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Ling 115
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Ling 581
Logophoricity
Mandarin
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Perception
Phonetics
Phonology
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TA
Theoretical
Tones
eye-tracking
reflexive
AQ
Autistic Traits
Phonetic imitation from an individual-difference perspective: Subjective attitude, personality and âautisticâ traits (Yu et al., 2013)
Bilingualism
Heritage Processing
SpanishâEnglish bilingual heritage speakersâ processing of inanimate sentences (Casper et al., 2024)
Proficiency
Predicting proficiency (Neveu et al., 2025)
Classifier
Project
Bare classifiers and definiteness A cross-linguistic investigation (Simpson et al., 2011)
Classifier Numerals
Classifiers can be for numerals or nouns: Two strategies for numeral modification (Little et al., 2022)
Classifier
Bare classifiers and definiteness A cross-linguistic investigation (Simpson et al., 2011)
Classifier Corpus
ClassifierGuesser: A context-based classifier prediction system for Chinese language learners (Peinelt et al., 2017)
Classifier Processing
Similarity-Based Interference in the Processing of Classifier-Noun Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese (Hao et al., 2024)
Classifier Model
HUsing BERT for choosing classifiers in Mandarin (JĂ€rnfors et al., 2021)
Classifier Model2
Classifier L2
How classifiers facilitate predictive processing in L1 and L2 Chinese: the role of semantic and grammatical cues (GruÌter et al., 2020)
Classifier Book
Classifier structures in Mandarin Chinese (Zhang, 2013)
Collective Noun
Collective Noun
Collective nouns and the distribution problem (Nicolas & Payton., 2024)
Corpus
Classifier Corpus
ClassifierGuesser: A context-based classifier prediction system for Chinese language learners (Peinelt et al., 2017)
Cue-based retrieval
Classifier Processing
Similarity-Based Interference in the Processing of Classifier-Noun Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese (Hao et al., 2024)
Fieldwork
Classifier Numerals
Classifiers can be for numerals or nouns: Two strategies for numeral modification (Little et al., 2022)
HS
Classifier Heritage Speaker
Schooling and language usage matter in heritage bilingual processing: Sortal classifiers in Mandarin (Hao et al., 2024)
Heritage
Heritage Processing
SpanishâEnglish bilingual heritage speakersâ processing of inanimate sentences (Casper et al., 2024)
Individual Differences
Jiyoung Thesis
Individual differences in phonology: the realization of stem-final coronal obstruents in Korean (Jo, J., 2024)
L2
Classifier L2
How classifiers facilitate predictive processing in L1 and L2 Chinese: the role of semantic and grammatical cues (GruÌter et al., 2020)
Phonology Lexical Tones
L2 difficulties in the perception of Mandarin tones: Phonological universals or domain-general aptitude? (Zhou & VerĂssimo, 2025)
Language Test
Proficiency
Predicting proficiency (Neveu et al., 2025)
Ling 115
Week5
Week 5
Week4
Week 4
Diglossia = switching between two different varieties of language in different areas of life
4 key properiteis
two distinct varieties of the same language in different situations
german-speaker switzerland
standard German
Swiss German
different from each other
labels to categorize two forms
H = high = standard german
L = low = swiss german
L ia not normally used for writing - only cartoons
different varities for different functions in different areas of life
use of H form is appropriate
use of L form is appropriate but not H form
H and L are in complementary distribution = when you hear one use but not the other, no ramdom ordination between H and L
Different varities are acquired or learned
in different areas of life
L is learned at home, first
later, H is learned in school
H variety is never used in informal conversation
in Swizeland people will chat each other in swiss german
2 additional propertieis
H variety may often be standarized
L variety normally has no dictionaries or grammatical descriptions
Literature/writing: often there is much literature in H of high status - plays, poetry, novels and all scientific/academic writing
Greece involves many years of diglossia, there is a H form and L form
Religious activities are carried out in the H form but not L form
political discussion and government is carried out in the H variety but not the L variety
Domains of H/L use
literature is almost exclusively in H: poetry, plays and novels
newspapers and technical/academic writing are also regularly in H not L
Soap operars are in L varieity
L is always used with family and friends
Extended diglossia
two varieties of the same language patterning in H and L ways
extended diglossia = two distinct languages patterning in the typical H and L ways
doesnât have the first properties of diglossia
Week3
Week 3
Nepal
very mixed population
many groups, languahes
multilingualism
Week2
Week 2
Week1
Week 1
Andrew already goes over the syllabus = maybe we should not go over it during the sections?
PowerPoints = be prepared to take notes during the class. The pop-quiz will be graded based on the information during the lecture, and pop-quizzes will be in person
6 correct answers for the pop quiz, then you will pass
The lecture will be recorded
no attendance
participation in linguistics experiments
Ling 580
Speech Computation
Bhaya-Grossman, I., & Chang, E. F. (2022). Speech computations of the human superior temporal gyrus. Annual review of psychology, 73(1), 79-102.
Week2 Assignment
For those with no phonetics background:
Exercises based on L&J, Chap 2.
Do exercises A-C. These should again be trivial.But do some of them just to check and make sure they are.
Week2 Lecture
speech gestures are constrictions of tongue tip and tongue body
tongue tip and palatal
speaker differences in lip closure synergies
achieves a low value of the release
Week2 Reading
Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century: a critical appraisal of time and space in Articulatory Phonology. Journal of Phonetics, 95, 101195. Read pp. 1-4 and Appendix A
didnât finish appendix A
Week1 Lecture
The Gestural Structure of Speech
Week1 Assignment
https://linguistics.berkeley.edu/acip/course/chapter1/chapter1.exercises.htm
Week1 Reading
Articulatory Phonology: A phonology for public language use (Goldstein & Fowler., 2003) [READ pp. 1-15]
Ling 581
Week2
ReadingsïŒ French schwa and gradient cumulativity
Week1
Readings
Mandarin
Phonology Lexical Tones Project
Current progress
A quick update on the inductive bias in lexical tone project. I reviewed all publicly available corpora, and only the Tong corpus explicitly annotates lexical tone production errors. Iâm now testing alternative aligners to see if I can automatically extract potential tone errors from the other corpora. So far, Iâve identified 175 disyllabic tone errors across two corpora.
Classifier Corpus
ClassifierGuesser: A context-based classifier prediction system for Chinese language learners (Peinelt et al., 2017)
Classifier Processing
Similarity-Based Interference in the Processing of Classifier-Noun Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese (Hao et al., 2024)
Chinese Bert
Pre-Training with Whole Word Masking for Chinese BERT (Cui et al., 2021)
Bert Base Chinese
Classifier Model
HUsing BERT for choosing classifiers in Mandarin (JĂ€rnfors et al., 2021)
Classifier Model2
Classifier L2
How classifiers facilitate predictive processing in L1 and L2 Chinese: the role of semantic and grammatical cues (GruÌter et al., 2020)
Classifier Book
Classifier structures in Mandarin Chinese (Zhang, 2013)
Phonology Lexical Tones
L2 difficulties in the perception of Mandarin tones: Phonological universals or domain-general aptitude? (Zhou & VerĂssimo, 2025)
Classifier Heritage Speaker
Schooling and language usage matter in heritage bilingual processing: Sortal classifiers in Mandarin (Hao et al., 2024)
Numerals
Classifier Numerals
Classifiers can be for numerals or nouns: Two strategies for numeral modification (Little et al., 2022)
Perception
Phonology Lexical Tones
L2 difficulties in the perception of Mandarin tones: Phonological universals or domain-general aptitude? (Zhou & VerĂssimo, 2025)
Phonetics
Speech Computation
Bhaya-Grossman, I., & Chang, E. F. (2022). Speech computations of the human superior temporal gyrus. Annual review of psychology, 73(1), 79-102.
Week2 Assignment
For those with no phonetics background:
Exercises based on L&J, Chap 2.
Do exercises A-C. These should again be trivial.But do some of them just to check and make sure they are.
Week2 Lecture
speech gestures are constrictions of tongue tip and tongue body
tongue tip and palatal
speaker differences in lip closure synergies
achieves a low value of the release
Week2 Reading
Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century: a critical appraisal of time and space in Articulatory Phonology. Journal of Phonetics, 95, 101195. Read pp. 1-4 and Appendix A
didnât finish appendix A
Week1 Lecture
The Gestural Structure of Speech
Week1 Assignment
https://linguistics.berkeley.edu/acip/course/chapter1/chapter1.exercises.htm
Week1 Reading
Articulatory Phonology: A phonology for public language use (Goldstein & Fowler., 2003) [READ pp. 1-15]
Phonology
Week2
ReadingsïŒ French schwa and gradient cumulativity
Week1
Readings
Picture Naming
Proficiency
Predicting proficiency (Neveu et al., 2025)
Project
Phonology Lexical Tones Project
Current progress
A quick update on the inductive bias in lexical tone project. I reviewed all publicly available corpora, and only the Tong corpus explicitly annotates lexical tone production errors. Iâm now testing alternative aligners to see if I can automatically extract potential tone errors from the other corpora. So far, Iâve identified 175 disyllabic tone errors across two corpora.
Screening
Suoyi
Syntactic structures of complex sentences in Mandarin Chinese (Lin., 2006)
Logophoricity Processing
Logophoricity and the processing of Chinese reflexives (Lyu & Kaiser., 2024)
Aspects Logophoricity
Aspects of logophoricity (Sells., 1987)
Sentence Formulation
Empathy Binding
On empathic and logophoric binding (Oshima., 2007)
è§è§
Perspective and long-distance binding of chinese reflexvies (Jyu., 2025)
ć„æł
A comparative study on the infleucne of syntactic constraints on Cataphora Resolution in Chinese and English (Jyu., 2024)
Empathy Syntax
Empathy and syntax (Kuno & Kaburaki., 1977)
Structural Semantic
Structural and semantic constraints on the resolution of pronouns and reflexives (Kaiser et al., 2009)
Collective Noun
Collective nouns and the distribution problem (Nicolas & Payton., 2024)
Jiyoung Thesis
Individual differences in phonology: the realization of stem-final coronal obstruents in Korean (Jo, J., 2024)
Screening Overall
Current Title: Animacy, Empathy Locus, and Logophoricity: An Individual-Differences Analysis of Reflexive Pronoun Resolution in Mandarin Chinese
Jun Thesis
SYNTACTIC AND NON-SYNTACTIC FACTORS IN REFLEXIVE PRONOUN RESOLUTION IN MANDARIN CHINESE (Lyn et al., 2023)
Autistic Traits
Phonetic imitation from an individual-difference perspective: Subjective attitude, personality and âautisticâ traits (Yu et al., 2013)
Sentence Processing
Heritage Processing
SpanishâEnglish bilingual heritage speakersâ processing of inanimate sentences (Casper et al., 2024)
TA
Week5
Week 5
Week4
Week 4
Diglossia = switching between two different varieties of language in different areas of life
4 key properiteis
two distinct varieties of the same language in different situations
german-speaker switzerland
standard German
Swiss German
different from each other
labels to categorize two forms
H = high = standard german
L = low = swiss german
L ia not normally used for writing - only cartoons
different varities for different functions in different areas of life
use of H form is appropriate
use of L form is appropriate but not H form
H and L are in complementary distribution = when you hear one use but not the other, no ramdom ordination between H and L
Different varities are acquired or learned
in different areas of life
L is learned at home, first
later, H is learned in school
H variety is never used in informal conversation
in Swizeland people will chat each other in swiss german
2 additional propertieis
H variety may often be standarized
L variety normally has no dictionaries or grammatical descriptions
Literature/writing: often there is much literature in H of high status - plays, poetry, novels and all scientific/academic writing
Greece involves many years of diglossia, there is a H form and L form
Religious activities are carried out in the H form but not L form
political discussion and government is carried out in the H variety but not the L variety
Domains of H/L use
literature is almost exclusively in H: poetry, plays and novels
newspapers and technical/academic writing are also regularly in H not L
Soap operars are in L varieity
L is always used with family and friends
Extended diglossia
two varieties of the same language patterning in H and L ways
extended diglossia = two distinct languages patterning in the typical H and L ways
doesnât have the first properties of diglossia
Week3
Week 3
Nepal
very mixed population
many groups, languahes
multilingualism
Week2
Week 2
Week1
Week 1
Andrew already goes over the syllabus = maybe we should not go over it during the sections?
PowerPoints = be prepared to take notes during the class. The pop-quiz will be graded based on the information during the lecture, and pop-quizzes will be in person
6 correct answers for the pop quiz, then you will pass
The lecture will be recorded
no attendance
participation in linguistics experiments
Theoretical
Classifier Book
Classifier structures in Mandarin Chinese (Zhang, 2013)
Tones
Phonology Lexical Tones Project
Current progress
A quick update on the inductive bias in lexical tone project. I reviewed all publicly available corpora, and only the Tong corpus explicitly annotates lexical tone production errors. Iâm now testing alternative aligners to see if I can automatically extract potential tone errors from the other corpora. So far, Iâve identified 175 disyllabic tone errors across two corpora.
Phonology Lexical Tones
L2 difficulties in the perception of Mandarin tones: Phonological universals or domain-general aptitude? (Zhou & VerĂssimo, 2025)
reflexive
Jun Thesis
SYNTACTIC AND NON-SYNTACTIC FACTORS IN REFLEXIVE PRONOUN RESOLUTION IN MANDARIN CHINESE (Lyn et al., 2023)