DEPARTMENTAL HONORS FOR FALL GRADUATES
Congratulations to Nina Koh, Michael Ward, and Jennifer Wheelock for graduating in Fall 2020 with their B.A.s in Linguistics and receiving departmental honors!
Category: Uncategorized
ARVINDAM AS NEW GRADUATE REP
Congratulations to Vishal Arvindam, who will be the new graduate rep! Thank you Richard Bibbs for serving so effectively during the past year!
HIRAYAMA AT THE LSA 2021
There was one more banana slug that presented at the LSA 2021, Hitomi Hirayama (alumna). She presented a poster on exclamations and their discourse effects in Japanese (apologies from the editor for leaving Himoti out).
EISCHENS PROFILED BY THI
Current linguistics graduate student Ben Eischens was profiled by The Humanities Institute in a discussion about his on-going research and his time as a THI Summer Public Fellow. You can read the full profile here.
EISCHENS AT SSILA
On January 8th, Ben Eischens gave a talk titled, “Speech rate in phonology: Word reduction in San Martín Peras Mixtec” at SSILA‘s annual meeting. You can find the slides from the presentation here.
LALOCO
LaLoCo had their third meeting at 8:45-10:00 am, on Monday, 1/25, at this Zoom link. They continued the discussion of Chapters 3 and 4 of Rao, D., & McMahan, B. (2019). Natural language processing with PyTorch: build intelligent language applications using deep learning.
DONNELLY AT WLMA
Erin Donnelly (UCB) gave a presentation titled, “Verb classes in Northern Zapotec languages”. They met on Monday from 1-2 pm Pacific Time at this Zoom link.