Gloria Mellesmoen

Lecturer at Yale University

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), syllable structure, 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

November 2026: Why doesn’t phonology respect my (morphological) boundaries? Talk at Morphosyntactic Conditioning of Phonology in Stratal and Parallel Frameworks (w. B. Trotter).

Recent Events

July 2026: Talks at the 61st International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages (w. B. Trotter, T. Kye, N. Luntzlara, D. Reid, and B. Hall).

June 2026: Tolerance of Stressed Weightless Vowels is Language-Specific. Talk at Congrès de l’ACL 2026 / 2026 CLA conference.

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 Papers and Proceedings

Gloria Mellesmoen and Bailey Trotter. The long and short of subject clitics in ʔayʔaǰuθəm. Papers for the 61st International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages. [paper]

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]

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