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:
- Mary Paster, 2006, Phonological conditions on affixation (Andrew Garrett and Sharon Inkelas, co-chairs)
- Pawel Nowak, 2006, Vowel Reduction in Polish (John Ohala, chair)
- David Mortensen, 2006, Logical and substantive scales in phonology (Sharon Inkelas and James Matisoff, 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)