Clare S. Sandy
Department of Linguistics • University of California, Berkeley
1203 Dwinelle Hall • Berkeley, CA 94720
[email protected] • 510-917-5117
linguistics.berkeley.edu/~csandy
Education
University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., Linguistics; expected 2016
Dissertation: The Phonology and Morphology of Karuk
Committee: Andrew Garrett (chair), Sharon Inkelas, Darya Kavitskaya
University of California, Berkeley
M.A., Linguistics; 2011.
Brown University
B.A. with honors, Comparative Literature (literary translation focus); 1998
B.A., French Civilization; 1998.
Fellowships and Awards
National Science Foundation SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (2014-2016)
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow (Latin America, Portuguese)
Federal fellowship (2010-2011; 2011-2012)
Richard Diebold, Jr. Fellow in Linguistics
Departmental fellowship (2009-2010)
Teaching Experience
Graduate Student Instructor
Linguistics 100: Introduction to Linguistic Science.
Instructor: Line Mikkelsen, UC Berkeley (Spring 2015).
Graduate Student Instructor
Linguistics 100: Introduction to Linguistic Science.
Instructor: Darya Kavitskaya, UC Berkeley (Fall 2012).
Guest Lecture, “Accent”, Feb. 8, 2012
Linguistics 170: History, Structure, and Sociolinguistics of Karuk.
Instructors: Andrew Garrett and Line Mikkelsen, UC Berkeley (Spring 2012).
Research Experience
Graduate Student Researcher, Karuk narratives project.
Principal Investigator: Line Mikkelsen, UC Berkeley (Fall 2014).
Graduate Student Researcher, Karuk text database and syntactic treebank project.
Principal Investigators: Andrew Garrett and Line Mikkelsen, UC Berkeley (2012-2014).
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Additional Professional Experience
Cultural Resources Compliance Specialist
NewFields International, Yosemite, California (2005-2009)
Archeological Technician
National Park Service, Yosemite, California (2002-2004)
Peace Corps Volunteer
U.S. Peace Corps, Madagascar, Southern Africa (1999-2001)
Publications
2014. Tone and syllable structure in Karuk (Hokan, California). In P. Littell, A. Gutiérrez, R. Girard, and N.
Weber (eds.), Papers from the Seventeenth Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of
the Americas (WSCLA 17), University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, March 9-11 2012. University of British
Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics 36, pp. 37-58.
2013. Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, with Chundra
Cathcart, I-Hsuan Chen, Greg Finley, Shinae Kang, and Elise Stickles (eds.). Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics
Society.
2013. Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session
on Languages of the Caucasus, with Chundra Cathcart and Shinae Kang (eds.). Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics
Society.
2012. Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, with Zhenya
Antić, Charles B. Chang, Emily Cibelli, Jisup Hong, Michael J. Houser, Maziar Toosarvandani, and Yao Yao
(eds.). Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society.
2012. Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on
The Languages and Linguistics of Oceania, with Zhenya Antić, Charles B. Chang, and Maziar Toosarvandani
(eds.). Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society.
2006. Real and imagined landscapes: land use and conservation in the Menabe. Conservation and Society
4(2):304-324.
Talks and Presentations
“CVs using markdown”. Talk presented at Computational Linguistics Group, UC Berkeley, April 13, 2015.
“Punctuation is prosody: making historic transcriptions of Karuk accessible for revitalization and research”
(with Line Mikkelsen). Talk presented at the 4th International Conference on Language Documentation &
Conservation, Honolulu, HI, Feb. 28, 2015.
“Default accent in Karuk: evidence for stratal phonology”. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Linguistic Society of America, Portland, OR, Jan. 9, 2015.
“Bringing archival materials together to expand the Karuk text corpus”. Poster presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, OR, Jan. 11, 2015.
“Exploring Karuk morphology in a parsed text corpus” (with Andrew Garrett, Erik Maier, and Line Mikkelsen).
Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the
Americas, Portland, OR, Jan. 8, 2015.
“Bracketing Paradoxes in Karuk Compounding” Talk presented at Morphology Research Group, UC Santa
Cruz, May 23, 2014.
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“Translating Diacritics: A Comparison of Historic Transcriptions of Karuk Accent”. Talk presented at the
Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Minneapolis, MN,
Jan. 3, 2014.
“Developing a syntactically parsed corpus of Karuk” (with Andrew Garrett, Erik Maier, and Line Mikkelsen).
Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the
Americas, Minneapolis, MN, Jan. 3, 2014.
“Tone and Syllable Structure in Karuk”. Talk presented at Phonetics and Phonology Forum, UC Berkeley,
Sep. 17, 2012.
“Evidence for Syntactic Expression of Information Structure in Omagua” (1st author, with Zachary O’Hagan).
Talk presented at Syntax and Semantics Circle, UC Berkeley, Apr. 20, 2012.
“Verb Extensions in Abo (Bantu, A42)”. Paper presented at the 43rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics,
New Orleans, LA, Mar. 15, 2012.
“Tone, Stress, and Accent in Karuk”. Paper presented at the Workshop on Structure and Consistency in the
Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 17), Chicago, IL, Mar. 10, 2012.
“Stress Assignment in Omagua: Evidence for Cyclicity” (1st author, with Zachary O’Hagan). Talk presented
at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Portland,
OR, Jan. 8, 2012.
“Tone, Stress, and Accent in Karuk”. Talk presented at Qualifying Paper Fest, UC Berkeley, Nov. 7, 2011.
“Abo Word and Syllable Structure” (with Toni Cook). Talk presented at Phonetics and Phonology Forum,
UC Berkeley, Nov. 15, 2010.
Professional Activities and Memberships
Member, The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (2011-present)
Member, Linguistic Society of America (2007-present)
Mentor, Breath of Life Workshop for California Indian Languages, UC Berkeley (2010, 2012, 2014)
Editor, Berkeley Linguistics Society (2010-2013)
Organizer, BLS 37 Executive Committee, 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2010-2011)
Computing Skills
Linguistics: Praat, Wavesurfer, Audacity, FLEx
General: GIS, XML, LaTeX, MS Office, OpenOffice, Adobe Acrobat Professional, Adobe Illustrator
Languages
Fluent: English (native), French
Advanced: Portuguese, Spanish, Malagasy
Fieldwork/Research: Karuk (Hokan), Omagua (Tupí-Guaraní), Abo (Bantu A42)
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