12th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics

The 12th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics is taking place from June 14 through 18 online, hosted by the University of Oslo. We have several current and former department members giving talks:

• Elan Dresher (faculty), Daniel Currie Hall (Ph.D. 2007, now at St. Mary's University), and Sara Mackenzie (Ph.D. 2009, now at Memorial University of Newfoundland): "The role of contrastive feature hierarchies in the establishment of phoneme inventories."
• Gloria Mellesmoen (MA 2016, now at the University of British Columbia): "Endangered languages as heritage languages: Divergent attainment and phonological regularization of diminutive reduplication in Comox-Sliammon (Salish)."
• Gloria Mellesmoen (MA 2016, now at the University of British Columbia) and Amanda Cardoso (University of British Columbia): "Investigating phonemic inventories without minimal pairs: Defining contrast in the vowel inventory of Comox-Sliammon (ʔayʔaǰuθəm)."