In a series of blog posts, I write about coronaspeak by focusing on some of the phenomena that fascinate me the most, and what they can tell us about our linguistic minds. Today’s post is dedicated to the Norwegian corona compound korona-fast 'corona stuck'.
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Why don’t corona cats have crown-like spikes on their surface?
In a series of blog posts, I write about coronaspeak by focusing on some of the phenomena that fascinate me the most, and what they can tell us about our linguistic minds. Today’s post digs deeper into the phenomenon corona compounds.
Linguistic creativity in the time of corona
Spring 2020 has seen the emergence of a new field: corona linguistics. In a series of blog posts, I will write about coronaspeak by focusing on some of the phenomena that fascinate me the most.
Symposium on Indigenous Language Communities of the Californias (SILCC)
Ray Huaute (UCSD Linguistics) and I are organizing the first Symposium on Indigenous Language Communities of the Californias (SILCC)!
ACAL50
I presented my work on gender assignment to nominal compounds in Somali at the 50th Annual Conference on African Linguistics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
We hosted the Annual Meeting on Phonology!
The UCSD Linguistics department hosted the 6th Annual Meeting on Phonology, during which we encountered talking balafones, floating moras, Japanese baseball chants, and a whole range of other phenomena.
Moving to San Diego
I have just moved to San Diego to join this awesome group of PhD students in linguistics at UCSD!
The 10th Annual Meeting of the Society of the Neurobiology of Language
I attended SNL in Quebec City, and presented findings from the project Language and cognitive abilities in multilingual healthy aging.
Fulbright
I am happy to announce that I have been awarded a Fulbright Flagship stipend from the US-Norway Fulbright Foundation for Educational Exchange to pursue a Ph.D. degree in linguistics at the University of California, San Diego.