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Perceiving Dene "click" Sounds
chercheur principal: Bezha, Walter
Année(s) de permis: 2020
Résumé: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4700. The outcome of this research can be used in language teaching to help learners open their ears to sounds that make Dene language different from English. The research team want to find ways to help Dene as a second language learners to hear variation in pronunciation and sounds more fluent when they speak. The research...


The relative effects of phonetic and phonological salience on speech sound processing
chercheur principal: Barzilai, Maya L
Année(s) de permis: 2019
Résumé: 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 ...


Conditionals and temporal expressions in Tlicho Yatii
chercheur principal: Anisman, Adar
Année(s) de permis: 2017 2016
Résumé: 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...


The Verb System of Tetsot'ine Yatie (Yellowknife): Lutselk'e, Dettah, and Ndilo dialects
chercheur principal: Jaker, Alessandro M
Année(s) de permis: 2017 2016
Résumé: The goal of this project is to better understand the verb system of the Chipewyan dialects native to the area north and east of Great Slave Lake--these dialects are the most different from all other Chipewyan (Dene Suline) dialects, and are referred to (by many speakers) as Tetsot'ine Yatie. These dialects are unique in having lost many intervocalic consonants that are still pronounced in the sout...


Tlicho On-line and Print Dictionary
chercheur principal: Saxon, Leslie A.
Année(s) de permis: 2015 2014 2013 2011 2009
Résumé: 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...


Phonetics and Phonology of two Northern Athabaskan Languages
chercheur principal: Jaker, Alessandro M
Année(s) de permis: 2014 2013 2012 2009 2008 2007 2005
Résumé: This project is the continuation of a previous year's project, "Teaching our Yellowknives Dene Languages". The research team will produce two published materials, in each language (Dogrib and Chipewyan): an intermediate-level reader, and a verb dictionary. The reader will contain elders' stories on topics from Dene Kede, with a focus on animals: the research team would like to include at least two...


Light verbs and predicate types in Tlicho Yatii
chercheur principal: Welch, Nicholas D S
Année(s) de permis: 2013 2009 2007
Résumé: 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...


A language survey of Michif in the North Slave region
chercheur principal: Saunders, Susan J
Année(s) de permis: 2013
Résumé: The aim of this project is to determine the current status of the Michif language in the North Slave region by surveying Metis community members to find out the level of fluency of community members, their attitudes toward Michif, and their goals for the future of Michif in the community. The information will be compiled into a Strategic Language Plan that the community can use to guide its langua...


Acquisition of Affixes and Specificity in Young Inuit Children
chercheur principal: Manga, Louise
Année(s) de permis: 1994 1993 1992
Résumé: The researcher will be continuing her study on the language of Inuktitut in young Inuit children....


Dogrig Syntax: Pronouns and Questions
chercheur principal: Saxon, Leslie A.
Année(s) de permis: 1987
Résumé: 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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