Research

Research by linguistic subfield

(updated last: November 2024) 

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Phonology

Limited by Number of Morphemes, not Copied Segments: Multiple Reduplication and Triplication in St’át’imcets [slides]

Gloria Mellesmoen (AMP 2024)

Reduplication and “vowel reduction” in Lushootseed. Paper at International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages [slides] [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen and Suzanne Urbanczyk (ICSNL 59: 2024)

Expanding the inventory of mora affixation: Diminutive reduplication in Lillooet [slides]

Gloria Mellesmoen (mfm30: 2023)

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)

Monomoraic Syllables with Non-Moraic Vowels in Salish: The Structure of a Monomoraic Syllable in Comox-Sliammon Reduplication [poster]

Gloria Mellesmoen (WCCFL 41: 2023)

Syllables and Reduplication in Bella Coola (Nuxalk) [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen (ICSNL 56: 2021)

Some Remarks on the Distribution and

Representation of Glottalized Resonants in Salish [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen and Suzanne Urbanczyk (ICSNL 56: 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)

Endangered Languages as Heritage Languages: Divergent Attainment and Phonological Regularization of Diminutive Reduplication in Comox-Sliammon (Salish) [slides]

Gloria Mellesmoen (ICNGL12: 2021)

Words without Vowels, Reduplication, and Syllable Structure in Bella Coola (Nuxalk) [abstract]

Gloria Mellesmoen (mfm28: 2021)

Reduplicative morphemes and their non-reduplicative allomorphs in Stratal OT: Stem-level and word-level reduplication in Hul’q’umi’num’ [poster] [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen (WCCFL 39: 2021)

Binarity in prosodic morphology and elsewhere [poster] [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen and Suzanne Urbanczyk. (AMP 2020)

A reanalysis of CV- reduplication in Comox-Sliammon [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen (WPLC 30:1, 2020)

Mora affixation and Halkomelem imperfective allomorphy [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen and Suzanne Urbanczyk (ICSNL 55: 2020)

Modularity and the allophone in the Comox-Sliammon (Salish) vowel system [poster]

Gloria Mellesmoen (LabPhon 17: 2020)

Avoiding multiple reduplication without INTEGRITY [handout] [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen and Suzanne Urbanczyk (WCCFL 38: 2020)

Contrast in the Comox-Sliammon (ʔayʔaǰuθəm) vowel system [poster]

Gloria Mellesmoen and Amanda Cardoso (BLS 2020)

A remedial path to merger: Merger by phonological transfer in British Columbia English [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen (TWPL 40: 2018)

Stative allomorph selection and raised pitch in ʔayʔaǰuθəm [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen and Marianne Huijsmans (ICSNL 54: 2019)

Sonorant voicing ([SV]) in Comox-Sliammon [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen (ICSNL 53: 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)

All the small things: Diminutive reduplication as infixation in ʔayʔaǰuθəm. [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen (ICSNL 52: 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)

STRUT-Raising in British Columbia English: Evidence for a Parallel Canadian Shift [slides]

Gloria Mellesmoen (NWLC 33: 2017)

Phonetics

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)

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)

Acoustically distinct and perceptually ambiguous: ʔayʔaǰuθəm (Salish) fricatives [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen and Molly Babel (JASA 147:4, 2020)

Production study of Spanish spirantization in naturalistic speech [paper]

Grace Purnomo, Gloria Mellesmoen, Arian Shamei, and Bryan Gick (CA 2019)

Perceptual adaptation to stereotyped accents in audio-visual speech [paper]

Molly Babel and Gloria Mellesmoen (ICPhS 19: 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)

Spanish spirantization is not phonetic weakening: a modular view [poster]

Grace Purnomo, Gloria Mellesmoen, and Bryan Gick (CLA 2019)

A preliminary look at glottalized resonants in ʔayʔaǰuθəm: Not a piece of caique [paper]

Marion Caldecott and Gloria Mellesmoen (Essays for HD: 2018)

Semantics

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)

Statives in ʔayʔaǰuθəm and St’át’imcets [paper]

Henry Davis, Marianne Huijsmans, and Gloria Mellesmoen (ICSNL 55: 2020)

Types of pluractionalty and plurality across domains in ʔayʔaǰuθəm [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen and Marianne Huijsmans (SALT 2019)

Degree constructions in two Salish languages [paper]

Henry Davis and Gloria Mellesmoen (ICSNL 54: 2019)

Pluractionality in ʔayʔaǰuθəm [talk slides and paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen and Marianne Huijsmans (CLA 2019)

Composing distributive numerals: Evidence from Comox-Sliammon [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen, Lisa Matthewson, and Henry Davis (SuB24: 2019)

How to distribute events: ʔayʔaǰuθəm pluractionals [paper]

Marianne Huijsmans & Gloria Mellesmoen (SULA 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)

Result state holds! Stative aspect and non-control morphology in ʔayʔaǰuθəm. [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen & Bruno Andreotti (ICSNL 52: 2017)

Morphology/Syntax

Extracting possessors in ʔayʔaǰuθəm (and beyond) [paper]

Henry Davis, Laura Griffin, Marianne Huijsmans, and Gloria Mellesmoen (ICSNL 55: 2020)

Spelling out object agreement in Central Salish [poster] [paper]

Nicholas Baier and Gloria Mellesmoen (WCCFL 38: 2020)

Overt third person object agreement in ʔayʔaǰuθəm [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen (ICSNL 52: 2017)

Historical Linguistics

Phonetic, Phonological, and Morphological Sources of Vowel Reduplication: The Innovation of V1 Reduplication in Salish [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen (ICSNL 59: 2024)

DIG Reconstruction and the Secret Life of Proto-Salish Diminutives [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen (ICSNL 57: 2023)

Cross-dialectal synchronic variation of a diachronic conditioned merger in Tlingit. [paper]

Amanda Cardoso , James Crippen and Gloria Mellesmoen (Linguistics Vanguard)

A fricative-first path from Proto-Salish *c to /s/ and /θ/ in Central Salish. [paper]

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)

Texts

The Fisher and the Little Fish: An ʔayʔaǰuθəm version of Aesop's fable  [paper]

Karen Galligos, Daniel Reisinger, Gloria Mellesmoen, Marianne Huijsmans, and Laura Griffin (ICSNL 55: 2020)

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)

Language Acquisition

Prior pronunciation knowledge bootstraps word learning [paper]

Khia Johnson, Gloria Mellesmoen, Roger Lo, and Bryan Gick (Frontiers, 2018)

Multiple

A newly discovered reduplication pattern in St’át’imcets and its implications [slides/paper]

Henry Davis and Gloria Mellesmoen (ICSNL 58: 2023)