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    • Acoustic characteristics of Deg Xinag fricatives 

      Hargus, Sharon; Levow, Gina-Anne; Wright, Richard (2021-03-31)
      This article presents an acoustic study of the contrast between seven fricatives in two positions (before [a], after [a]) using data from 8 speakers of Deg Xinag, an Athabaskan language of Alaska. An initial set of 52 ...

    • Collecting and using race and ethnicity information in linguistic studies 

      Squizzero, Robert; Horst, Martin; Wassink, Alicia Beckford; Panicacci, Alex; Jensen, Monica; Moroz, Anna Kristina; Conrod, Kirby; Bender, Emily M. (2021-10-28)
      Despite being regarded by some as the most humanistic of the social sciences, linguistics has been criticized for its undertheorized application of the notions of race and ethnicity. This white paper is written for practicing ...

    • Characteristics of non-pre-vocalic ejectives in Northwest Sahaptin 

      Hargus, Sharon; Beavert, Virginia (2021-10-31)
      Northwest Sahaptin, like many languages of the Pacific Northwest, has a contrast between ejective and non-ejective stops and affricates before voiceless consonants and word-finally. This article presents the results of an ...