University of Calgary

Some PDFs

Submitted by admin on Thu, 2006-07-27 19:24.

Some writings: 

  • "Floating yet grounded: feature transmutation in Optimality Theory." Canadian Journal of Linguistics 56(3), 2011, 26p. [pdf @ Project Muse]
  • Introduction to Linguistic Analysis for Teachers of Canadian Indigenous Languages. Draft being testdriven at Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute. [pdf]
  • "Dentals are Grave" (with Sean Fulop). Proceedings of Acoustics Week in Canada 2008. [pdf]
  • "Aboriginal languages of Canada" (with Eung-Do Cook), chap. 9 in Contemporary Linguistic Analysis, 6th ed., 2008, 318-333. [pdf]
  • A Survey of the Literature on Aboriginal Language Learning and Teaching (with Jacqueline Ottmann, Jennifer Abel, and Stan Bird). Alberta Education, 2007. [pdf] or [here]
  • Articulator Theory: An Introduction to Segmental Phonology. Textbook ms., 2006. [pdf]
  • "Negation in African American Vernacular English", in Yoko Iyeiri (Ed.), Aspects of English Negation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2005, 173-203. [pdf]
  • "Nootka [Nuuchahnulth] and Wakashan Languages." In Philipp Strazny (ed.), Encyclopedia of Linguistics. London: Routledge, 2005, 753-756. [pdf]
  • "Acoustic features in Athabaskan" (with Sean Fulop). Complete draft, under revision. [pdf]
  • "Vocalic Dorsality in Revised Articulator Theory." Complete draft, under revision. [pdf]  
  • "Harmonic Scales as Faithfulness" (with Douglas Pulleyblank). Canadian Journal of Linguistics 49, 2004, 1-49. [pdf]
  • "Tone in Heiltsuk I". Partial draft, in progress (about 75%). Destined for International Journal of American Linguistics. [contact me for draft]
  • "Tone in Heiltsuk II". Partial draft, in progress (about 75%). Destined for International Journal of American Linguistics. [contact me for draft]
  • "On Blends in Malay" (with Michael Dobrovolsky). Partial draft, in progress (about 75%) [pdf]
  • "Alignment in Nootkan Prosodic Morphology". Handout of paper presented at the University of Alberta Department of Linguistics Colloquium Series, Edmonton, AB, Feb. 15, 2002. [pdf]
  • "Patterns and Timing of Glottalisation" (with Douglas Pulleyblank). Phonology 18, 2001, 45-80. [pdf]
  • Oowekyala Segmental Phonology. Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia, 2000. (Supervisory committee: Douglas Pulleyblank (Chair), Patricia Shaw (Co-chair), Emmon Bach) [pdf]
  • "On Debuccalisation and the Pharyngeal Specification of Laryngeals". Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America LXXIII, Los Angeles, CA, USA, January 5-9, 1999. [pdf]  
  • "Prosodic Faithfulness: Vowel Syncope and Reduction as Output-Output Correspondence". (with Patricia A. Shaw) Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association, Université du Québec, Sherbrooke, QC, June 4–6, 1999. [pdf]
  • Oowekyala-English Dictionary. Draft. [pdf]
  • "Negation and the history of African American English." Language Variation and Change, 9, 1997, 267-294. [pdf]
  • "Lenition and glottalization in Nuu-chah-nulth". In M. Dale Kinkade (ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages (Aug. 15-17, 1996), vol. 31, 174-184. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia. [pdf]

Some handouts:

  • "Sound Research: Phonetics and/or/vs Phonology." Paper presented at the Interdisciplinary Language Research: Relevance and Application Graduate Workshop, Language Research Centre, University of Calgary, Oct. 30, 2009. [pdf]  
  • "On the Corner", by Common. Handout of invited talk to 1st Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium, University of Calgary, AB, Mar. 27, 2009. [pdf]
  • "Plains Cree and Metrical Typology". Paper presented at the 13th Alberta Conference on Linguistics, Banff, AB, Oct. 25, 2008. [pdf]
  • "Emphasis in the Pacific Northwest Plateau." Paper presented at the 43rd Annual International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages, Squamish Nation and Capilano College, North Vancouver, BC, Jul. 25, 2008. [abstract: pdf; ppt: pdf]
  • "Sibilants vs. Shibilants in Dëne Sųłiné: A Near-Merger?" Handout of paper presented at the Athabascan/Dene Languages Conference, Cold Lake First Nation, Cold Lake, AB, Jul. 5, 2008. [pdf]
  • "Too Many Solutions: Says Who?" Handout of paper presented at the 12th Alberta Conference on Linguistics, Banff, Oct. 20, 2007. [pdf]
  • "Default [a] in North Wakashan Prosodic Morphology". Handout of paper presented at the 12th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas, University of Lethbridge, AB, Mar. 20, 2007. [pdf]
  • "Tonogenesis in Wakashan". Handout of paper presented at the University of Alberta Department of Linguistics Colloquium Series, Edmonton, AB, Nov. 4, 2005. [pdf]
  • "On Epenthesis and Moraicity in North Wakashan". (with Emmon Bach and Patricia Shaw). Handout of paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Oakland, CA, Jan. 7, 2005. [pdf]
  • "On Blackfoot Syllabics," with Rachel Ermineskin. 37th Algonquian Conference, Canadian Museum of Civilisation, Hull, QC, Oct. 23, 2005. [pdf]
  • "Acoustic features in Athabaskan" (with Sean Fulop). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Oakland, CA, Jan. 9, 2005. [pdf]
  • « Sur la dorsalité des voyelle françaises ». Phonologie du français: Enjeux descriptifs et théoriques, an international conference on French phonology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, July 6-9, 2004. [pdf]
  • "Vocalic Dorsality in Revised Articulator Theory." Paper from the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, MA, Jan. 9, 2004. [pdf]
  • "Segmental Features in Heiltsuk Tone." Handout of paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Boston, MA, Jan. 6, 2004. [pdf]
  • "Syllabic Obstruents in Oowekyala". Handout of paper presented at the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas/Workshop on American Indian Languages, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, July 6–8, 2001. [pdf]
  • "Oowekyala Text Analysis: The Little Girl and the Adjee." Paper presented at the Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, March 25–28, 1999. [pdf]