Principal Investigator:Barzilai, Maya L Licensed Year(s):
2019
Summary:
The objective of this project is to examine cases in which the phonetic and phonological properties of a pair of speech sounds make conflicting about predictions in which sound will be more easily processed. Tlicho, a phonologically Low-marked language, provides an ideal test ground for this question. High tones are more phonetically salient, where as low tones are more salient in the grammatical ...
Principal Investigator:Saxon, Leslie A. Licensed Year(s):
2017
Summary:
There are two research objectives: 1) to develop a bilingual Tlicho-English recipe and instruction book with collaboration from Tlicho language and culture experts and community members. This will be a community resource. (There may be instructions relating to cooking that are not exactly recipes, but the research team will refer to them as “recipes” in what follows.) 2) The research focuses on me...
Principal Investigator:Anisman, Adar Licensed Year(s):
2017
2016 Summary:
This research has two main objectives are to:
1. conduct linguistics research about the structure and meaning of conditional clauses and counterfactuals in Tlicho; and,
2. work towards updating the online Tlicho dictionary with new words, audio for existing words, and additional example sentences to existing entries.
Participants will be asked to translate sentences from English to Tlicho aft...
Principal Investigator:Saxon, Leslie A. Licensed Year(s):
2015
2014201320112009 Summary:
The objectives of this research project are to:
1. continue development of the existing on-line dictionary, available publically at (http://tlicho.ling.uvic.ca);
2. continue development of the iPod/iPad/iPhone application "Yati", which is currently available for download from the iTunes store;
3. develop templates for the production of new print editions of the primary dictionary and larger dic...