Current lab members (affiliated with UBC unless otherwise indicated):
Photo: | Member: | About: |
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Lisa Matthewson Principal investigator | Lisa is interested in everything about how meaning is expressed in Nɬeʔkepmxcín. Right now she is working on the two different ways that you can ask yes/no questions like ‘Is it raining?’ The two ways are used in slightly different types of contexts, depending on whether the asker thinks the answerer is going to answer ‘yes’. | |
Brent Hall BA graduate | Brent works on syntax and stories in Nɬeʔkepmxcín. | |
Ella Hannon PhD student Co-investigator | Ella is a Ph.D student working on tense, stories, and conversation in Nɬeʔkepmxcín. | |
Zara (Gazelle) Khalaji Pirbaluti MA student | Gazelle is interested in describing and documenting aspects related to sounds and sound patterns. She hopes to contribute to creating descriptions and pronunciation guides for learners. | |
Mila Loginova MA student | Mila is an MA student interested in Indigenous language documentation and preservation. She’s hoping to do fieldwork focusing on syntax and semantics. | |
Noah Luntzlara PhD student | Noah is a third year PhD student studying phonetics. He is originally from Michigan. He is interested in understanding the glottal sound patterns in Nɬeʔkepmxcín, especially associated with diminutive reduplication, i.e., words for "little" things which involve internal copying. | |
Sander Nederveen PhD student | Sander works on documentation and analysis of the grammatical structure and meaning of aspectual marking of verbs -- i.e., marking that indicates the time span of a verb. | |
Danica Reid PhD student Co-investigator Simon Fraser University (SFU) | Danica works on describing and documenting aspects related to sounds and sound patterns. | |
Cayla Smith MSc student University of Alberta | Cayla is interested in evidentials, or words which describe a speaker's source of evidence for a statement. | |
Anna Stacey MA student | Anna primarily works on developing technology to support language documentation, but also works with speakers directly on recording conversations/stories. | |
Reed Steiner PhD student | Reed works on meaning and grammar in Nɬeʔkepmxcín. |
Past lab members: Katie Givens (BA graduate)