Heritage: Conference: Athabaskan Prosody/Athabaskan Language

[Scott McGinnis]

Heritage Languages Listserve
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Date:  Tue, 9 May 2000 14:05:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:  "S. Hargus" <sharon at u.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/


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                      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.

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