Presentations

January 7, 2012. "Nonmodal phonation and monophthongization in Hainan Cham (Tsat)." 86th Annual Meeting of the Linguisstic Society of America. Portland, Oregon.

May 24 , 2011.  "Tonal variations in Anong." 161st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Seattle, Washington.

January 9, 2009.  "Tone, phonation and vowel quality in Hainan Cham." 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. San Francisco.

December 17, 2008. "Hainan Cham tone, phonation and IF0 ". Linguistics Colloquium, California State University, Chico.

April 18, 2008. "An acoustic study of English affricate sequences in the production of native speakers of Polish." Linguistics Colloquium. Department of English. University of North Texas.

August 10, 2007. "Phonetic variation in Anong vowels." 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Saarbrucken, Germany.

April 28, 2006. "An exploration of intrinsic F0 in Hainan Cham tones." Second International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL2006). Universite de La Rochelle, France.

January 18, 2006." Acoustic correlates of the contour tones of Hainan Cham." Tenth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (10-ICAL). Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, Philippines.

July 13, 2005. "Correlates of the tones of Tsat, an endangered language of Hainan." 12th International Congress on Sound and Vibration. Lisbon, Portugal.

March 26, 2004. "The use of phonation types in Javanese." Linguistics Colloquium, California State University, Chico.

August 7, 2003. "Phonetic realizations of Polish geminate affricates" (with Grazyna Demenko). 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Barcelona, Spain.

May 2, 2003. "Affricate gemination in the English of Polish speakers: A study in second language variability." 145th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Nashville, Tennessee.

October 11, 2002. "Phonetic realizations of geminate affricates: A study of production." Linguistics Colloquium, California State University, Chico.

June 4, 2002. "Perception and production of word-initial long fricatives in Polish". 143rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

May 3, 2002. "Maintaining consonantal length contrasts in ambiguous contexts: A study of the perception of Polish fricative geminates." Second International Conference on Contrast and Complexity in Phonology. University of Toronto, Canada.

April 4, 2002. "The recognition of geminates in ambiguous contexts in Polish." International Conference on Speech Prosody, Aix-en-Provence, France.

October 17, 2001." Language specific configurations and universal human concepts: the view from Milosz's poetry". Invited talk in Carole Oles's graduate poetry class. Department of English, California State University, Chico.

April 8, 2000. "Baba Malay word stress in Optimality Theory—a look at language shift." International Linguistic Association, 45th Annual Meeting, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

January 8, 2000. "An Optimality Theory approach to systems in conflict: Baba Malay word stress." Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics Annual Meeting in conjunction with Linguistics Society of America, Chicago.

October 29, 1999. "Reduplication as Echo: Bontok and Chumash." Linguistics Colloquium, California State University, Fresno.

May 23, 1999. "Language contact as reflected in Baba Malay forms of address and reference." Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, SEALS IX, Berkeley, California.

March 22, 1999. "Optimality Theory and Bontok reduplication." Invited talk in Chris Golston's graduate phonology class. Department of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno.

February 8, 1999. "From two registers to one: Evidence from Baba Malay verb morphology." Department of English, California Sate University Chico.

January 9, 1999. "The origin and development of Baba Malay: Some 19th century literary evidence." Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics Annual Meeting in conjunction with Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles, California.

October 23, 1998. "The aspectual system of Baba Malay: Exploring a case of language shift." Linguistics Colloquium, California State University, Fresno.

October 9, 1998. "An aspectual system in language shift: A case study of Baba Malay." Western Conference on Linguistics [WECOL] 10, Arizona State University.

October 2, 1998. "Language shift, discourse, and development of a proximal and a distal article in Baba Malay." New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English and Other Languages [NWAV(E)] 27, Athens, Georgia.

April 29, 1997. "Ini  and itu  in the literary Baba Malay of the late nineteenth century." Tuesday Seminar, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaii.

March 2, 1996. "Reduplication in Bontok revisited again." The Seventh Linguistics Society of Hawaii and HATESL Student Conference, University of Hawaii.