2026 is off to a great start for UCSB Linguistics - many congrats to Prof. Lal Zimman for delivering his momentous and perspicuous keynote talk at the LSA Annual Meeting in New Orleans on Jan. 10!

UCSB Linguistics Ph.D. graduate Dozandri Mendoza recently published a piece in English and Spanish at SAPIENS Magazine: www.sapiens.org/language/pue... . Also available in French and Brazilian Portuguese by secondary translation!

Cooper Bedin and Monty Benesch have a book chapter coming out: www.girldadpress.com/scatc

The 28th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages is scheduled for May 2-3, 2026, here at UCSB: www.wailconference.org, with keynote speaker Dr. Telma Can Pixabaj (UNAM, CIMSUR) Call for Papers : linguistlist.org/issues/36/3396

We congratulate Marissa Morgan on being awarded the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center's Visual, Performing, and Media Arts Award for her project “Kings, Ancestors, Deities, and Diaspora: A Short Documentary of the One-Year Enstoolment Anniversary of the Ahwerewamhene”. Congrats Marissa!

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED! The 27th Language Interaction and Social Organization (LISO) conference will be May 23–24, and the symposium on May 25. Submission deadline is now January 31st! Conf website: liso.ucsb.edu/conferences Submissions: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/76886...

🚨 Announcing the 27th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL 27)! May 2-3, 2025 Abstract deadline: December 31, 2024 Abstracts may be submitted in English, Spanish, or Portuguese See wailconference.org for more

important summer time science, friends

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

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/livinglangua...

New paper from Georgia Troiani, John Du Bois, and Andrey Filchenko: "Corpus as a slice of life" ricl.aelinco.es/first-view/3...

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/zhang20...

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/art...

@improvingpsych.bsky.social's #SIPS2024 is bound to be even more invigorating than usual, which is saying a lot - it's my favorite conference! If you're feeling FOMO, sign up for the online conference before June 12! Registration is only $10-50; there are waivers. www.improvingpsych.org/SIPS2024/

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

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.

Join me and others for our upcoming Unconference on pedagogy in #phonetics (applicable to #linguistics more broadly, and probably other subjects as well!) 10 June at the University of York Registration is free but spaces are limited! www.york.ac.uk/language/new...

Interested in the unmaking of binaries in language & gender? Eric & I would like to invite you to join a collaborative, conversational working session on #RedoingLinguisticWorlds at the Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference krisknisely.com/rlw2 Interest form due 9 June Please share widely!

Tenure stream position in German sociolinguistics at Michigan State University! Language and culture (e.g., applied ling, socioling, social perspectives on SLA). Application review begins 8/25. Position starts 8/16/25. Please share this opportunity widely with your networks! 🐦🐦

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 ❤️!

Posting on behalf of the blueskyless Marina Zhukova: 'do you use emoji 😀? do you live in the US🇺🇸 ?if so, please participate in our study of how emoji affect the interpretation of messages and take a short (10 min) survey 🧑‍💻 bit.ly/3Xnz0ew -- repost please! 🙏'

We're excited to be hosting Dr. Megan Burkhardt-Reed (UCLA) for this week's colloquium-- "The Emergence of Language in Infancy: Development and Evolution". Come learn about 👶💬👋 (babies, speaking, and gestures)! SH 3605, Thursday May 9 at 3:30

Here’s my interview with my local NPR affiliate about ‘Latine’ theshow.kjzz.org/content/1879...

This one's for the linguists AND non-linguists: what would you want to learn from a short fact sheet about endangered languages? What are some key pieces of information that would be useful in learning, teaching, or advocacy? 🐦🐦

🐳🐋 WAIL26 starts today! Are you as excited about it as we are?? www.wailconference.org

Re-upping this again! I'm now especially looking for Canadians, Australians, Aotearoans, and Irish! But also Brits, Americans, and everyone else, too. Please share to people who aren't on Bluesky, too, if you're able.

it's a colloquium week! tomorrow (Thursday 5/2) Albert Ventayol-Boada will present 'Machine learning methods for grammar description: Insights from Kolyma Yukaghir' SH3605 / 3:30

This month we get enthusiastic about what visualizing our vowels tells us about who we are. We commissioned Dr Bethany Gardner to make custom vowel plots for us, like this stylized version of our Wells Lexical Set results. Check out the episode and see more vowel plots: lingthusiasm.com/pos...

The recording is online - @meganfigueroa.bsky.social gave an amazing talk at my university and you should go check it out! It's called "Racism in the Field of Language Development: Evidence from the US". The slides and subtitles are available too! r.jyu.fi/engseminars2...

We can now break the news that grad student Guillem Belmar Viernes will be leaving us soon to start a new faculty job at U Oregon. we're so proud of you Guillem!!! ♥️ 🎉 🍾

New paper alert from Ingrid Bowman and Briana Westmacott on the EMS (English for Multilingual Speakers) side of our department on the 'fishbowl' technique for classroom engagement wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/b...

The hard-hitting linguistics question of the day: Is a hot dog a sandwich? UCSB linguist Laurel Brehm weighs in, among other 'experts' (aka linguists and other language nerds) buttondown.email/theswordandt...

We've got some news! Registration is open! Check out the preliminary program for WAIL26 on our website and register by April 19th... you don't wanna miss out on this amazing line-up! Registration: www.wailconference.org/wail-26/regi... Program: www.wailconference.org/wail-26/prog...

Mary Bucholtz isn't on social media but she is a UCSB linguist! We're so proud of these books and the fantastic work in them by colleagues such as Rikker! #linguistics

I submitted the last bit (our intro) for a SI on research ethics in applied linguistics. The empirical contributions are already listed in the SI collection, and an intro by Peter De Costa and I, along with a closing commentary by Peter, will be there soon: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese...

Come check out our webinar on responding to peer review this afternoon at 2:00pm EST!

New paper from Stefan Th. Gries & Tammy Giles "Talking across the interdisciplinary aisle: A guide for legal and corpus-linguistic scholars and practitioners" www.stgries.info/research/202...

Roses are red Violets are blue How you language is beautiful It tells the story of you

roses are red linguistic variation is sublime nonbinary they is undergoing change over time

roses are red language change is terrific singular they is different when it's specific

Roses are red I like abusing clitics You may think that sounds Like it's dirty butn't it's

Roses are red Shapes have no sound Except kikis are pointy And boubas are round

Congrats to Chloe Willis on her new paper! www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

It's a colloquium day again tomorrow (February 15)! We're excited for Weijan Meng (University of Melbourne) to present 'Focus system in Saek: Towards a typology of common-ground management in Mainland Southeast Asia'. 3:30 PST. Zoom only -- if you haven't got the link, dm us for it.

Since this site is open now, have a greatest hits thread of #linguistics takes on the Roses are Red meme: Roses are red Violets are blue Ideas are green And colourless too

Roses are red but can also be blue if, at great speed they come towards you

Roses are kiki Violets, boboua Countable nouns Work with "less" *and* "fewer"

Roses are red Aitches are glottic Rhymes can go different When you're non-rhotic

Roses are red I think you'll find All language is great Be it spoken or signed 💌