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!
Congratulations to Anna Bax, who successfully defended her dissertation, "Language Ideology, Linguistic Differentiation, and Language Maintenance in the California Mixtec Diaspora," earlier today.
Congratulations to Lal Zimman (
@lzimman
) for being awarded tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor at
@ucsantabarbara
! This was hard-earned and extremely well-deserved. 🙌🙌🙌
Congratulations to Prof Marianne Mithun for being awarded the Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics by the British Academy for her prolific and profound lifetime achievements in the field.
Congratulations to our newest faculty member, Prof. Kyle Mahowald (
@kmahowald
) who has received funding from the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center to teach research ethics in psycholinguistics.
UCSB Dept of Ling is currently advertising to hire a specialist in language & cognition for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, effective, July 1, 2022. For more information & to apply, please see: . UCSB is an AA/EOE, including disability/vets.
Professor Lal Zimman (
@lzimman
) & graduate student deandre miles-hercules (
@_ravensnest
) will present their joint research on analyzing the vowels of nonbinary speakers as part of the Queer and Trans Sociophonetics Webinar co-hosted by the Linguistic Society of America Committee
SANTA BARBARA SNEAK PEEK. October 6-9, 2020
This year, the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will be offering a special virtual version of its annual Sneak Peek event. The Sneak Peek is intended to create a pathway into UCSB's graduate
Congrats to Lal Zimman
@lzimman
& Joyhanna Yoo Garza
@joy_yoo_garza
for presenting “Linguistic Justice In and Beyond the Classroom: Language, Gender, and Sexuality Scholars on Language Advocacy” on Nov 4 at the Writing and Media Center at Iowa State University.
Kendra Calhoun (
@_kendracalhoun
) presented an invited talk entitled “The Discursive Construction of ‘Straight White Boys’ on Social Media as Social Critique,” Fall speaker series, Department of English, West Chester University.
Congratulations to Anna Bax, who received third place in the Student Abstract Award for the Linguistic Society of America’s 2020 Annual Meeting in New Orleans. The award will be presented at a special ceremony on Sat. Jan. 4, 2020, immediately preceding the Presidential Address.
UCSB Linguistics is now accepting graduate applications for Fall 2020!
For more information or to submit an application, please visit:
The deadline is December 2, 2019. Note that our program no longer requires applicants to submit GRE scores.
Today’s Linguistics Colloquium presents Joan Bybee. She will be giving a talk, “Basic consonants and the evolution of phoneme inventories.” Don’t miss it! 3:30p, South Hall 3605
Kendra Calhoun (
@_kendracalhoun
) and Joy Garza (
@joy_yoo_garza
) both presented their work at an event sponsored by the Linguistics Student Association of California State University, Long Beach.
Gabriel Mendoza (
@ini_tsikantsiji
), a 2020 alum of UCSB’s Department of Linguistics who will be entering the University of Chicago’s graduate program in linguistics this fall, is featured in a recent in-depth radio interview with TEEN CENTRIC
Don't miss our upcoming colloquium on Jan. 21 ,2021 at 3:30p. Jessie Grieser (
@jessgrieser
) of University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will give a talk entitled: “I’ve never known a white person to live on Hill Street:” Racializing Gentrification through Framing and Erasure. 1/6
Graduate student Guillem Belmar (
@GuillemBelmar
) published “Digital Presence and Language Revitalization: Attitudes Towards and Use of Minority Languages on Social Media,”
deandre miles-hercules (
@_ravensnest
) and Jamaal Muwwakkil (
@WordsByJamaal
) have published an article in the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, "Virtue Signaling and the Linguistic Repertoire of Anti-Blackness: or, 'I Would Have Voted for Obama for a Third Term'"
UCSB Grad Recruitment Event Toward a Diverse and Inclusive Linguistics
On November 3, 2022, the Department of Linguistics at UC Santa Barbara will offer a virtual Sneak Peek workshop to support excellent graduate applicants from underrepresented communities
Congratulations to our
@UCSB_Ling
first-generation doctoral student, Jamaal Muwwakkil,
@WordsByJamaal
, for being nominated as the 2020-21 UC student regent!
News:
@UCSB_Ling
congratulates Prof. Anne Charity Hudley on being appointed vice chair (and ultimately chair) of the Council on Planning and Budget, one of the university’s most important Academic Senate committees. We thank her for taking on this crucial (and demanding) role!
Lots of overdue congratulations to UCSB Guillem Belmar (
@GuillemBelmar
) for recent work:
Belmar, Guillem. July 2021. Normalización lingüística: glocalización e ideologías de anonimato en Cataluña. Kartvelology Center at Saint Andrew the first-called Georgian University. (1/)
We are thrilled that our Ph.D alum Andrea Berez-Kroeker and North Hall Endowed Chair Anne Charity Hudley are both recipients of major LSA awards. Congratulations! 🎊
UC Santa Barbara’s Linguistics Department seeks to hire a specialist in psycholinguistics: . Review of applications will begin after November 15, 2019. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
The UCSB Department of Linguistics
@UCSB_Ling
is currently advertising to hire a specialist in syntactic typology for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, effective July 1, 2023. For more information and to apply, please see
Distinguished Professor Bernard Comrie and Raoul Zamponi’s Grammar of Akabea has been published by Oxford University Press:
An e-copy will be available through the university library later this year.
Please join us today at 3:30 for the Linguistics Colloquium. As part of our Sneak Peek event, we will be showcasing five graduate students' 5-minute lightning talks on some element of their current research:
Our own Dr. Laurel Brehm (
@DrLearnasaurus
) will be presenting for our linguistics colloquium this week! Her talk is entitled, "Questions versus answers: Linguistic focus, memory, and visual attention in conversation." Thurs. Feb. 16, 3:30 p.m. South Hall 3605, and on Zoom too
Congratulations to our doctoral students Joyhanna Yoo Garza and deandre miles-hercules for being the recipients of the 2019 Diversity Travel Awards for the upcoming LSA 2019 meeting! Thank you, Committee on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics, for your work:
Graduate student Kendra Calhoun (
@_kendracalhoun
) presented an invited talk, “ ‘Black people online are undefeated’: African American Language, Culture, and Activism on Social Media,” in the Black History Month speaker series, School of English, University of Nottingham
Our own professor Eric W. Campbell's talk at CSU Bakersfield is featured in their campus newspaper! 'Campbell, UC Santa Barbara linguistics professor 'sheds light on syllable structure':
This week's good news from us:
1. Guillem Belmar Viernes (
@GuillemBelmar
) gave an invited talk entitled "Revitalización lingüística: pinceladas desde Europa" [‘Language Revitalization: Broad Strokes from Europe’] at the celebration of International Mother Language Day 1/n
Today! Linguistics Colloquium, 3:30-4:30p via Zoom. "A Roadmap for Inclusion in Linguistics" by Anne H. Charity Hudley, Lal Zimman, Tracy Conner, Kendra Calhoun, Jamaal Muwwakkil, deandre miles-hercules, Aris Keshav, and Joy Garza. Abstract:
Congratulations to UCSB linguists Eric W. Campbell, Guillem Belmar and community interpreters Salustia Ávila, Javier García, Abigail Hernández, José Luis Mendoza, Jeremías Salazar, & Nayra Pacheco Guzmán have been awarded a $10,000 grant
UCSB Ling Professor
@lzimman
was recently honored with the LGBTQ Faculty Engagement Award by the UCSB Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity! 👏👏👏
📄:
Graduate student Guillem Belmar (
@GuillemBelmar
) recently published two articles in a Thematic Dossier on Threatened Languages of the Iberian Peninsula, in the journal Études Romanes de Brno:
Don't miss our upcoming colloquium this Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 3:30p. Ph.D candidate
@joy_yoo_garza
is giving a talk entitled, "Approximations of the feminine: Citations of gender and race in Mexican K-pop counterpublics." 1/8
In today's Linguistics Colloquium at 3:30, Jessi Grieser (
@jessgrieser
) from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is giving a talk entitled:
“I’ve never known a white person to live on Hill Street:”
Racializing Gentrification through Framing and Erasure
1/6
UC Santa Barbara’s Linguistics Department seeks to hire a Visiting Assistant Professor specializing in the linguistics of African America. Deadline: January 18, 2019. . UCSB is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.
The workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL) 24 is officially scheduled for April 8-9, 2022. The call of abstracts is now open! Please see the poster below and check the website for more information:
UCSB Linguistics grad student Kendra Calhoun was recently interviewed on the Vocal Fries podcast about her MA thesis research on anti-hegemonic racial humor on the Vine social media platform:
Linguistics Colloquium TODAY at 3:30p PST: We have three talks featuring our wonderful graduate students (and one faculty member).
1. Lessons from an isolate: Chitimacha diachrony in areal perspective
Daniel W. Hieber (
@dwhieb
)
TODAY at 2:00 p.m. in 3504 South Hall, Jessi Love-Nichols will defend her dissertation, “Towards an Environmental Linguistics: An Analysis of Sociolinguistic Style and Discourses of Conservation among Rural American Hunters and Fishers.” This is a public event — all are welcome!
Our first linguistics colloquium of the quarter is this Thursday!
Pueblo (In)visibilities: Language, Secrecy, and Publicity in the Southwest U.S.
Presented by Erin Debenport of UCLA
Thursday, April 4, 2019
3:30PM, South Hall 3605
Linguistics Colloquium
"Of hotdogs and hot dogs: The contributions of parts and wholes to language processing"
Cassandra Jacobs
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Thursday, 16 January 2020 (tomorrow!)
3:30 South Hall 3605
Graduate student Albert Ventayol-Boada was awarded a Graduate Student Internship Fellowship, which will allow him to be a Linguistics and IT intern with the Language Conservancy in Bloomington, Indiana, this summer. Congratulations, Albert!
Jamaal Muwwakkil (
@WordsByJamaal
) was a guest on the Vocal Fries podcast🍟discussing African American English and racial justice in higher education:
4/5
Our first colloquium of Winter 2023 is this Thursday at 3:30. The colloquium is part of the prospective grad student open house. We have four talks lined up to represent some of the breadth of the department's research interests. Featured are our graduate students & their talks:
Don't miss our upcoming colloquium this Thursday, February 25, 2021, at 3:30p. Anthony Woodbury of UT Austin is giving a talk entitled, "Concerning the conservation of an unusual typological 'genius' in Yupik-Inuit: Toward typology not limited to the quest for universals" 1/7
It's time to open your calendars, folks, for this is a momentous occasion indeed - the 25th annual WAIL! Professor Gabriela Pérez Báez (University of Oregon) will be the keynote presenter of WAIL 25, held on April 14 - 15, 2023, at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Kudos! We're starting the new year with some good news. Graduate student Ryan Lai has published a coauthored article:
Lai, Ryan Ka Yau & Youngah Do. 2020. Large-sample confidence intervals of information-theoretic
measures in linguistics.
TODAY: Come see our own Megan Lukaniec give her doctoral colloquium entitled "Legacy (and the Legacies of) Documentation: Interweaving Linguistics and Language Reclamation"!
All are welcome, and a reception will follow!
📆: 3:30pm, South Hall 3605
📄:
Congratulations to Yi-Yang Cheng, whose abstract for the upcoming
@ICLDC_HI
(International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation) has been named one of the three Most Impactful Paper Awards!
TODAY at 3:30pm! Okan Kubus is giving a talk for the Linguistics Colloquium, “Relativization Strategies in Turkish Sign Language: Understanding the varying strategies.” In South Hall 3605.
Graduating senior Gabriel Mendoza received the UCSB Department of Linguistics Sierra Markee-Winkler Award. This award, established to honor the memory of Sierra Markee-Winkler, a major in our department, recognizes a student who has demonstrated an ability to be
Graduate student CJ Young (
@seajayseajay
) was awarded a two-year Government Scholarship from the Taiwan Ministry of Education to pursue his project "Definiteness and Determiners in Formosan and Philippine Languages."
Nov. 16 deadline for
@UCSB_Ling
applications
As of Fall 2020, the new admissions deadline for UCSB’s graduate program in Linguistics is Monday, November 16. For more information on how to apply, see:
Congratulations to Audrey Lopez for successfully defending her dissertation, "Here Now: Latinx Youth Brokers and the Politics and Possibilities of Ultratranslation”! She will officially become Dr. Audrey Lopez sometime next week.
Congratulations to PhD candidate Danny Hieber on winning Best Student Presentation for his talk ‘Ergativity in Chitimacha’ at the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas!
UCSB will be hosting the 23rd annual Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) conference on May 17 and 18!
They are in need of volunteers for set-up, registration, and food service!
Please contact Joy jyg
@ucsb
.edu if you would like to help.
Today! Please join us for the first Coffee ☕️ Hour of the fall quarter at 3:30-4:30 in South Hall. Kendra Calhoun, Lal Zimman, and Lina Hou will lead a discussion on inclusive communication in academic settings. Bring your questions and ideas!💡
Professor Anne Charity Hudley was interviewed by the “Permission to Speak” podcast on “How to Check Your Bias”: . She was also interviewed for the “Decoder Ring” podcast on Slate about the “Karen” phenomenon:
So, hey, I got a job as an assistant professor of first language acquisition in the Linguistics Department at University of California, Santa Barbara. Guess that means I'm staying in Southern California for a long time.
Graduate student Julia Fine published an article entitled "
#MagicResistance
: Anti-Trump Witchcraft as Register Circulation" in the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. Julia also received both an Interdisciplinary Humanities Dissertation Fellowship and a Humanities
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.
Linguistics Colloquium
3:30, Thursday, 15 October 2020
A Case-Study in Community Needs-Based Research: Sitting Bull College’s Lakota Language Capacity Building Initiative
Tasha Hauff, University of California, Los Angeles
(see abstract in this thread)
Prof. Mahowald and his students will collaborate with Prof. Robbie Kubala (Philosophy, UC Santa Cruz) and his students in examining how to apply ethical principles in real-world research.
a difference-maker, contributing to the linguistics and larger campus community, through volunteerism, activism, and/or research involvement, while maintaining strong academic performance. Gabriel will enter the University of Chicago’s graduate program in Linguistics in the fall.
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
❤️!
Kudos! Congratulations to Guillem Belmar (
@GuillemBelmar
) and Alonso Vasquez for their High Desert Linguistics Society presentation “Tonal alternation as first-person singular marker in Yucunani
#S
àꞌánSàvǐ
#Mixtec
!
Check out this interview with
@UCSB_Ling
Ph.D candidate Anna Bax, focused on her work with local speech-language pathologists who have Mixtec-speaking children as their clients:
Graduate student deandre miles-hercules (
@_ravensnest
) presented an invited guest lecture, “Enter the Intersections: Language and the Raciogendered Body,” to Anthropology 350A, “Anthropology of the Body,” Department of Anthropology, University of Washington.
TODAY! For our Linguistics Colloquium, Ph.D candidate Daniel W. Hieber (
@dwhieb
) will be presenting his talk, "Lexical flexibility: Expanding the empirical coverage." The full abstract can be viewed here:
📣 Only 10 days left to submit abstracts for
#WAIL21
, our annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages! 🐳
@ethnopoetics
is our keynote speaker, & travel scholarships are available! Conf dates: 4/20-4/21, 2018!
Call For Papers & more information:
Graduate student Joy Garza received a UC President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellowship. Joy has also launched her own YouTube channel, “The Ways in Which” (),
Graduate student Guillem Belmar (
@GuillemBelmar
) has published a coauthored paper:
Belmar, Guillem, & Sara Pinho. 2020. Kinsto it Frysk ferstean? Intelligibility of West Frisian for Dutch native speakers. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics.
TODAY: Geneva Becenti (UCSB) will present her colloquium talk "Native American Language Teachers Going Beyond Their Classrooms to Teach Our Native Youths’ Their Heritage Language"!
All are welcome, and a reception will follow!
📆: 3:30pm S.Hall 3605
📄:
upcoming Ling Colloq!
'The Tromsø Recommendations and the ecosystem of linguistic data citation'
Andrea Berez-Kroeker, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
(with Lauren Gawne, La Trobe; and Helene Andreassen, UiT)
Thursday, 4 November 2021 3:30 p.m. PDT