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Isaac L. Bleaman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and an affiliate of the Center for Jewish Studies. He also serves as faculty director of the Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley (SLaB). His research examines sociolinguistic variation, language maintenance, and language change, with a focus on contemporary Yiddish.
Bleaman earned a PhD in Linguistics from New York University (2018), an MA in Linguistics from NYU (2016), an MSt in Yiddish Studies from the University of Oxford (2013), and a BA in Linguistics & Comparative Literature from Stanford University (2012).
His current NSF CAREER-funded project develops a corpus of conversational Yiddish from Holocaust survivor testimonies. Research interests span:
- Phonetic/grammatical variation in Yiddish
- Computational methods for language analysis
- Syntactic theory and variation mechanisms
- Language standardization and maintenance
Recent publications focus on computational sociolinguistics, speech synthesis for Yiddish, syntactic variation, and language documentation. His work integrates corpus linguistics, experimental methods, and theoretical frameworks.
He directs the Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley and develops open-source tools for Yiddish text processing, including keyboard layouts, orthographic normalizers, and syllabification algorithms. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in sociolinguistics and Yiddish studies.
