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(updated last: July 2, 2021)

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Papers and Conferences in 2022

Linguistics Vanguard, 2022

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

Amanda Cardoso , James Crippen and Gloria Mellesmoen.

Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics (CWSL) 4, 2022

Exploring Phonetic Variation and the Individual Grammar: Sociolinguistics and Fieldwork in the Context of Smaller Speech Communities [slides]

Gloria Mellesmoen

Papers and Conferences in 2021

International Journal of American Linguistics (IJAL) 87(3), 2021

How to distribute events: ʔayʔaǰuθəm pluractionals [paper]

Marianne Huijsmans and Gloria Mellesmoen.

Papers for the International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages 56 (ICSNL 56 - August 2020)

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

Gloria Mellesmoen

An Overview of Control and Non-Control in

ʔayʔaǰuθəm (Comox-Sliammon) [paper]

Marianne Huijsmans and Gloria Mellesmoen

Some Remarks on the Distribution and

Representation of Glottalized Resonants in Salish [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen and Suzanne Urbanczyk

12th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics (ICNGL12), 2021

Investigating phonemic inventories without minimal pairs: Defining contrast in the vowel inventory of Comox-Sliammon (ʔayʔaǰuθəm) [slides]

Gloria Mellesmoen and Amanda Cardoso

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

Gloria Mellesmoen

28th Manchester Phonology Meeting (mfm28), 2021

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

Gloria Mellesmoen

West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics 39 (WCCFL), 2021

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

Gloria Mellesmoen

Papers and Conferences in 2020

Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP), 2020

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

Gloria Mellesmoen and Suzanne Urbanczyk

Journal of the Acoustic Society of America (JASA) 147(4), 2020

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

Gloria Mellesmoen and Molly Babel

Working Papers of the Linguistics Circle of Victoria (WPLC) 30(1), 2020

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

Gloria Mellesmoen

Papers for the International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages 55 (ICSNL 55 - August 2020)

Mora affixation and Halkomelem imperfective allomorphy [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen and Suzanne Urbanczyk

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

Henry Davis, Marianne Huijsmans, and Gloria Mellesmoen

Extracting possessors in ʔayʔaǰuθəm (and beyond) [paper]

Henry Davis, Laura Griffin, Marianne Huijsmans, and Gloria Mellesmoen

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

Karen Galligos, D. K. E. Reisinger, Gloria Mellesmoen, Marianne Huijsmans, and Laura Griffin

Laboratory Phonology 17 (LabPhon 17 - July 2020)

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

Gloria Mellesmoen

West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics 38 (WCCFL 38 - March 2020)

Avoiding multiple reduplication without INTEGRITY [handout] [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen and Suzanne Urbanczyk

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

Nicholas Baier and Gloria Mellesmoen

Berkeley Language Society (BLS) Workshop: Phonological Representations: At the Crossroad between Gradience and Categoricity (2020)

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

Gloria Mellesmoen and Amanda Cardoso

Paper and Conferences in 2019

Canadian Acoustics, 47(3), 2019

Production study of Spanish spirantization in naturalistic speech [paper]

Grace Purnomo, Gloria Mellesmoen, Arian Shamei, and Bryan Gick

Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 19, 2019)

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

Molly Babel and Gloria Mellesmoen

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

Proceedings of the 29th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT 29, 2019)

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

Gloria Mellesmoen and Marianne Huijsmans


5th Workshop on Sound Change (WSC 5, 2019)

Acoustic evidence for a fricative-first path from Proto-Salish *t͡s to Comox-Sliammon /θ/ [poster]

Gloria Mellesmoen

Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on the Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas (SULA 10, 2019)

How to distribute events: ʔayʔaǰuθəm pluractionals [paper]

Marianne Huijsmans and Gloria Mellesmoen

Annual Canadian Linguistics Association Conference/Association canadienne de linguistique (CLA/ACL, 2019)

Pluractionality in ʔayʔaǰuθəm [talk slides and paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen and Marianne Huijsmans

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

Grace Purnomo, Gloria Mellesmoen, and Bryan Gick

Sinn und Bedeutung 24 (SuB 24, 2019)

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

Gloria Mellesmoen, Lisa Matthewson, and Henry Davis

Papers for the Fifty-Fourth International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages (ICSNL 54, 2019)

Degree constructions in two Salish languages [paper]

Henry Davis and Gloria Mellesmoen

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

Gloria Mellesmoen

Stative allomorph selection and raised pitch in ʔayʔaǰuθəm [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen and Marianne Huijsmans

Papers and Conferences in 2018

Frontiers in Communication 3, 2018

Prior pronunciation knowledge bootstraps word learning [paper]

Khia Johnson, Gloria Mellesmoen, Roger Lo, and Bryan Gick

Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 40 (TWPL 40 - 2018)

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

Gloria Mellesmoen

Papers for the 53rd International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages (ICSNL 53, 2018)

A one (morpheme) by one (morpheme) approach to paʔapyaʔ: -Vʔ- as a temporal pluractional infix in Comox-Sliammon [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen

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

Gloria Mellesmoen

In Wa7 xweysás i nqwal’utteníha i ucwalmícwa: He loves the people’s languages: Essays in honour of Henry Davis

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

Marion Caldecott and Gloria Mellesmoen

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 and Conferences in 2017

Papers for the 52nd International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages (ICSNL 52, 2017)

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

Gloria Mellesmoen

Overt third person object agreement in ʔayʔaǰuθəm [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen

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

Gloria Mellesmoen and Bruno Andreotti

Northwest Linguistics Conference, (NWLC 33, 2017)

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

Gloria Mellesmoen

Papers and Conferences in 2016

University of Toronto (MA, 2016)

Front Vowel Phonology of BC English [forum paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen

Strathy Student Working Papers on Canadian English (2016)

Discerning the sub-phonemic identity of pre-nasal /æ/ in British Columbia English [paper]

Gloria Mellesmoen

2nd Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics (CWSL 2, 2016)

Allophones in the Canadian Shift: Evidence from a sub-phonemic chain shift in British Columbia English [talk slides]

Gloria Mellesmoen