Isaac L. Bleaman
Associate Professor, Linguistics and Jewish Studies
University of California, Berkeley
bleaman@berkeley.edu
Office: 1216 Dwinelle Hall
Publications
For publications without a direct PDF link, please email me to request a copy.
2025
- Zhou, Naitian, David Bamman, and Isaac L. Bleaman. 2025. Culture is not trivia: Sociocultural theory for cultural NLP. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, vol. 1, 25869–25886. PDF
- Bleaman, Isaac L., and Chaya R. Nove. 2025. The Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe: Goals, methods, and applications. Language Documentation & Conservation 19: 142–157. PDF
2024
- Bleaman, Isaac L., and Rhea Kommerell. 2024. A computational approach to detecting the envelope of variation. Linguistics Vanguard 10(1): 385–395.
2023
- Bleaman, Isaac L., Jacob J. Webber, and Samuel K. Lo. 2023. Speech synthesis in the “mother tongue”: Designing, training, and evaluating a text-to-speech system for Yiddish. Journal of Jewish Languages 11(1): 15–43.
2022
- Bleaman, Isaac L., Katie Cugno, and Annie Helms. 2022. Medium-shifting and intraspeaker variation in conversational interviews. Language Variation and Change 34(3): 305–329. PDF
- Webber, Jacob J., Samuel K. Lo, and Isaac L. Bleaman. 2022. REYD – The first Yiddish text-to-speech dataset and system. Proceedings of Interspeech 2022, 2363–2367. PDF
- Bleaman, Isaac L. 2022. Minority language maintenance and the production-prescription interface: Number agreement in New York Yiddish. Journal of Sociolinguistics 26(2): 221–245.
- Bleaman, Isaac L. 2022. Predicate fronting in Yiddish and conditions on multiple copy Spell-Out. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 40(2): 393–424. PDF
2021
- Bleaman, Isaac L., and Daniel Duncan. 2021. The Gettysburg Corpus: Testing the proposition that all tense /æ/s are created equal. American Speech 96(2): 161–191.
2020
- Bleaman, Isaac L. 2020. Implicit standardization in a minority language community: Real-time syntactic change among Hasidic Yiddish writers. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 3: 35 (1–20). PDF
- Bleaman, Isaac L. 2020. Yiddish linguistics. Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies, ed. Naomi Seidman. New York: Oxford University Press.
2019
- Bleaman, Isaac L. 2019. Guidelines for Yiddish in bibliographies: A supplement to YIVO transliteration. In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. PDF
2018
- Bleaman, Isaac L. 2018. Outcomes of minority language maintenance: Variation and change in New York Yiddish. PhD dissertation, New York University.
2017
- Bleaman, Isaac L. 2017. Uriel Weinreich: Contact linguist, historical linguist, and Yiddishist par excellence. Journal of Jewish Languages 5(2): 131–143. PDF
2016
- Bleaman, Isaac L. 2016. Yiddish has a word for that! Notes on the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary (2016). In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies.
- Bleaman, Isaac L. 2016. Review of Origins of Yiddish Dialects by Alexander Beider (Oxford University Press, 2015). East European Jewish Affairs 46(2): 223–226. PDF
2015
- Bleaman, Isaac L. 2015. Verbal predicate fronting in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish. Journal of Jewish Languages 3(1–2): 66–78. PDF
- Reprinted in Language Contact and the Development of Modern Hebrew (2016), ed. Edit Doron, 63-75. Leiden: Brill.