Research
Papers and Conferences in 2023
Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 20)
Mapping phonetic variation to phonological units: Feature sharing in Comox-Sliammon (Salish) [poster/paper]
Gloria Mellesmoen and Amanda CardosoThe quantitative phonetic analysis of languages with small accessible populations [poster/paper]
Márton Sóskuthy, Una Chow, Gloria Mellesmoen, and Emily Sadlier-BrownInternational Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages 58 (ICSNL 58)
A newly discovered reduplication pattern in St’át’imcets and its implications [slides/paper]
Henry Davis and Gloria Mellesmoen30th Manchester Phonology Meeting (mfm30)
Expanding the inventory of mora affixation: Diminutive reduplication in Lillooet [slides]
Gloria MellesmoenMoraic vs. X-Slot Syllabification: The Debate - Fringe Workshop at the 30th Manchester Phonology Meeting (mfm30)
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 MellesmoenWest Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 41
Monomoraic Syllables with Non-Moraic Vowels in Salish: The Structure of a Monomoraic Syllable in Comox-Sliammon Reduplication [Poster PDF]
Gloria MellesmoenPapers 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 for the International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages 57 (ICSNL 57)
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)
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)
Mora affixation and Halkomelem imperfective allomorphy [paper]
Gloria Mellesmoen and Suzanne UrbanczykStatives 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 MellesmoenThe relationship between pronunciation and orthography: Using acoustic analysis as a practical illustration of ʔayʔaǰuθəm (Comox-Sliammon) vowel quality [paper]
Gloria Mellesmoen and Marianne HuijsmansProceedings 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 Huijsmans5th 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
Frontiers in Communication 3, 2018
Prior pronunciation knowledge bootstraps word learning [paper]
Khia Johnson, Gloria Mellesmoen, Roger Lo, and Bryan GickToronto 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 MellesmoenTo copy or not to copy, that is the question: Regarding consonant-vowel interactions in ʔayʔaǰuθəm imperfective reduplication [paper]
Marianne Huijsmans, Gloria Mellesmoen, and Suzanne UrbancyzkPapers and Conferences in 2017
Papers for the 52nd International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages (ICSNL 52, 2017)
Northwest Linguistics Conference, (NWLC 33, 2017)
STRUT-Raising in British Columbia English: Evidence for a Parallel Canadian Shift [slides]
Gloria MellesmoenPapers 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]
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