Julianne Kapner

Hello!

I'm a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. My primary research areas are sociolinguistics and phonetics, especially in minority languages: I'm interested in understanding language variation and change in maintenance situations. I'm passionate about community-engaged research methodologies and exploring how research can benefit speech communities. My research generally involves a combination of fieldwork and quantitative/computational methods.

For the 2023-2024 academic year, I am a co-director of the Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley.

To learn about the Armenian Language in the Bay Area project, which I direct, visit the ALBA page!

Before graduate school, I worked for two years at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) as a research assistant, where I contributed to the ASHA Evidence Maps.

I have a B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Rochester; a Campus Times article reported on my undergraduate research.

Outside of linguistics, my favorite activities these days are hiking, social dancing (swing and contra dance in particular), and playing with my black cat, Hestia.

I respectfully acknowledge that I live, work, and study on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded land of the Chochenyo speaking Ohlone people.