UCSB Linguistics

and hey-- former grads-- please hit us up if you have news to share about jobs, papers, or other successes. we can only easily follow the academic ones but we love to see everyone succeeding and happy no matter their path!

New paper from Eric W. Campbell: 'Constituency in Zenzontepec Chatino.' Read it here! tinyurl.com/mvene666

FYI: Seeking participants: Help us understand how linguists develop as educators!: We are linguists and researchers from the University of Oregon conducting a research study to understand graduate linguists' development as educators. Our goal is to… dlvr.it/TBMx6p

ALSO, tomorrow (7/12) is the last day to nominate yourself or someone else for the LSA's Arnold Zwicky Award: lsadc.org/arnold%20zwick…

Students doing queer and trans linguistics: There are only a few days left to apply for the LSA's Committee on LGBTQ+ Issues in Linguistics' (NEW!) student travel grant to attend the LSA's Annual Meeting! Apply here by 7/15: lsadc.org/content.asp?ad…

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/livinglanguage…

Have you heard of the LSA Mentoring Award? Instituted in 2019, this award recognizes the work of individuals who, or organizations that, have exhibited a sustained commitment to mentoring linguists. Submit your nomination by the July 12 deadline.lsadc.org/mentoring_awar…

CEDL is awarding students with travel grants to increase the participation of underrepresented ethnoracial minorities in the LSA. Each grant (maximum $1,000) will assist students in traveling to #LSA2025. Submit your grant nominations by July 12. lsadc.org/content.asp?ad…

Two travel grants are available for gender-diverse individuals to attend #LSA2025 in Philadelphia through the COGEL Travel Grant program. Submit your nomination today! ➡️ lsadc.org/content.asp?ad…

My first proceedings paper is now available! Here's the first step of my dissertation research on stress in Yami (Tao) that I presented last week at @SP2024Leiden! isca-archive.org/speechprosody_…

Award Alert: Nominations for the Elizabeth Dayton Award are due July 12. The award will cover #LSA2025 registration, travel, lodging, and per diem costs subject to the earnings of the initial endowment over the prior 12-month period. #LSAAWARD lsadc.org/elizabeth_dayt…

Award Alert: Nominations for the Excellence in Community Linguistics Award are due July 12. This award recognizes the outstanding contributions that members of language communities make for the benefit of their community’s language. lsadc.org/excellence_in_…

Award Alert: Nominations for the Arnold Zwicky Award are due on July 12. This award recognizes the contributions of LGBTQ+ scholars in Linguistics and is named for Arnold Zwicky, the first LGBTQ+ President of the LSA. lsadc.org/arnold%20zwick…

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/zhang2024…

On July 9, Louise McNally, Editor-in-chief of Semantics and Pragmatics, will discuss the article publication process in a webinar. Whether you're a graduate student or faculty member, learning from experienced editors can help you navigate publishing. buff.ly/3XahSfY

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/artic…

New paper by alumn Jazmine Exford 'Racialized Sociolinguistic Processes in the Spanish Learning Journeys of Non-Latinxs in the U.S.' mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/6/…

FYI: Call for contributions: Linguistic intersections of language and gender: Edited volume: Linguistic intersections of language and gender: Of gender bias and gender fairness Editors: Dominic Schmitz, Simon David Stein & Viktoria Schneider “Stop… dlvr.it/T7YyfX

The Linguistic Data Interest Group of @resdatall have a survey asking what educational/general resources linguists need to support Open Science and sharing of linguistics research data. nettskjema.no/a/openlinguist… It took me ~10 minutes! Closes Aug 1st. #lingdata

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.

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 @GuillemBelmar ❤️!