Activities and Related Links
The Phonetics and Phonology Forum (Phorum) is a weekly talk and discussion series featuring presentations on all aspects of phonology and phonetics.
TREND - Trilateral (Phonology) Weekend - is an annual workshop involving students and faculty from UC Berkeley, Stanford, and UC Santa Cruz.
The UC Berkeley Phonology Lab is a teaching and research facility of the Department of Linguistics. Faculty, postdocs, and students (together with a number of visiting researchers) work together is this lively research environment.
Recent Berkeley Ph.D. dissertations in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology:
- Yao Yao, 2011, The Effects of Phonological Neighborhoods on Pronunciation Variation in Conversational Speech (Keith Johnson and Susanne Gahl, co-chairs)
- Eugenia Antic, 2010, The Representation of Morphemes in the Russian Lexicon (Eve Sweetser and Sharon Inkelas, co-chairs)
- Charles B. Chang, 2010, First Language Phonetic Drift during Second Language Acquisition. (Keith Johnson, chair)
- Erin F. Haynes, 2010, Phonetic and Phonological Acquisition in Endangered Languages Learned by Adults: A Case Study of Numu (Oregon Northern Paiute) Alice Gaby and Leanne Hinton, co-chairs)
- Shira Eden Katseff, 2010,Linguistic constraints on Compensation for Altered Auditory Feedback (Keith Johnson, chair)
- Teresa McFarland, 2009, The phonology and morphology of Filomeno Mata Totonac (Sharon Inkelas, chair)
- Andrew Simpson, 2009, The Origin and Development of Nonconcatenative Morphology (Gary Holland, chair)
- Molly E. Babel, 2009, Phonetic and Social Selectivity in Speech Accommodation (Keith Johnson, chair)
- Gabriela Caballero, 2008, Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) Phonology and Morphology (Andrew Garrett, chair)
- Christian Dicanio, 2008, The Phonetics and Phonology of San Martin Itunyoso Trique (Keith Johnson, chair)
- Yuni Kim, 2008, Topics in the phonology and morphology of San Francisco del Mar Huave (Sharon Inkelas, chair)
- Anne Pycha, 2008, Morphological Sources of Phonological Length (Sharon Inkelas, chair)
- Olga Gurevich, 2006, Constructional morphology: the Georgian Version (Eve Sweetser and James Blevins, co-chairs)
- David Mortensen, 2006, Logical and substantive scales in phonology (Sharon Inkelas and James Matisoff, co-chairs)
- Pawel Nowak, 2006, Vowel Reduction in Polish (John Ohala, chair)
- Mary Paster, 2006, Phonological conditions on affixation (Andrew Garrett and Sharon Inkelas, co-chairs)
- Ryan Shosted, 2006, The Aeroacoustics of Nasalized Fricatives (John Ohala, chair)
- Galen Sibanda, 2004, Verbal Phonology and Morphology of Ndebele (Larry Hyman, chair)
- Jeffrey Good, 2003, Strong linearity: Three case studies towards a theory of morphosyntactic templatic constructions (Larry Hyman, chair)
- Alan Yu, 2003, The Morphology and Phonology of Infixation (Sharon Inkelas, chair)
- Jonathan Barnes, 2002, Positional Neutralization: A Phonologization Approach to Typological Patterns (Sharon Inkelas, chair)
- Julie Lewis, 2002, Social Influences on Female Speakers' Pitch (John Ohala, chair)
