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SSILA 2009 Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) in San Francisco Jan 8-11 featured several presentations relevant to Alaska Native languages and related languages. The titles give you some idea of issues of current concern to linguistic researchers. More information may be available by contacting the individual authors directly (try searching the university websites for contact information).
  • Acoustic correlates of stress in the Inland dialect of Dena’ina Athabascan (Siri Tuttle, University of Alaska, Fairbanks)

  • The phonetics of tone in two dialects of Dane-zaa (Julia Colleen Miller, University of Washington)

  • A H+L% boundary tone in Athabaskan (Sharon Hargus, University of Washington)

  •  Landscape and landscape at the intersection of Athabascan and Eskimo (Gary Holton, University of Alaska Fairbanks)

  • The morphosyntax of Navajo comparatives and the degree argument (Elizabeth Bogal­Allbritten, Swarthmore)

  • Aspiration as phonation: An acoustic analysis of aspirated affricates in the Dene languages (Joyce McDonough, University of Rochester; Jordan Lachler, Sealaska Heritage Institute; Sally Rice, University of Alberta)

  • Coordination in Pribil of Islands Aleut (Anna Berge, University of Alaska Fairbanks)

  • A contrastive feature account of Inuit ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ /i/ (Richard Compton and B. Elan Dresher, University of Toronto

  • Navajo degree constructions and the decompositional analysis of gradable predicates (Elizabeth Bogal­Allbritten, Swarthmore)