LINGUIST List 11.1054

Wed May 10 2000

Confs: Athabaskan Prosody/Athabaskan Language

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

Please keep conferences announcement as short as you can; LINGUIST will not post conference announcements which in our opinion are excessively long.

Directory

  • S. Hargus, Workshop on Athabaskan Prosody and Athabaskan Language Conference

    Message 1: Workshop on Athabaskan Prosody and Athabaskan Language Conference

     Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 14:05:04 -0700 (PDT)
    From: S. Hargus <sharonu.washington.edu>
    Subject: Workshop on Athabaskan Prosody and Athabaskan Language Conference


    Please note: the workshop will take place on Friday, June 9, as planned, but the conference will now take place on only Saturday, June 10.

    The program can also be found on the conference web site:

    http://faculty.washington.edu/sharon/ALC2000/

    ***************************************************************************

    Workshop on Athabaskan Prosody Moricetown, B.C. June 9, 2000

    Program

    Presentations are 30 minutes with 10 minutes for questions.

    9 Welcoming remarks: ____________ (local person), Tonia Mills (UNBC)

    9:15-9:55 Jeff Leer, University of Alaska Fairbanks: How stress shapes the stem in Athabaskan

    9:55-10:35 Sharon Hargus, University of Washington: Quality and quantity issues in Witsuwit'en word stress

    Break

    10:50-11:30 Bill Poser, Carrier Sekani Tribal Council and UBC: An acoustic study of Dakelh (Carrier) pitch accent

    11:30-12:10 Gary Holton, University of Alaska Fairbanks: Tone and intonation in Tanacross

    Lunch break

    1:30-2:10 Suzanne Gessner, University of British Columbia: Properties of tone in Chipewyan

    2:10-2:50 Siri Tuttle, UCLA: Locations and realizations of prominence in Athabaskan languages

    Break

    3:10-3:50 John Alderete, University of British Columbia: Word level prosody in Tahltan, a historical and phonetic exploration

    3:50-4:15 Discussion (Michael Krauss, University of Alaska Fairbanks, invited discussant)

    Athabaskan Language Conference Moricetown, B.C. June 10, 2000

    Program

    Presentations are 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. In the morning, two sessions will be run concurrently, one set of primarily academic presentations and another set of primarily pedagogical presentations. Some slots for pedagogical presentations are still available.

    9 Welcoming remarks

    9:15-9:45 Sally Rice, University of Alberta: Posture and existence predicates in Dene Sounline (Chipewyan): Lexical and semantic density as a function of the STAND/SIT/LIE continuum

    9:15-9:45 (Language program report)

    9:45-10:15 Ted Fernald, Swarthmore: Athabaskan Satellites and ASL Ion-Morphs

    9:45-10:15 (Language program report)

    Break

    10:30-11:00 Gunnar Olafur Hansson, University of California Berkeley: Chilcotin Vowel Flattening and Sibilant Harmony: Diachronic Cues to a Synchronic Puzzle

    10:30-11:00 Lynda Holland, Holland Educational Consulting: Lost and Found: The Dene Elder's Project, Voices from the Past

    11:00-11:30 Edward Vajda, Western Washington University, Ket verb morphology and its parallels with Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit: Possible evidence of a distant genetic link

    11:00-11:30 (Language program report)

    11:30-12 Sally Rice et al., Cold Lake Chipewyan revitalization project

    Lunch break

    1:30-2 Alfred Joseph, Tse-Kya (Hagwilget) Band: The role of the Witsuwit'en and Gitksan languages in Delgamuukw v. The Queen

    Multi-media fair: 2-4:30

    John Alderete and Tanya Bob, University of British Columbia: Transcriber 1.4.2 as a tool for annotating large sound files in Tahltan

    Eric Lockard, Salina Bookshelf: The Navajo Language: A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary on CD ROM

    J. Randolph Radney, Trinity Western University and the Canada Institute of Linguistics: Overview of LinguaLinks

    5:30 Farewell feast (All clans feast/barbecue, Moricetown campground)

    Sunday, June 11

    No formal conference events are scheduled. However, the local organizing committee will be organizing a community tour and an interpretive walk to Moricetown Lake.

    ____________________________________________________________________________ Sharon Hargus Department of Linguistics (206) 685-4263 University of Washington FAX (206) 685-7978 Box 354340 Seattle WA 98195-4340 sharonu.washington.edu