Gloria Mellesmoen

Sessional Lecturer at UVic

I am a phonologist (and occasional phonetician) with an interest in non-concatenative morphology and syllable structure. My dissertation focuses on reduplication (link: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/90736). I am particularly interested in sub-phonemic structure (phonetics-phonology interface) and allomorphy.

I conduct fieldwork on Salish languages and I have also studied topics related to the semantics of non-concatenative morphology (form-function relationship). I ask questions related to language variation and change in smaller speech communities.

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Upcoming Events

March 2026: Where do your linguistic examples go after graduation? (The importance of linguistic fieldwork and analysis for teaching Indigenous languages). Invited talk at Northwest Linguistics Conference.

Recent Events

December 2025: Reduplication is paʔapyaʔ ‘one by one’ (one prosodic affix per stratum) in Salish. Talk for Atelier de phonologie (handout)

May 2025: Do we need AGREE? Evidence for feature agreement and sharing from Secwepemctsín (Salish) retraction and reduplication. Talk at mfm (Manchester Phonology Meeting) 31 (with J. Schillo) (slides)

Recent Papers and Proceedings

Gloria Mellesmoen. (2025). Limited by Number of Morphemes, not Copied Segments: Multiple Reduplication and Triplication in St’at’imcets. Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology. [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen. (2025). Innovations on classic Salish morphology: Glottal stop codas in Nuxalk and Halq'eméylem. Papers for ICSNL 60. [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen. (2025). Reduce, reuse, reduplicate: "Wrong side" reduplication in Twana. Papers for ICSNL 60. [paper]

Wendy Hall, Margaret Eli, Gloria Mellesmoen, Elder Grouse Barnes, Pamela Barnes, Charles Yoon, Patti A Janssen, and Kim Kosik. (2025). Two-Eyed Seeing for Parents: Developing an App for Parents in the syilx Okanagan First Nation. International Journal of Indigenous Health 21(1). [paper]

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