Research Areas
Phonetics
- Saami Phonetics: Acoustic
Analysis of Contrastive Quantity
- Analysis of Temporal Patterns
in Speech Production
Sociolinguistics
- Endangered Languages (Skolt Saami, Oroqen): Language Planning, Literacy
- Sociophonetics (Hungarian, NZ
English)
Selected
Publications/Presentations
- Quantity in the Skolt
Lappish (Saami) language: An acoustic analysis. Uralic and Altaic Series 165. Bloomington:
Indiana University Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies. 255+ xvi
pp. ISBN 0-933070-45-4. 1999.
Reviewed by
Ilse Lehiste, Journal of Finnish Studies
4, 65-70. 2000.
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- Ilse Lehiste
(1922-2010): The significance of empirical evidence in
linguistics. 2016. In P. Koskinen and A. Haas (Eds.). Proceedings of the 2010, 2012 and 2014
Conferences of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada. Online publication via the University
of Alberta. https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/fusac/index.php/fusac
- The importancs of empirical evidence in ubderstanding
language: Ilse Lehiste's contribution to linguistic theory. Keynote
presentation. The 19th Conference of
the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada. Wilfrid Lauriel
University. Kitchener, Ont. May 26-28. 2012.
- Ilse Lehiste. 2012. The
Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics.
http://www.encyclopediaofappliedlinguistics.com
- A dynamic approach to the description of diphthongs in Skolt
Saami. The 19th Conference of
the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada. Wilfrid
Lauirel University. Kitchener, Ont. May 26-28. 2012.
- Speech production by Hungarian-English bilinguals: Exploring
a common languages-in-contact phenomenon. Hungarian Studies Association of Canada
Conference. University of Waterloo. May 26-28.
2012.
- "Constraints on durational increase in boundary positions: A
cross-linguistic study of languages with contrastive quantity". Acoustical Society of Canada: Acoustic
Week in Canada 2010. Victoria, British Columbia. October
13-15.
- "Experimental
study of prosody in Finno-Ugric languages". Discussion paper read
in the Plenary Session of the Congressus
XI Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum. 9-14. VIII. 2010.
Piliscsaba Hungary. Published in Congressus
XI Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum. 9-14. VIII. 2010. Pars I.
Orationes Pleanariae. pp. 247-267. Budapest: Reguly
Társaság.
- "Evidence for language change in Skolt Saami". The Seventeenth Conference of the
Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada. Montreal, Concordia
University. May 29-31, 2010.
- "An
experimental phonetic approach to the analysis of the Skolt Saami vowel
system." 2nd Saami Linguistic
Symposium. University of Tromsø, Norway. November 19-21,
2009.
- "The instability of systems
with ternary length distinction: The Skolt Saami evidence." Saami
linguistics. ed. by Ida Toivoinen & Diane
Nelson.
Current issues in linguistic theory 288. John Benjamins
Publishers, Co. 165-205. 2007.
- "The production
and perception of Skolt Saami vowel contrast". Budapest Uralic Workshop 6.: Sounds of
Uralic Languages. Budapest, Hungary. January 11-12, 2008.
- "The acoustic
correlates of Skolt Saami vowel contrasts". 15th Conference of the Finno-Ugric Studies
Association of Canada. York University. May 29-30, 2006.
- "The language of
the children of 1956: A study of pronunciation characteristics". 22nd Conference of the Hungarian
Studies Association of Canada. York University. May 27-30, 2006
- "Sound change in progress: An
acoustic study of vowel variation in the speech of Hungarians in
Vancouver, British Columbia". Proceedings of the 13th
Conference of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada, Burnaby,
British Columbia. ed
by Zita.McRobbie-Utasi & Connie So. 2003. FUSAC Publications.
ISBN 086491-237-4. 247 pp.
- "Boundary signaling in relation
to temporal pattern differences: The relevance of the role of
duration". Proceedings of the
15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, 3-9 August,
2003. 2019-2023.
- "Phonetic realizations of the New
Zealand KIT vowel in relation to two social variables". Proceedings of the 15th International
Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, 3-9 August, 2003.
1201-1205.
- "An acoustic study of an uncommon
vowel produced by Hungarian English bilinguals". Canadian Acoustics 31, 34-35. 2003.
- "Pronunciation changes in the
speech of Hungarian-English bilinguals". Conference of
the Canadian Association of Hungarian Studies. Québec
City, 2001.
- "Variation and accommodation in
the speech of the individual". NWAV Conference, Toronto.
Co-authored with D. Starks. (First author: Z.McRobbie-Utasi) 1999.
- "Contrastive vs. non-contrastive
duration in relation to temporal patterns within the paragraph". Proceedings
of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco,
Aug. 1-7. 1999. Vol.1, 249-252. 1999.
- "An acoustical analysis of
durational interdependencies in Skolt Saami". Nyelvtudományi
Közlemények 94: 137-146. 1996.
- "The duration of long obstruents
in Skolt Sámi: a prosodic change in progress?" Conference
of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada. St.Catharines.
1996.
- "The configuration of the
prosodic components in the three-way quantity distinction in Skolt
Sámi". Proceedings of the 1996 Annual Conference of
the Canadian Linguistic Association, Calgary Working Papers in
Linguistics. 269-280. 1996.
- "The implications of temporal
patterns for the prosody of boundary signaling in connected speech," in
Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken
Language Processing, Philadelphia, USA, 1996, 1189-1192. 1996.
- "The maintaining of durational
distinctions: patterns and consequences". Proceedings
of the 1995 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association,
Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics. 349-360. 1995.
- "The maintaining of durational
ratios in quantity distinctions in conversational speech," Proceedings
of the XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Stockholm,
Sweden, Aug. 14-20. Vol. I. 166-69. 1995.
- "Timing strategies within the
paragraph". Proceedings of the International Conference
on Spoken Language Processing, Yokohama, Japan. 383-386. 1994.
- "Observing the Process of
Language Attrition: Prefix Misplacement and Word Order Change in
Hungarian". Proceedings of the
Eighth Conference of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of
Canada. Transitions, Maintenance and Adaptations of
Cultural Values of the Finno-Ugric Immigrant Descendants in North
America. ed. by Joel
Nevis and Juta. Kitching151-63.
1992.
- "The role of preaspiration
duration in the voicing contrast in Skolt Sámi". Proceedings
of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Banff. 1263-1265.
1992.
- "Durational ratios of disyllabics
in relation to the syllable boundary in Skolt Sámi". Proceedings
of the XIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences,
Aix-en-Provence, France. 306-309. 1991.