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The relative effects of phonetic and phonological salience on speech sound processing
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 ...


Tlicho On-line and Print Dictionary
Principal Investigator: Saxon, Leslie A.
Licensed Year(s): 2015 2014 2013 2011 2009
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...


Light verbs and predicate types in Tlicho Yatii
Principal Investigator: Welch, Nicholas D S
Licensed Year(s): 2013 2009 2007
Summary: The grammar of Tlicho Yatii encodes a difference between permanent properties of individuals (individual-level predicates), and temporary, limited ones (stage-level predicates). This project seeks to discover whether this difference comes from lexical meaning or syntactic structure. If the latter, the principal researcher expects that sentences with stage-level predicates such as 'Michel has a col...


Dogrig Syntax: Pronouns and Questions
Principal Investigator: Saxon, Leslie A.
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To investigate the pronouns and questions in the Dogrib language as part of research into overall patterns of sentence structure in Dogrib; provide a description of Dogrib sentence structure potentially useful for other applications; compare Dogrib with related languages and to aid the understanding of language structure generally....


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