Publications & Talks

Julia Nee, Genevieve Macfarlane Smith, Alicia Sheares, and Ishita Rustagi. 2021. Advancing social justice through linguistic justice: Strategies for building equity fluent NLP technology. In Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO ’21), October 5-9, 2021, NY, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. [pdf]

Julia Nee. 2021. Understanding the effects of language revitalization workshops using long-format speech environment recordings. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 6(1): 213-227. [pdf]

Julia Nee and Emily Remirez. 2021. Engaging with linguistic justice through objectives-based learning and independent research. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America. [pdf]

Genevieve Smith, Alicia Sheares, Ishita Rustagi, and Julia Nee. 2021. Responsible Language in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning: A Guide for Current & Future Business Leaders. Report published by the Center for Equity, Gender, and Leadership at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. [report & tools]

Genevieve Smith, Alicia Sheares, Ishita Rustagi, and Julia Nee. 2021. Advancing Language for Racial Equity and Inclusion: An Equity Fluent Leadership Playbook. Report published by the Center for Equity, Gender, and Leadership at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. [report & tools]

Julia Nee. 2020. Creating books for use in language revitalization classrooms: Considerations and outcomes. L2 Journal 12(1). [pdf]

Isabel Lazo Martínez, Efraín Lazo Pérez, Trinidad Martínez Soza, Julia Nee, and Celine Rezvani. Beniit kon xpeijigan: Te libr ka didxza kon dixtil le’enin te rului’in dnumbr [Benita and her balloons: A book written in Zapotec and Spanish that teaches numbers]. Publications of the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. [pdf]

Julia Nee. 2018. Comparatives in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec. In Proceedings of SULA 10. [pre-print pdf]

Julia Nee, Tyler Lau, Emily Remirez, Margaret Cychosz, and Dmetri Hayes (eds). 2018. Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 43rd Annual Meeting. Berkeley Linguistics Society. [pdf]

Amy Rose Deal and Julia Nee. 2017. Bare nouns, number, and definiteness in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec. In Chris Cummins, Nikolas Gisborne, Caroline Heycock, Brian Rabern, Hannah Rohde, and Robert Truswell (eds.), Proceedings from Sinn und Bedeutung 21. [pdf]

"Advancing social justice through linguistic justice: Strategies for building equity fluent NLP technology." With Genevieve Macfarlane Smith, Alicia Sheares, and Ishita Rustagi. At Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization, October 7, 2021. [recorded talk]

"Measuring the effects of language revitalization camps using long-format audio recordings." Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. January 9, 2021.

"Fostering learner investment through objectives-based grading and structured independent research projects." With Emily Remirez. Poster at Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. January 9, 2021. [digital poster]

"Emergent multilingual identities among children learning Zapotec." With Rosita Jiménez Lorenzo. The Seventh International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation. March 4, 2021. [recorded talk]

"Assessing learning goals in remote instruction: A panel discussion." Invited panelist. Berkeley Academic Innovation Studio. [recorded talk]

"Web-based stories and texts promote learning engagement in language revitalization." With Brady Dailey, Ethan Rimdzius, Edwin Ko, Jimmy Sbordone, Erica Carson, Jr., and Catherine O'Connor. Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, New Orleans, Louisiana. January 5, 2019.

"Blended language learning in a language revitalization context." With Edwin Ko, Catherine O'Connor, and Erica Carson Jr. Paper presentation at Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Davis, California. July 13, 2019. [slides]

"Approaches to developing language revitalization materials: Using linguistic elicitation tools and student-generated materials in Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico." Talk given at the American Indian Seminar. University of California, Los Angeles. March 16, 2019. [slides]

“Using Learner-Generated Work as Source Materials for a Language Revitalization Course.” Talk given at Found in Translation. University of California, Berkeley. March 8, 2019. [slides]

“’Prearchiving’ with the California Language Archive: Incremental Archiving and Early Ongoing Curation.” With Andrew Garrett, Edwin Ko, Zachary O’Hagan, and Ronald Sprouse. Talk given at The Sixth International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation. University of Hawai’i at Manoa. March 3, 2019. [slides]

“Communication Based Instruction and Evaluation of Language Revitalization.” Talk given at The Sixth International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation. University of Hawai’i at Manoa. March 2, 2019. [slides & audio recording]

"Zapotec Language Revitalization: What can be accomplished with a two-week langauge course?" Talk given at the Berkeley Language Center Lecture Series. University of California, Berkeley. November 30, 2018. [slides]

"Zapotec language revitalization: Fostering intergenerational language transmission." Talk given at Fieldwork Forum. University of California, Berkeley. November 29, 2018. [slides]

"Comparatives in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec." Talk given at Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 10, Toronto. May 4, 2017.

"Communication based instruction and community involvement in language revitalization." Talk given at The 21st Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, University of California, Santa Barbara. April 21, 2017. [slides]

“Comparative Constructions in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec.” Talk given at the Workshop on the Languages of Meso-America, University of California, Santa Cruz. March 16, 2017.

“An experimental approach to calculating the communicative cost of kinship systems in underdocumented langauges.” Talk given (via Skype) at Children’s Acquisition of Kinship Knowledge: Theory and Practice, Bristol, England. January 25, 2017. [slides]

“Sintaxis y Semántica de Trayectoria en Quechua.” [Syntax and Semantics of Path in Quechua]. Talk given at Programa de Formación en Educación Intercultural Bilingüe para los Países Andinos. June 5, 2016. [slides]

“Zapotec language documentation and revitalization in Teotitlán del Valle.” Talk given at The Group on American Indian Languages. University of California, Berkeley. November 16, 2016. [slides]

“Number marking and bare noun interpretation in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec.” With Amy Rose Deal. Paper presented at Sinn und Bedeutung. Edinburgh, Scotland. September 5, 2016.

“Number marking and the definite interpretation of bare nouns in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec.” With Amy Rose Deal. Paper presented at Definiteness Across Languages. Mexico City, Mexico. July 22, 2016.

“Exponencia múltiple en el zapoteco de Mitla y su explicación sincrónica.” [A synchronic account of multiple exponence in Mitla zapotec]. Paper presented at Coloquio de lenguas otomangues y vecinas VII. Oaxaca, Mexico. April 7, 2016.

“Los cambios de código español-zapoteco y las implicaciones para una caracterización de v.” [Spanish-Zapotec code-switching and the implications for a characterization of little v]. Paper presented at Coloquio de lenguas otomangues y vecinas V. Oaxaca, Mexico. April 22, 2012.

Create your own Sounds and Letters Bingo

Beniit kon xpejigan ('Benita and her balloon') counting storybook in Zapotec

Books based on Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see created by students in Zapotec language camps

Path in South Bolivian Quechua, SCL 2017-03, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2XP7332 [link]

(with Margaret Cychosz, Dmetri Hayes, Tyler Lau, Myriam Lapierre, Lev Michael, and Emily Remirez) Berkeley Field Methods: South Bolivian Quechua, SCL 2016-13, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2T72FMM [link]