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Measuring the Functional Load of Tonal Melodies

What do we actually need to count, when we count the funtional load of tone?

Comparing Relative Typing Difficulties Across Languages Using Corpora

A presentation of a methodology for using parallel corpora to compare typing experiences.

u̱t‑Maꞌin oral histories and narratives

A project collecting Narratives and wordlists from the various lects of the u̱t‑Maꞌin language.

Copyright and the Distributed Lexicon

I present on the risks associated with large community projects with regard to the implications of Copyright. I also present some risk mitigating strategies.

An Unlikely Retention

The (inter)dental approximant, which we symbolize as [ð̞], of the Philippine language Kagayanen has been claimed to be both phonemic and a retention from a proto language (Olson, et al. 2010)‡. It is the goal of this paper to demonstrate how the …

Repair Strategies Used with the Interdental Approximant in Some Philippine Languages

Note: The slides in this presentation were very similar to those used at ICAL-11 which was mostly the same presentation. This one took on a bit more of an Opimality Theory flavor.