UVic – Linguistics 486 projects (Spring 2019)

The following are posters from collaborative research projects on different aspects of hul’q’umi’num’ phonetics, conducted in the context of UVic’s Linguistics 486: Experimental Phonetics, offered in the Spring 2019. Each research team included at least two UVic students and at least one hul’q’umi’num’ (HLA) student.

If you are interested in accessing any of the LING 486 students’ final papers, please contact Sonya Bird.

The first entry is a summary of the main findings of all the projects.

Research ProjectResearch Team * = HLA student
486 Summary Findings
An acoustic and articulatory investigation of the voiceless coronal fricatives /th s lh/ in Hul’q’umi’num’*Rae Anne Claxton Baker
Sandra MacGregor
Kira Mauriks
*Marlene Tommy
A comparison of the ejective~plain and uvular~velar stop contrast in L1 and L2 speakers of Hul’q’umi’num’.
Emily Bailey
*Rae Anne Claxton Baker
Renee Dorval
Paul Garewal
An acoustic analysis of stress in multisyllabic words of Hul’q’umi’num’.Marina Bridal
*Evangeline Guerin
Jisu Lee
Examining intonation in Hul’q’umi’num’wh-question intonation.Isabel Churton
Kathryn Harder
*Gina Salazar
CCConsonant CCClusters: The perception of complex onsets in Hul’q’umi’num’.Stephanie Crowe
Emily Fairbank
*Thomas Johnny
Conflict in initial cluster production in Hul’q’umi’num’.*Thomas Johnny
Marika Johnson
Roza Kalashnikoff
Giuliana Reniero
English speakers’ perception of word-final glottalization in Hul’q’umi’num’.*Kweyulutstun Thomas Jones
Melissa Leger
Julia Lister