pronominal enclitics in San Juan Piñas Mixtec”.  They met on Monday, 02/01, from 1-2 pm Pacific Time at this Zoom link.

S/lab had their second meeting at 8:00 am on Tuesday, 02/02, at this Zoom link. Yaqing Cao led a discussion of Villata, S., Rizzi, L., & Franck, J. (2016)

A tentative schedule can be found here.

Linguists at Santa Cruz have been recognized by the local NPR station, KAZU (90.3), for their work with speakers of a Zapotec language living in the Santa Cruz area. The piece mentions the Zapotec Language Project investigation of different aspect of these Zapotec varieties’ grammar (including pronominal system and animacy), supported by a recent National Science Foundation grant received by Ivy Sichel, Maziar Toosarvandani, and Matt Wagers.

The piece highlights Nido de Lenguas, the ongoing collaboration between faculty and students in the department and local non-profit Senderos. Through language classes and other events for the public, Nido de Lenguas aims to raise awareness about the indigenous Oaxacans living across the Monterey Bay area and California and their languages, which include numerous Zapotec, Mixtec, Mixe, and Chatino varieties.