Research
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 MellesmoenPapers 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 MellesmoenAn Overview of Control and Non-Control in
ʔayʔaǰuθəm (Comox-Sliammon) [paper]
Marianne Huijsmans and Gloria MellesmoenSome Remarks on the Distribution and
Representation of Glottalized Resonants in Salish [paper]
Gloria Mellesmoen and Suzanne Urbanczyk12th 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 CardosoEndangered Languages as Heritage Languages: Divergent Attainment and Phonological Regularization of Diminutive Reduplication in Comox-Sliammon (Salish) [slides]
Gloria Mellesmoen28th Manchester Phonology Meeting (mfm28), 2021
Words without Vowels, Reduplication, and Syllable Structure in Bella Coola (Nuxalk) [abstract]
Gloria MellesmoenWest 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 MellesmoenPapers and Conferences in 2020
Journal of the Acoustic Society of America (JASA) 147(4), 2020
Acoustically distinct and perceptually ambiguous: ʔayʔaǰuθəm (Salish) fricatives [paper]
Gloria Mellesmoen and Molly BabelWorking Papers of the Linguistics Circle of Victoria (WPLC) 30(1), 2020
A reanalysis of CV- reduplication in Comox-Sliammon [paper]
Gloria MellesmoenPapers for the International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages 55 (ICSNL 55 - August 2020)
Statives in ʔayʔaǰuθəm and St’át’imcets [paper]
Henry Davis, Marianne Huijsmans, and Gloria MellesmoenExtracting possessors in ʔayʔaǰuθəm (and beyond) [paper]
Henry Davis, Laura Griffin, Marianne Huijsmans, and Gloria MellesmoenThe 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 GriffinLaboratory Phonology 17 (LabPhon 17 - July 2020)
Modularity and the allophone in the Comox-Sliammon (Salish) vowel system [poster]
Gloria MellesmoenBerkeley 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 CardosoPaper 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 GickProceedings 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 Mellesmoen5th Workshop on Sound Change (WSC 5, 2019)
Acoustic evidence for a fricative-first path from Proto-Salish *t͡s to Comox-Sliammon /θ/ [poster]
Gloria MellesmoenProceedings 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 MellesmoenAnnual Canadian Linguistics Association Conference/Association canadienne de linguistique (CLA/ACL, 2019)
Pluractionality in ʔayʔaǰuθəm [talk slides and paper]
Gloria Mellesmoen and Marianne HuijsmansSpanish spirantization is not phonetic weakening: a modular view [poster]
Grace Purnomo, Gloria Mellesmoen, and Bryan GickSinn und Bedeutung 24 (SuB 24, 2019)
Composing distributive numerals: Evidence from Comox-Sliammon [paper]
Gloria Mellesmoen, Lisa Matthewson, and Henry DavisPapers for the Fifty-Fourth International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages (ICSNL 54, 2019)
Papers and Conferences in 2018
Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 40 (TWPL 40 - 2018)
A remedial path to merger: Merger by phonological transfer in British Columbia English [paper]
Gloria MellesmoenPapers for the 53rd International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages (ICSNL 53, 2018)
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 MellesmoenPapers and Conferences in 2017
Papers for the 52nd International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages (ICSNL 52, 2017)
Papers and Conferences in 2016
University of Toronto (MA, 2016)
Front Vowel Phonology of BC English [forum paper]
Gloria MellesmoenStrathy Student Working Papers on Canadian English (2016)
Discerning the sub-phonemic identity of pre-nasal /æ/ in British Columbia English [paper]
Gloria Mellesmoen2nd 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