Spring 2025
March 31: Planning meeting
April 7: Follow up discussion on the term 'fieldwork' and lab values
April 14: No meeting [RSVP to Emily if you are interested in lunch with Amy Rose Deal at 12pm]
April 21: No meeting [Laura McPherson (Darmouth College) virtual colloquium at 2pm]
April 28: Blake Lehman (Mississippi State University) - "Tone spread, reduced vowels, and the tone-bearing unit in Hän"
May 5: Mark Simmons on tools for morphological parsing
May 12: Kyle Jerro (SDSU) - “Three Innovated Tense Prefixes in Kihunde, an Bantu language from D.R.Congo”
May 19: Maha Aldawi - "Clausal negation strategies in Tagom"
May 26: No meeting [Memorial Day holiday]
June 2: Stan Rodríguez (Iipay Kumeyaay, KCC)
Winter 2025
January 13: Planning meeting
January 20: Lab hike! (see email for more details) [MLK holiday]
January 27: No meeting
February 3: No meeting [department-wide event]
February 10: No meeting [department-wide event]
February 17: No meeting [Presidents' Day holiday]
February 24: Discussion of mentoring
March 3: Prospective Graduate Student Open House
March 10: Introduction to FLEx database creation
Fall 2024
October 14: Discussion of the term 'fieldwork'
October 21: Kwaras workshop session (Note: we will meet at 11:00am instead of our usual time)
October 28: Continued discussion of the term 'fieldwork'
November 4: Matt Carter - "Lexical affixes: brief typology and relevance for Ket and other 'polysynthetic' languages"
November 11: [No session - Veterans Day Holiday]
November 18: FLEx tutorial [Postponed]
November 25: Maha Aldawi on Tagom
December 2: Discussion of potential renaming of the lab
Spring 2024
April 8: Planning meeting
April 15: Anthony Struthers-Young - Apparent double downstep in Northern Toussian (ACAL practice talk)
April 22: Nina Hagen Kaldhol and Sharon Rose - Case marking and word order in Moro and Tira (ACAL practice talk)
April 29: Audio recording equipment training
May 6: Nadine Grimm (Rochester) - Tonal and segmental morphology in Bantu verb inflection (zoom talk)
May 13: Video recording equipment training
May 20: No meeting
Winter 2024
January 8: Planning meeting
January 22: Olivia Griffin on Balinese
February 5: Rachel Miles on Bloom books
March 4: Anthony Struthers-Young + Claudia Duarte Borquez + JJ Lim
Fall 2023
October 3: Planning meeting
October 9: Mark Simmons - overview of new Zugubul tool for automatic transcription
October 16: Michelle Yuan - "An apparent restriction on 3rd person vocalic clitics in San Juan Piñas Mixtec"
October 30: Natalie Weber (Yale University) - "Blackfoot Words: a database of Blackfoot lexical forms" (on Zoom)
November 27: Sharon Rose - "Grammatical tone and person marking in Rere"
December 4: Etna Teresita Pascacio Montijo (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California) - "The process of documenting medicinal plant knowledge in Cucapá"/ "Proceso de documentación de plantas con usos medicinales en cucapá"
Spring 2023
April 3: Nico Tedeschi - "Frames of reference in San Juan Piñas Mixtec: a methodology for remote elicitation"
April 24: Gabriela Caballero, Claudia Duarte Bórquez, and Claudia Juárez Chávez - "Tonal upstep and downstep in San Juan Piñas Mixtec (Tò’ōn Ndá’ví)"
May 1: Jacob Kodner (Harvard University) - "Language documentation and fieldwork in the nonprofit sector"
May 8: Carlos Gil Burgoin (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California) - "Morphological complexity in stem formation of Nortehrn Tepehuan verbs"
May 15: Florian Matter (UOregon) - "A first glimpse at a workflow for writing digital grammars"
May 22: Madeline Snigaroff (UChicago) - "Revitalization and fieldwork that complements communities: A case study with Aleut"
June 5: Sharon Rose
Winter 2023
January 9: updates, schedule and reconnecting for the new quarter!
January 23: discussion about AIMM
January 30: Jessica Coon (McGill University) - "Linguistic elicitation for advanced learners: A community–university partnership" (Collaborative work with Jasmine Jimerson, Karohniióstha Shea Sky, Mary McDonald, Tahohtharátye Joe Brant, Ryan DeCaire, Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Meghan Clayards, Dzéiwsh James Crippen)
February 6: Rachel Miles - "The emergence of argument ordering: insights from emerging sign languages and late first language exposure" (joint meeting with the Mayberry Lab, will take place in APM 4301)
February 13: Mark Simmons
February 27: Carlos Gil Burgoin (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California) [postponed]
March 6: Nina Hagen Kaldhol - "TAM and deixis marking in Tira" (note special time at 3pm)
March 13: Anthony Struthers-Young - "Northern Toussian TAMP grammatical tone"
Fall 2022
September 27: Introductions, updates, and schedule
October 31: Cathryn Donohue (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) - “Case variation in Nubri” (Zoom only, no in person meeting)
November 21: Matt Carter - "Interpredictability in Ket Derivational Paradigms" (Zoom only, no in person meeting)
November 28: Carlos Gil Burgoin (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California) [postponed]
Spring 2022
March 30: Planning meeting - Zoom only
April 6: Wilson de Lima Silva (University of Arizona) - "Language documentation practices based on language vitalization efforts"
April 27: Jaime Pérez González (UCSC) - "Progressive to Imperfective Shift in Mocho’ (Mayan)"
May 4: Rodrigo Ranero (UCLA) - "On the Virtues of Individual-Speaker Fieldwork: Lessons from Agreement in Tz’utujil"
May 18: Patricia Schneider-Zioga (CSU Fullerton) - "The linker, agreement & licensing in Kinande (Bantu)"
May 25: Mark Simmons - "Autosegmental model of vowel enclitics in San Juan Piñas Mixtec"
June 1: Matt Zaslansky - "Multiple exponence in Karakalpak"
Winter 2022
January 12: Ray Huaute - "The intonational structure of Torrez-Martinez Desert Cahuilla"
February 1: Scott AnderBois (Brown University) - "Preverbs in Yucatec Maya" (Joint work with Grant Armstrong (University of Wisconsin) and Edber Dzidz Yam (University of New Mexico)) - Joint meeting with Syntax and Semantics Babble, Tuesday 11:00-12:30
February 9: Virtual Open House overview of the Field Research Lab
February 16: Claudia Duarte-Bórquez - "The representation of tone in San Juan Piñas Mixtec: The role of underspecification" - special time on Wednesday at 2:30pm
Fall 2021
September 30: Introductions, updates, and schedule
October 15: Anita Chang (CSU, East Bay) - Book talk and workshop on Third Digital Documentary: A Theory and Practice of Digital Arts Activism, Critical Design and Ethics - Joint meeting with Linguistic Anthropology Lab, Friday 1:00-2:40
October 21: Discussion of "(Don’t) try this at home! The effects of recording devices and software on phonetic analysis" - Joint meeting with PhonCo
November 4: Discussion of IRB protocols
December 2: Adrienne Tsikewa (UC Santa Barbara) - "Collaborative language research and decolonizing methodologies"
December 9: Enrique Palancar (CNRS) - "Verb conjugations in Matlatzinca: Inflection classes and periphrasis" - Virtual meeting at 11:30am
Spring 2021
April 2: José Armando Fernández Guerrero - "Strategies of clausal complementation in Rere"
April 20: Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia) - "How experimental should we be?" - Joint meeting with SemanticsBabble, Tuesday 11:00am-12:30pm
May 3: CANCELED (rescheduled date TBA) Discussion of "(Don’t) try this at home! The effects of recording devices and software on phonetic analysis" - Joint meeting with PhonCo, Monday 12:00-1:00pm
May 7: Himidan Hassen, Nina Kaldhol, Peter Jenks (UC Berkeley), and Sharon Rose - "Content questions in Tira"
May 21: Hiroto Uchihara & Juana Mendoza (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) - "Minimality, Maximality and the Perfect Prosodic Word in Alcozauca Mixtec"
May 24: Michael Obiri-Yeboah - "Interactions between ATR vowel harmony and nasality" - Joint meeting with PhonCo, Monday 12:00-1:00pm
June 4: Michelle Yuan - "Verb-initial word order in San Juan Piñas Mixtec: Some considerations"
Winter 2021
January 15: Gabriela Caballero, Claudia Juárez Chávez, and Michelle Yuan - "Tonal and morphosyntactic properties of pronominal clitics in San Juan Piñas Mixtec"
January 22: Eric Campbell (UC Santa Barbara) - "Advances in the study of (grammatical) tone in diasporic Tu’un Savi varieties"
January 29: Virtual Open House overview of the Field Research Lab
March 5: Anthony Struthers-Young - "Multiple exponence in Northern Toussian"
March 12: Nina Kaldhol - "Polyfunctionality across time and space in Rere"
Fall 2020
October 2: introductions, summer reports, and updates
October 16: discussion of working with community collaborators remotely
October 30: Nina Kaldhol and Sharon Rose in collaboration with Himidan Hassen - "Tira verbal argument marking: The role of tone"
November 13: Zachary O'Hagan (California Language Archive, UC Berkeley) - discussion of archives and archiving best practices
December 4: Gabriela Caballero, Claudia Juárez Chávez, and Michelle Yuan - "Tonal and morphosyntactic properties of the San Juan Piñas Mixtec verb complex"
December 11: Gabriela Caballero, Claudia Juárez Chávez, and Michelle Yuan - "Tonal and morphosyntactic properties of the San Juan Piñas Mixtec verb complex" (continued)
Spring 2020
May 11: Felipe López (UC San Diego Literature) - "Using social media to teach and maintain Valley Zapotec"
May 18: Ryan Bennett (UC Santa Cruz) - "Vowel deletion as phonologically-controlled gestural overlap in Uspanteko"
Winter 2020
January 13: new SSILA abstract guideline discussion
January 17: Fiona McLaughlin (U. of Florida) - special session on Friday at 2pm
January 27: Yuan Chai - "Neutralization of Xiapu Min tones in disyllabic tone sandhi forms"
February 3: Michelle Yuan on recent fieldwork on Labrador Inuttut
February 10: Mike Diercks (Pomona) and Justine Sikuku (Moi University) - "Object marking and information structure in Lubukusu"
February 24: Ben Eischens (UC Santa Cruz) - "Glottalization and root shortening in San Martín Peras Mixtec"
March 9: Ray Huaute on recent fieldwork on Cahuilla
Fall 2019
October 7: summer fieldwork reports
October 14: John Haviland (UC San Diego Anthropology)
October 21: Ray Huaute (UC San Diego Linguistics) - report on Endangered Language Documentation Programme training
October 28: Alex Rodriguez (UC San Diego Linguistics) - "Wh-questions in Rere"
November 4: Coppe van Urk (Queen Mary University) - "Different ways of introducing objects: Transitivity in Fijian"
November 11: no meeting
November 18: Carlos Gil Burgoin (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California) - "Interpreting prosodic patterns at the word level in Northern Tepehuan"
November 25: Michael Ahland (CSU Long Beach) - "Pahka'anil Text Project"
December 2: Ray Huaute & Gabriela Caballero (UC San Diego Linguistics) - "Reduplication and syncope in Cahuilla distributive verbs"
Spring 2019
April 8: Wesley Leonard (Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, UC Riverside) - Discussion of "Reflections on (de)colonialism in language documentation". Paper available here.
April 15: Philip Mutaka (University of Yaounde) - Exploring new research perspectives on African cultures through language documentation
May 6: Claudia Duarte-Bórquez & Justin McIntosh - practice talk for WAIL (An Introduction to San Juan Piñas Mixtec)
Winter 2019
March 4: Raymond Incamu Huaute - practice invited talk for SAIL "Towards a Native-Informed Approach to Linguistics: Insights from a Native Linguist & Language Reclamationist"
Fall 2018
Oct 12: Néstor Hernández-Green (CIESAS) Studies of grammatical tone in Otomi languages (2pm - special time)
Nov. 5: Wendy López (CIESAS)
Spring 2018
June 4: Michael Obiri-Yeboah on nasal vowels in Gua
May 14: practice MFM talk by Adam McCollum: "Locality, Transparency, and Uyghur backness harmony"
May 7: practice LabPhon and Tonal Aspects of Language presentations
April 9: discussion of 'Morphological H-tones in Macuiltianguis Zapotec' (Zimmermann to appear)
Winter 2018
March 12: Eric Campbell (UCSB) on grammatical tone in Oto-Manguean languages
March 5: Lynn Hou (UCSD) on fieldwork in San Juan Quiahije Chatino Sign Language (SJQCSL)
February 26: Rory Turnbull (U Hawai'i) on the word prosody of San Jerónimo Acazulco Otomí
February 12: Justin McIntosh (UCSD) on grammatical tone in Teotepec Eastern Chatino
January 22: Austin German (UCSD): "Eye gaze as a pointing device in Zinacantec Family Homesign"