Appointment
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| August 2011- |
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
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Qualifications
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| 2011 |
Ph.D Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dissertation: Directional reference, discourse, and landscape in Ahtna. [view]
Advisor: Marianne Mithun.
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| 2006 |
M.A. Linguistics, Wayne State University.
Thesis: Spatial differentiation as middle voice motivation in Dena'ina Athabaskan iterative verbs. Advisor: Martha Ratliff.
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| 1994 |
B.F.A. Sculpture, University of Michigan.
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Fellowships and Awards
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| 2011
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Isaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Alberta (declined).
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| 2010-2011
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Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities, University of California.
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| 2009-2010
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Graduate Humanities Research Program Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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| 2007-2008
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Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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| 2006-2007
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Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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| 2006-2011
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Linguistics Department Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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| 2006
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Connaught Scholarship, University of Toronto (declined).
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Language Documentation
Fieldwork experience:
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Ahtna (Athabascan), Alaska: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.
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Deg Xinag (Athabascan), Alaska: 2009, 2010.
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Dena'ina (Athabascan), Alaska: 2005, 2006, 2007.
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Kannada (Dravidian), California: 2007, 2008.
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Khalkha Mongolian, field methods course: 2006-7.
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Kuman (Papuan), Papua New Guinea: 2012; Hawai‘i: 2012; field methods course (instructor): 2011-12.
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Ottawa (Algonquian), field methods course: 2004.
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Publications
Edited volumes:
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| 2010
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Berez, Andrea L., Jean Mulder and Daisy Rosenblum (eds.). Fieldwork and linguistic analysis in Indigenous languages of the Americas. Journal of Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 2. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. [view]
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| 2007
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Kari, James and Andrea L. Berez (eds.). Inland Dena'ina Keywords: Lime Village Dialect, by Helen Dick. Anchorage: Alaska Native Heritage Center.
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| 2007
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Berez, Andrea L., Suzanne Gessner, Leslie Saxon and Siri Tuttle (eds.). Alaska Native Language Center Working Papers 6: Working Papers in Athabascan Linguistics. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center.
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Refereed journal articles:
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| 2012 |
Berez, Andrea L., Taña Finnesand and Karen Linnell. C'ek'aedi Hwnax, the Ahtna Regional Linguistic and Ethnographic Archive. Language Documentation & Conservation 6:236-251.
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| 2011 |
Berez, Andrea L. Prosody as a genre distinguishing feature in Ahtna: A quantitative approach. Functions of Language 18(2): 210-236 [view]
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| 2010
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Berez, Andrea L. and Stefan Th. Gries. Correlates to middle marking in Dena'ina iterative verbs. International Journal of American Linguistics 76(1): 145-165. [view]
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Refereed book chapters:
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| 2012
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Thieberger, Nicholas and Andrea L. Berez. Linguistic data management. In Thieberger, Nicholas (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork, 90-118. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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| 2006
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Berez, Andrea L. and Gary Holton. Finding the locus of best practice: Technology training in an Alaskan language community. In Barwick, Linda and Nicholas Thieberger (eds.), Sustainable Data From Digital Fieldwork, 69-86. Sydney: Sydney University Press. [view]
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| 2006
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Holton, Gary, Andrea L. Berez and Sadie Williams. Building the Dena'ina language archive. In Dyson, L., M. Hendricks and S. Grant (eds.). Information Technology and Indigenous People, 205-209. Hershey, Pennsylvania: Idea Group.
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Refereed conference proceedings:
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| 2009
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Applebaum, Ayla B. and Andrea L. Berez. A theory is only as good as the data: Casting a wide net in Kabardian and Ahtna documentation. In Peter K. Austin, Oliver Bond, Monik Charette, David Nathan and Peter Sells (eds.), Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 2, 29-38. London: School of Oriental and African Studies. [view]
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| 2009
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Berez, Andrea L. and Stefan Th. Gries. In defense of corpus linguistics: A behavioral profile analysis to polysemous get in English. In Steven Moran, Darren S. Tanner and Michael Scanlon (eds.), Proceedings of the 2008 Northwest Linguistics Conference, 157-166. Seattle, WA: Department of Linguistics. [view]
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Reviews:
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| 2010
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Berez, Andrea L. Review of Tanacross Learners' Dictionary: Dihthâad Xt'een Iin Anděg' Dínahtlǎa', compiled by Irene Arnold, Rick Thoman, and Gary Holton, edited by Gary Holton. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center. International Journal of American Linguistics 76(3): 397-400. [view]
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| 2007
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Berez, Andrea L. Software review of EUDICO Linguistic Annotator (ELAN). Language Documentation and Conservation 1(2): 283-9. [online, pdf]
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| 2003
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Berez, Andrea L. Book notice for Multilingualism in Italy Past and Present, by A. Lepschy & A. Tosi. Diachronica 20(2): 386.
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Online publications:
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| 2005
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Dena'ina Language Archive and Dena'ina Qenaga website.
[http://qenaga.org] [with Gary Holton & Sadie Williams]
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| 2005
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From cassette to easy-access software: Dena'ina. E-MELD School of Best Practice website.
[http://emeld.org/school/case/denaina/index.html]
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| 2004
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Shoebox legacy data: Mocoví. E-MELD School of Best Practice website.
[http://emeld.org/school/case/mocovi/index.html]
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Non-refereed publications:
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| 2010
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Daisy Rosenblum and Andrea L. Berez. Introduction: The Boasian tradition and contemporary practice in linguistic fieldwork in the Americas. In Andrea L. Berez, Jean Mulder, and Daisy Rosenblum (eds.), Fieldwork and Linguistic Analysis in Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Journal of Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 2, 1-8. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. [view]
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| 2009 |
Holton, Gary, Andrea L. Berez and Sadie Williams. Dena'ina Archiving, Training & Access. UNESCO Register of Good Practices in Language Preservation. Paris: UNESCO Endangered Languages Programme. Online: http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php.
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| 2007
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Berez, Andrea L. Middle marking in Dena'ina iterative verbs. In Berez, et. al. (eds.). Alaska Native Language Center Working Papers 6, p. 21-29. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center.
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Grants
Primary investigator:
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| 2012
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US National Science Foundation, Documenting Endangered Languages Program: "Workshop proposal: Master Class series at the 3rd International Conference of Language Documentation and Conservation."
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| 2010
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UCSB Department of Linguistics research minigrant: "Mapping Ahtna travel narratives with Google Earth Pro."
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| 2009
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Pacific Rim Research Program Graduate Research Grant, University of California: "Discourse, Landscape and Spatial Cognition: Documenting Ahtna, an Endangered Language of Alaska."
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| 2008
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Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research, American Philosophical Society: "Documenting the discourse structure of Ahtna."
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| 2008
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Jacobs Research Fund Grant, Whatcomb Museum: "Dissertation fieldwork: A corpus of Ahtna Athabaskan discourse."
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| 2008
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Pacific Rim Research Program Minigrant, University of California: "Preparatory fieldtrip to Alaska for a dissertation on Ahtna discourse."
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| 2007
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Robert Oswalt Fund for Endangered Languages, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California Berkeley, for fieldwork in Alaska.
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| 2007
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Jacobs Research Fund Grant, Whatcomb Museum: "Outer Inlet Dena'ina conversation pilot project."
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Primary grant writer:
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| 2009
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Institute of Museum and Library Services: "Ahtna Tape Digitization Project," awarded to the Ahtna Heritage Foundation.
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| 2009
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First Nations Development Institute Native Youth and Culture Fund: "Yuuł Tene" culture camp improvement grant, awarded to the Ahtna Heritage Foundation.
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Presentations
Invited presentations:
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| 2012a, b, c
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"Lexicalization, narrative structure, and Ahtna directionals: Observations using GIS". University of Melbourne Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, May 11. Australian National University School of Culture, History and Language, June 22. La Trobe University Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, June 29.
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| 2011a
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"On polysynthesis in discourse: Lexicalization and grammaticalization in Ahtna directional morphology". University of California, Santa Barbara Interdisciplinary Humanities Center's "Geographies of Place" series. May 26.
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| 2011b
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"Lexicalization and discourse vividness in Ahtna directionals: Observations using GIS". Language in Space: Geographic Perspectives on Language Diversity and Diachrony (conference), Boulder, CO. July 23-24.
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| 2010
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"'Over the hump of the world': Work-in-progress on semantic change and noncompositionality in Ahtna directionals." University of Alberta Language Documentation Research Cluster. September 24.
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| 2009a
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"Linguistic fieldwork: Getting started as a student." University of Southern California Undergraduate Linguistics Group. January 27. [view]
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| 2009b, c
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"Beyond Frog Stories: Speakers' attention to path and location in Ahtna discourse." University of Melbourne Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, July 24. University of Sydney Department of Linguistics Seminar Series, July 27. [view]
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"Indexing genre in Ahtna: A quantitative look into the intonation of chatting and storytelling." Eastern Michigan University Linguistics Program, December 8. [view]
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| 2008
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"Mapping grammar in discourse: A proposal for exploring Ahtna Athabaskan directionals with GIS." Institute for Language and Information Technology, Eastern Michigan University. March 25. [view]
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| 2007
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"Technology in an endangered language setting." University of Chicago Department of Anthropology. April 12.
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Other presentations:
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| 2013
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"Simple GIS in documentation and description: Google Earth as a tool for the visualization and analysis of spatially-themed language use." Part of the "Multimedia Linguistic Documentation and Analysis" special joint session of the Linguistic Society of America and the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, MA. January 3-6.
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| 2012
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"Confessions of a former LINGUIST Lister: Technology training and professional development at the discipline's largest online resource." Part of the "Tech tools: Increasing technology training in the curriculum of graduate students in linguistics" panel, sponsored by the Linguistic Society of America Technology Advisory Committee. Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, OR. January 5-8.
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| 2011a
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"Two Ahtna intonation unit cues: Syllable pacing and pitch reset." Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Pittsburgh, PA. January 6-9. [view]
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"Toward a typology of intonation unit cues." Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA. January 6-9. (with Jean Mulder) [view]
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| 2011c
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"Mapping spatial grammar in discourse: Analyzing Ahtna directionals with 3D GIS technology." Part of organized session "Maps and map making in linguistic research" at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA. January 6-9.
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| 2011d
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"International standards of a local scale: Building the Ahtna linguistic and ethnographic archive." 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. February 11-13. (with Karen Linnell and Taña Finnesand) [view]
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2011e
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"Data ownership in Indigenous Alaska: A model for decentralized linguistic archiving." Sustainable Data From Digital Research: Humanities Perspecitves on Digital Scholarship, University of Melbourne. December 12-14.
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| 2010
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"Introducing C'ek'aedi Hwnax: The Ahtna regional linguistic and ethnographic archive." Poster presentation at the Athabascan Languages Conference, University of Oregon. June 26-27. (with Karen Linnell and Tana Finnesand)
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| 2009a
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"Preserving geolinguistic documentation: From paper maps to GIS at the ANLC." Part of special session "Advanced dissemination and linguistic applications of geocoded field data." 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. March 12-14. (with Gary Holton, Hunter Lockwood and Stephanie Morse) [view/listen]
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| 2009b
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"Software demonstration: CuPED (Customizable Presentation of ELAN Documents)." 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. March 12-14. (with Christopher Cox) [view/listen]
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| 2009c
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"Intonation and intonation units in Ahtna oral performance." Part of "Unlocking oral performance in Indigenous languages" panel. 11th International Pragmatics Association Conference, Melbourne, Australia. July 12-17. [view]
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| 2009d
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"A theory is only as good as the data: Casting a wide net in Kabardian and Ahtna documentation." Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 2, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK. 13-14 November. (with Ayla Applebaum) [view]
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| 2008a
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"Offering multimedia training in the speaker community." Part of Open Language Archive Community tutorial "Mobilizing linguistic resources within speaker communities." Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, IL. January 3-6. [view]
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| 2008b
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"In defense of corpus-based methods: A behavioral profile analysis of polysemous get in English." Northwest Linguistics Conference, University of Washington, Seattle. May 3-4. (with Stefan Th. Gries) [view]
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| 2008c
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"The importance of technological standards and training in language documentation." Workshop on Language Documentation and Language Description at the 23rd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Uppsala, Sweden. September 30-October 1. (with Nicholas Thieberger) [view]
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| 2008d
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"Middle voice marking in Dena’ina iteratives: How syntax and semantics interact." 9th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse & Language, Cleveland, OH. October 18-20. (with Stefan Th. Gries) [view]
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| 2007a
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"Spatial differentiation as middle voice motivation in Dena'ina Athabaskan iterative verbs." Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Anaheim, CA. January 4-7.
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| 2007b
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"How do I do it in XML?! Using ELAN to create structured linguistic data." UCSB linguistics department colloquium series, Santa Barbara, CA. February 15.
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| 2006a
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"Using digital audio resources for language documentation and revitalization." 32nd Bilingual Multicultural Education/Equity Conference, Fairbanks, AK. February 8-10. (with Gary Holton and Sadie Williams) [view]
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| 2006b
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"Creating annotated corpora at the Alaska Native Language Center." Ethnographic E-Research Annotation Conference, Melbourne, Australia. February 15-17. (with Gary Holton)
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| 2006c
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"Dena'ina Athabaskan nu- middle voice verbs: A closer look." Leipzig Students’ Conference in Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. March 25-26.
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| 2006d
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"Dena'ina language and community online: Qenaga.org and Kahtnuht'ana Qenaga." Athabascan Languages Conference, Yellowknife, NWT, Canada. June 13-15. (with Alan Boraas, Gary Holton, Sadie Williams, James Kari, Helen Aristar-Dry and Veronica Grondona) [view]
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| 2006e
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"Designing community-tech workflows: A field linguist's guide to putting language technology into the hands of speakers." E-MELD Workshop on Tools and Standards, Lansing, MI. June 20-22. (with Gary Holton) [view]
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"Expectations and results of community-based language technology training in Alaska." Native American Indigenous Languages study group, University of California, Santa Barbara. November 20. (with Alan Boraas)
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| 2006g
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"Finding the locus of best practice: Technology training in an Alaskan language community." Sustainable Data From Digital Fieldwork conference, Sydney, Australia. December 4-6. (with Gary Holton) [listen]
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| 2005a
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"Dena'ina Archiving, Training and Access: A project report." Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Oakland, CA. January 6-9. (with Gary Holton and Sadie Williams)
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| 2005b
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"Integrating Dena'ina culture and language into the curriculum." 31st Bilingual Multicultural Education/Equity Conference, Anchorage, AK. February 9-11. (with Gary Holton, Donita Peter and Alan Boraas)
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| 2005c
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"DATA: making language materials both archival and accessible." Poster presentation at the First Conference on the Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America, Salt Lake City, UT. April 7-10.
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| 2004a
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"IPA, Unicode, and word processing for linguists." Wayne State University Symposium on Technological Tools for Linguists, Detroit, MI. February 10.
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| 2004b
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"The typology of noun classes and definite articles." Wayne State University Student Colloquium, Detroit, MI. April 23.
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| 2004c
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"OntoElan: Linking the GOLD ontology to linguistic annotations." E-MELD Workshop on Linguistic Databases and Best Practice, Detroit, MI. July 15-18. (with Anthony Aristar, Yu Deng, Artem Chemboko, Shiyong Lu and Farhad Fotouhi)
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Visiting Scholar Tenure
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Institute for Language and Information Technology, Eastern Michigan University. Project: "Applying GIS to Ahtna Discourse Data." August-September.
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Language Technology Experience
Language archive management:
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| 2011-present
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Director of Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Enthographic Archive.
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| 2009-present
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Consultant to C'ekaedi Hwmax linguistic and ethnogaphic digital archive at the Ahtna Heritage Foundation, Copper Center, AK.
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Documentary research tool proficiency (alphabetical):
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Adobe Creative Suite, audio/video editing software (various), ColdFusion, CSS, ELAN, FileMaker Pro, Flash, HTML, Javascript,
R, RSS, SQL, Transcriber, XML, XSLT.
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Tool design:
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| 2008-present
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CuPED (Customizable Presentation of Elan Documents): Presentation format creation tool for in-community use with Elan text-audio and text-video alignments. (with Christopher Cox)[website]
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| 2004
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OntoElan: Links ELAN annotations to the General Ontology for Linguistic Description (GOLD). Team member.
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Consulting:
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| 2007-2010
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Research Technician for Ahtna Texts grant. Creation of interactive multimedia CD-ROMs of archived Ahtna language recordings, transcriptions and translations (NSF grant 0553831, PI Siri Tuttle).
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Digitization of indigenous toponym maps at the Alaska Native Language Center, Fairbanks.
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Consultant on the creation of local digital archives of linguistic and ethnographic recordings at Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge (Tok, AK) and Ya Ne Dah Ah School (Chickaloon Village, AK).
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Development of XML schema for system of discourse transcriptions as developed by John W. Du Bois (UCSB).
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Consultant for LL-MAP, an NSF-funded project of the Institute for Language and Information Technology, Eastern Michigan University.
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Consultant for Multi-Tree, an NSF-funded project of the Institute for Language and Information Technology, Eastern Michigan University.
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Cataloging of Dena'ina language recording collection for the Alaska Native Heritage Center, Anchorage, AK.
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Research assistantships:
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| 2004-2006
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Research assistant for Dena'ina Archiving, Training and Access (DATA) grant. Responsibilities included development and maintenance of a digital archive of Dena'ina Athabaskan language materials, including Oracle database design and user interfaces; development and maintenance of Qenaga.org, a website designed to serve as a community access point for Dena'ina heritage speakers; training of Dena'ina community members in the use of language technology; conducting linguistic fieldwork (NSF-OPP grant 0326805, PIs Helen Aristar-Dry and Gary Holton).
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Research assistant for the LINGUIST List. Responsibilities included posting conference announcements and calls for papers to listserv of 18,000+ subscribers; maintaining conference database; maintaining LINGUIST List web pages; developing web pages for the E-MELD School of Best Practice (NSF-SES grant 1099652, PI Helen Aristar-Dry).
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Research assistant for Walter Fitzherbert Edwards, Wayne State University. Topic: African American Vernacular English in Detroit.
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Additional multimedia linguistic projects:
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| 2007
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Development of Nay'dinii'aa Na' Kenaege' Ahtna Athabaskan language website.
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| 2007
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Editor for Kahtnuht'ana Qenaga/The Kenai People's Language website by Alan Boraas and Michael Christian.
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| 2006
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Development of Bac'its'aadi/Salmon Boy Story. Time-aligned Ahtna stories on interactive CD-ROM. Pilot project. (with Siri Tuttle)
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| 2004
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Gwich'in Athabaskan Verb Paradigms. Interactive CD-ROM. (with Kathy Sikorski and Sadie Williams)
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Service to the Profession
Adivising/Supervision:
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Editorial service:
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| 2011-present
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Technology Review Editor, Language Documentation & Conservation.
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Reviewing:
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Reviewer of grant proposals for the US National Science Foundation (Programs: Documenting Endangered Languages (1), Arctic Social Sciences (1).
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Reviewer for Language Documentation & Conservation.
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Conference service:
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| 2013
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Chair of the 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. February 28-March 3.
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| 2012
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Scientific committee member of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europea, Stockholm. August 29-September 1.
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Two organized sessions: "GIS 1: Methods and case studies in geographically-referenced language documentation" and "GIS 2: Advanced dissemination and linguistic applications of geocoded field data." 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. March 12-14.
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Workshop/Working Group Participation
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| 2009
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Bootcamp: "Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R." UC Santa Barbara. August 5-10.
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RELISH Workshop (Rendering Endangered Language Lexicons Interoperable
through Standards Harmonization) workshop on dictionary interoperability. Institute for Language and Information Technology, Eastern Michigan University. December 14-16.
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| 2006
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Ahtna Language Workshop. Gulkana, AK. February 15-16.
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Spring School on Linguistic Diversity. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. March 20-28.
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Dena'ina Language Institute. Kenai, AK. May 30-June 16.
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Working group on Resource Transformation at the E-MELD Workshop on Tools and Standards. East Lansing, MI. June 20-22.
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Working group on Archiving and Fieldwork at the Digital Tools Summit in Linguistics. East Lansing, MI. June 22-23.
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| 2005
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Dena'ina Language Institute. Kenai, AK. May 30-June 16.
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| 2005
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Cornell Conference on Language and Poverty (received travel grant). Ithaca, NY. October 14-16.
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| 2005
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Dena'ina Language Workshop. Nondalton, AK. November 4-6.
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Membership of Professional Organizations
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| Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (since 2004)
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| Linguistic Society of America (since 2005)
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| Association for Linguistic Typology (since 2006)
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| Alaska Anthropological Association (since 2007)
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| International Pragmatics Association (since 2008)
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