Research
ʔayʔaǰuθəm (Comox-Sliammon)
The Role of Derived Allophones in Vowel Systems [slides]
Amanda Cardoso and Gloria Mellesmoen (UVic Colloquium: 2024)Mapping phonetic variation to phonological units: Feature sharing in Comox-Sliammon (Salish) [poster/paper]
Gloria Mellesmoen and Amanda Cardoso (ICPhS 20: 2023)Monomoraic Syllables with Non-Moraic Vowels in Salish: The Structure of a Monomoraic Syllable in Comox-Sliammon Reduplication [Poster PDF]
Gloria Mellesmoen (WCCFL 41: 2023)The Sleigh Accident: An ʔayʔaǰuθəm Childhood Memory [paper]
Joanne Francis, Marianne Huijsmans, Henry Davis, Laura Griffin, Gloria Mellesmoen, Daniel Reisinger, and Bailey Trotter (ICSNL 57: 2023)How To Distribute Events: ʔayʔaǰuθəm Pluractionals [paper]
Marianne Huijsmans and Gloria Mellesmoen (IJAL 87:3, 2021)An Overview of Control and Non-Control in ʔayʔaǰuθəm (Comox-Sliammon) [paper]
Marianne Huijsmans and Gloria Mellesmoen (ICSNL 56: 2021)Acoustically distinct and perceptually ambiguous: ʔayʔaǰuθəm (Salish) fricatives [paper]
Gloria Mellesmoen and Molly Babel (JASA 147:4, 2020)Endangered Languages as Heritage Languages: Divergent Attainment and Phonological Regularization of Diminutive Reduplication in Comox-Sliammon (Salish) [slides]
Gloria Mellesmoen (ICNGL12: 2021)Investigating phonemic inventories without minimal pairs: Defining contrast in the vowel inventory of Comox-Sliammon (ʔayʔaǰuθəm) [slides]
Gloria Mellesmoen and Amanda Cardoso (ICNGL12: 2021)Statives in ʔayʔaǰuθəm and St’át’imcets [paper]
Henry Davis, Marianne Huijsmans, and Gloria Mellesmoen (ICSNL 55: 2020)Extracting possessors in ʔayʔaǰuθəm (and beyond) [paper]
Henry Davis, Laura Griffin, Marianne Huijsmans, and Gloria Mellesmoen (ICSNL 55: 2020)The Fisher and the Little Fish: An ʔayʔaǰuθəm version of Aesop's fable [paper]
K. Galligos, D. Reisinger, G. Mellesmoen, M. Huijsmans, and L. Griffin (ICSNL 55: 2020)Modularity and the allophone in the Comox-Sliammon (Salish) vowel system [poster]
Gloria Mellesmoen (LabPhon 17: 2020)Contrast in the Comox-Sliammon (ʔayʔaǰuθəm) vowel system [poster]
Gloria Mellesmoen and Amanda Cardoso (BLS 2020)Types of pluractionalty and plurality across domains in ʔayʔaǰuθəm [paper]
Gloria Mellesmoen and Marianne Huijsmans (SALT 2019)Pluractionality in ʔayʔaǰuθəm [talk slides and paper]
Gloria Mellesmoen and Marianne Huijsmans (CLA 2019)Degree constructions in two Salish languages [paper]
Henry Davis and Gloria Mellesmoen (ICSNL 54: 2019)Acoustic evidence for a fricative-first path from Proto-Salish *t͡s to Comox-Sliammon /θ/ [poster]
Gloria Mellesmoen (WSC 5: 2019)How to distribute events: ʔayʔaǰuθəm pluractionals [paper]
Marianne Huijsmans and Gloria Mellesmoen (SULA 2019)The relationship between pronunciation and orthography: Using acoustic analysis as a practical illustration of ʔayʔaǰuθəm (Comox-Sliammon) vowel quality [paper]
Gloria Mellesmoen and Marianne Huijsmans (ICPhS 2019)Composing distributive numerals: Evidence from Comox-Sliammon [paper]
Gloria Mellesmoen, Lisa Matthewson, and Henry Davis (SuB 24: 2019)Stative allomorph selection and raised pitch in ʔayʔaǰuθəm [paper]
Gloria Mellesmoen and Marianne Huijsmans. (ICSNL 54: 2019)A one (morpheme) by one (morpheme) approach to paʔapyaʔ: -Vʔ- as a. temporal pluractional infix in Comox-Sliammon [paper]
Gloria Mellesmoen (ICSNL 53: 2018)A preliminary look at glottalized resonants in ʔayʔaǰuθəm: Not a piece of caique [paper]
Marian Caldecott and Gloria Mellesmoen (Papers for HD: 2018)To copy or not to copy, that is the question: Regarding consonant-vowel interactions in ʔayʔaǰuθəm imperfective reduplication.[paper]
Marianne Huijsmans, Gloria Mellesmoen, and Suzanne Urbancyzk (Papers for HD: 2018)Result state holds! Stative aspect and non-control morphology in ʔayʔaǰuθəm [paper]
Gloria Mellesmoen and Bruno Andreotti (ICSNL 52: 2017)All the small things: Diminutive reduplication as infixation in ʔayʔaǰuθəm. [paper]
Gloria Mellesmoen (ICSNL 52: 2017)St'át'imcets (Lillooet)
Limited by Number of Morphemes, not Copied Segments: Multiple Reduplication and Triplication in St’át’imcets [slides]
Gloria Mellesmoen (AMP 2024)A newly discovered reduplication pattern in St’át’imcets and its implications [slides/paper]
Henry Davis and Gloria Mellesmoen (ICSNL 58: 2023)Expanding the inventory of mora affixation: Diminutive reduplication in Lillooet [slides]
Gloria Mellesmoen (mfm30: 2023)Statives in ʔayʔaǰuθəm and St’át’imcets [paper]
Henry Davis, Marianne Huijsmans, and Gloria Mellesmoen (ICSNL 55: 2020)Degree constructions in two Salish languages [paper]
Henry Davis and Gloria Mellesmoen (ICSNL 54: 2019)Hul'q'umi'num'/hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ (Halkomelem)
Mora affixation and Halkomelem imperfective allomorphy [paper]
Gloria Mellesmoen and Suzanne Urbanczyk (ICSNL 55: 2020)ʕ̓ʷay̓áyiɬq̓ (Upper Chehalis)
DIG Reconstruction and the Secret Life of Proto-Salish Diminutives [paper]
Gloria Mellesmoen (ICSNL 57: 2023)Northern Straits and Klallam
The Mora is Key to Unified Analysis of Microvariation in Reduplication: The Distribution and Form of Plural Reduplication Across Dialects of Straits (Salish) [slides]
Gloria Mellesmoen (mfm30 fringe: 2023)Tlingit
Cross-dialectal synchronic variation of a diachronic conditioned merger in Tlingit. [paper]
Amanda Cardoso , James Crippen and Gloria Mellesmoen (Linguistics Vanguard: 2022)English (BC, Canadian)
A Remedial Path to Merger: Merger by Phonological Transfer in British Columbia English [paper]
Gloria Mellesmoen (TWPL 40: 2018)STRUT-Raising in British Columbia English: Evidence for a Parallel Canadian Shift [slides]
Gloria Mellesmoen (NWLC 33: 2017)Front vowel phonology of British Columbia English [Forum Paper]
Gloria Mellesmoen (U of T, MA: 2016)Discerning the sub-phonemic identity of pre-nasal /æ/ in British Columbia English [paper]
Gloria Mellesmoen (Strathy 2016)Allophones in the Canadian Shift: Evidence from a sub-phonemic chain shift in British Columbia English [talk slides]
Gloria Mellesmoen (CWSL 2: 2016)English (General)
Perceptual adaptation to stereotyped accents in audio-visual speech [paper]
Molly Babel and Gloria Mellesmoen (ICPhS 19: 2019)Gitksan
The quantitative phonetic analysis of languages with small accessible populations [poster/paper]
Márton Sóskuthy, Una Chow, Gloria Mellesmoen, and Emily Sadlier-Brown (ICPhS 20: 2023)Multiple
A View(point) from Outer Aspect: Cross-Salish Variation in Phonological Domains [slides]
Gloria Mellesmoen (Exploring Boundaries Workshop: 2025)Phonetic, Phonological, and Morphological Sources of Vowel Reduplication: The Innovation of V1 Reduplication in Salish [paper]
Gloria Mellesmoen (ICSNL 59: 2024)Some Remarks on the Distribution and
Representation of Glottalized Resonants in Salish [paper]
Gloria Mellesmoen and Suzanne Urbanczyk (ICSNL 56: 2021)Artificial Language
Prior pronunciation knowledge bootstraps word learning [paper]
Khia Johnson, Gloria Mellesmoen, Roger Lo, and Bryan Gick, B. (Frontiers, 2018)