URAP

Andrew Garrett - Professor, Linguistics

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

Participants will help transform archival field recordings into resources used for linguistic research and language revitalization...

Keith Johnson - Professor, Linguistics

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: Off Campus

This project aims to document conversational speech of ordinary people of all ages and backgrounds who grew up in Oakland. Our main interest is in how people pronounce their words - is there an "Oakland accent" but the recordings are also social records from people spanning a wide range of age...

Hannah Sande - Professor, Linguistics

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project aims to format translated and transcribed linguistic interviews collected during fieldwork in Côte d'Ivoire, with the goal of archiving the interviews and their transcriptions and translations for use by other researchers as well as community members. The language of study for this project is Guébie, an endangered Kru...

Hannah Sande - Professor, Linguistics

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Some morphology is affixal, appearing sequentially before or after roots to add derivational or inflectional meanings. In other cases, morphology is stem-internal: it affects the identity of vowels or consonants in the base, changes the tone or stress of the base, or even removes segmental content from the base...

Hannah Sande - Professor, Linguistics

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project involves reformatting and editing a descriptive grammar of the endangered Guébie (Kru) language of Côte d'Ivoire, which has been documented, described, and analyzed by Professor Hannah Sande and her students over the past 12 years. Professor Sande is finishing up a grammar that presents the first description of...

Hannah Sande - Professor, Linguistics

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project aims to document, describe, analyze, write up, and possibly present and publish about the morphophonology of plural marking in Lobi, a Gur language spoken in West Africa. Plural morphology in Lobi is likely historically related to a noun class system, though synchronically there are no longer noun-class...

Eve Sweetser - Professor, Linguistics

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

It has long been known that co-speech gesture reveals aspects of on-line cognition which may not be revealed in speech itself. This project investigates the usage of gestures accompanying modals (e.g. CAN, MUST, MAY, SHOULD) and conditionals (IF-clauses), to see what understandings of modality and conditional relationships...

Eve Sweetser - Professor, Linguistics

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This group is a multilingual project, examining discourse about COVID-19 and about global climate change, in North American English, French and Spanish varieties, as well as in French of France. (A side project on Mandarin metaphor is not funded, but is also ongoing.) We are using the Coronavirus corpus...

Alan Yu - Professor, Linguistics

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

While substantial individual variation exists in speech perception, the neural origins of this variability remain unclear. This project examines whether individual differences in subcortical speech encoding—measured via frequency-following responses (FFR)—predict behavioral perceptual patterns. By linking brainstem-level neural representations to perceptual outcomes, this work illuminates how early...

Alan Yu - Professor, Linguistics

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project documents the phonetics and phonology of Washo, a critically endangered Native American language of California and Nevada. Drawing on two decades of audio recordings with native speakers, the project will produce the first comprehensive phonetic description of Washo, including detailed acoustic analysis of its consonant and vowel systems...

Alan Yu - Professor, Linguistics

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project aims to investigate ongoing language variation and change in Hong Kong (HK) Cantonese at a large scale using a mobile app developed on Gorilla, an online experimentation platform, for crowdsourcing speech data and survey responses...