Projects
Lab members are currently working on many separate and exciting projects in collaboration with community members, including language learning websites and apps, as well as investigations into many different linguistic areas.
Our lab also works closely with two other lab groups at UBC: Salish Working Group and Secwepemctsín Working Group.
A list of the ongoing projects and a short description:
| Ongoing Projects (Members) | Short Description |
|---|---|
| Conversations: (many members) | |
| Stories: (many members) | This project involves recording speakers telling stories (legends, personal memories, etc.) and then putting together a transcription, meaning breakdown, and translation. |
| Polar Questions: (Lisa Matthewson) | |
| Modals: | |
| Aspiration: (Danica Reid) | This project investigates how the stop consonants /p, t, k, q/ are pronounced when they are found in different parts of a word. |
| Vowel Variation: (Gazelle Khalaji Pirbaluti) | This project is about variation in pronunciation of vowel-consonant combinations. |
| Infinitives: (Brent Hall) | The purpose of this project is to investigate the syntactic distribution and behavior of infinitives. |
| Degree Adjectives?: | |
| Building Verbs: (Sander Nederveen) | This project investigates how verbs extend over time influenced by the marking of the verb with -nwén̓-, -nwéłn̓, -n- or -t-, and -(ə)m. |
| Automatic Glossing: (Anna Stacey) | This project uses technology to try to automate the "glossing" (meaning breakdown) stage of the documentation process, to accelerate our output. |
| Diminutive Reduplication: (Noah Luntzlara) | This project is about the glottal sounds associated with diminutive reduplication, i.e., words for "little" things which involve internal copying |
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Publications
5 publications from various lab members were included in the 2024 proceedings of the ICSNL (International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages):
- Bernice Garcia, Ella Hannon, & Anna Stacey: “Three Glossed Nɬeʔkepmxcín Narratives by Kʷəɬtəzétkʷu“, pp. 68–94.
- Brent Hall & Bev Phillips: “xʷíʔ kʷ páq (You Will Be Sorry)“, pp. 128–156. [Audio]
- Ella Hannon: “Connected Speech in Nɬeʔképmxcín: “Functions of ʔe meɬ nes in Discourse and Storytelling“, pp. 157–168.
- Sander Nederveen: “Bare Roots or a Lack Thereof in Interior Salish“, pp. 423–433.
- Cayla Smith: “A Brief Report on the Nłeʔkepmxcín Reportative“, pp. 541–549.
8 publications from various lab members were included in the 2023 proceedings of the ICSNL (International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages):
- Katherine Givens: “Degree Comparison in Nɬeʔkepmxcín“, pp. 66–77.
- Katherine Givens & Brent Hall: “The Moon and the Birchbark Canoe (ɬ máʕxetn pe ɬ qʷɬinéwɬ)“, pp. 78–84. [Audio].
- Brent Hall: “A Brief Look at Infinitives in Nɬeʔkepmxcín“, pp. 85–93.
- Ella Hannon & Cayla Smith: “A Brief Comparison of Two Nɬeʔkepmxcín Evidentials“, pp. 94–116.
- Ella Hannon, Anna Stacey, & Reed Steiner: “Glossed Conversational Data in Nɬeʔkepmxcín“, pp. 117–158.
- Zara Khalaji Pirbaluti: “Vowel Variation in Nɬeʔkepmxcín: An Acoustic Study of Coarticulation“, pp. 199–218.
- Lisa Matthewson: “Two Types of Polar Question in Nɬeʔkepmxcín“, pp. 291–332.
- Danica Reid: “An Acoustic Analysis of Aspiration in Nɬeʔkepmxcín“, pp. 368–383.