Graduate Students

 

Updated July 2022

The CCLAS project is not at the present time able to accommodate any graduate students in the research team. Graduate students have however, until recently, worked with the CCLAS research team and have contributed in a number of ways to the advancement of knowledge. Most obviously, their primary concerns have been their personal research projects, undertaken in partial fulfillment of M.A. or Ph.D degrees. For a list of these works we refer you to Graduate theses and manuscripts.

Graduate students also have also presented their research, or work they are collaboratively involved in, at conferences, and as published works. A complete list of CCLAS publications and presentations can be found (with downloads where available) at publications and presentations. Below we list only the publications and presentations which involve graduate students (whose names appear in boldface type).

CCLAS publications by or with the participation of graduate students

  • Knee, Sarah. 2014. "Vowel devocalization in Northern East Cree." The Canadian Journal of Linguistics 59:3, pp. 303-338
  • Thorburn, Jennifer. 2014. "Acquiring Northern East Cree: A case study". In Papers of the Forty-Second Algonquian Conference, eds. M. Macaulay & J.R. Valentine. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, pp. 263-280.
  • Dyck, Carrie, Alethea Power and Kevin Terry. 2014. "Syncope in East Cree: Phonological or phonetic?" In Papers of the Forty-Second Algonquian Conference, eds. M. Macaulay & J.R. Valentine. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, pp. 120-133.
  • Brittain, Julie & Sara Acton. 2014. "The lexicon-syntax interface: Root semantics as an indirect determinant of intransitive verb syntax in Cree". International Journal of American Linguistics 80:4, pp. 475-506.
  • Rose, Yvan, Julie Brittain, Carrie Dyck and Erin Swain. 2010. "The Acquisition of Metrical Opacity: A Longitudinal Case Study from Northern East Cree." In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (volume 2), edited by Katie Franich, Kate M. Iserman, and Lauren L. Keil. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, pp. 339-350.

CCLAS presentations by or with the participation of graduate students

Academic

  • 2019. Henke, Ryan E. and Julie Brittain. "Connecting language acquisition to language documentation and beyond: The CCLAS project and Northern East Cree." The 6th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), Honolulu, HI., March 3.
  • 2018. Henke, Ryan E. "The acquisition of obviation in Northern East Cree: Evidence from possessive constructions." The 50th Algonquian Conference. Edmonton, Alberta. October 27.
    2018. Henke, Ryan E. "A preliminary analysis of the acquisition of obviation in Northern East Cree." Language Acquisition Group, University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Honolulu, HI, October 5.
  • 2018. Henke, Ryan E. "The acquisition of Northern East Cree: Possessives and demonstratives." Department of Linguistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland. May 23
    2018. Henke, Ryan E. "The development of possession in the L1 acquisition of Northern East Cree." Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Salt Lake City, UT, January 5.
  • 2017. Henke, Ryan E. "Acquiring possessive constructions in Northern East Cree." The 49th Algonquian Conference, Université de Montréal, Montreal, October 29.
  • 2017. Henke, Ryan E. "A preliminary analysis of the acquisition of possession in Northern East Cree." Language Acquisition Group, University of HawaiÊ»i at Mānoa. Honolulu, HI, October 6.
  • 2013. Pile, Stephanie. "Cree-English code mixing in child and child-directed speech: A case study from Northern East Cree." Aldrich Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Memorial University. April 27.
  • 2012. Julie Brittain & Sara Johansson. "The expression of Algonquian subject constraints as teleological capability." Department of Linguistics Seminar Series, Memorial University, November 21.
  • 2012. Johansson, Sara. "From unanalyzed chunks to grammatical discovery: A case study of passive acquisition in Northern East Cree." Brown Bag Series, University of Calgary Department of Linguistics, November 14.
  • 2012. Brittain, Julie & Sara Johansson. "Deriving sentience effects from the interaction of syntax and (real-world) semantics." The 44th Algonquian Conference, University of Chicago, October 28.
  • 2012. Knee, Sarah. "When is a cluster not a cluster? A Northern East Cree case study". The 44th Algonquian Conference, University of Chicago, October 27.
  • 2012. Johansson, Sara. "Acquiring Northern East Cree verbal morphology: Evidence from inchoative verbs." The 2012 meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Wilfred Laurier University, May 26.
  • 2012. Johansson, Sara & Julie Brittain. "East Cree verbs of emission: A unified analysis of the inchoative (-piyi)." Department of Linguistics Seminar Series, Memorial University, March 12.
  • 2012. Johansson, Sara. "Verbs of (sound) emission in Algonquian: A comparison of subjects in Blackfoot and Cree." Aldrich Interdisciplinary Conference, Memorial University, March 2.
  • 2012. Johansson, Sara & Julie Brittain. "The lexical semantics of (Northern East) Cree verbs of emission: a unified analysis of –piyi." 86th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas), Portland, Oregon, January 7.
  • 2010. Dyck, Carrie, Alethea Power, Kevin Terry & Kelly Logan. "Syncope in East Cree: Phonological or Phonetic?" The 42nd Algonquian Conference, Memorial University, October 25.
  • 2010. Thorburn, Jennifer. "On the acquisition of segments and syllable types in Northern East Cree: A case study." The 42nd Algonquian Conference, Memorial University, October 25.
  • 2010. Brittain, Julie, Yvan Rose & Kevin Terry. "Grammatical analysis in early morphological development: Evidence from (Northern East) Cree." The Canadian Linguistics Association 2010 meeting (Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities), Concordia University, May 29.
  • 2009. Rose, Yvan, Julie Brittain, Carrie Dyck & Erin Swain. "The acquisition of metrical opacity: A longitudinal case study from Northern East Cree." Poster presentation, Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 34, Boston University, November 6.
  • 2009. Brittain, Julie & Kevin Terry. "First Language Acquisition in Cree: An overview of verbal morphology and preliminary observations on its emergence." (Invited talk), to the Language Computation and Evolution Research Unit, The University of Edinburgh, July 28.
  • 2007. Brittain, Julie, Marguerite MacKenzie, Will Oxford, Carrie Dyck & Yvan Rose. "Preliminary observations on Acquiring (East) Cree as a First Language." The 39th Algonquian Conference, York University, October 18-21.

Community

  • 2012. Johansson, Sara. "Learning Cree as a first language: Words before grammar". October edition of Waaskimaashtaau, Chisasibi, Quebec.
  • 2012. Johansson, Sara. "Learning words before learning grammar: (Part of) the story of a child learning Cree as a first language." Public lecture, James Bay Eeyou School Library, Chisasibi, June 7.
  • 2011. Brittain, Julie, Sara Johansson, & Yvan Rose. "How children learn language and what we know about Cree." Public lecture, Library, James Bay Eeyou School, Chisasibi, May 22.

Other Graduate work with the CCLAS project:

Ilia Nicoll, May-August 2016
Anaer Nulahan, Jan 2016-July 2017