Moricetown, B.C.
Friday, June 9, 2000
Moricetown Community Hall
Program
Presentations are 30 minutes with 10 minutes for questions.
9 Announcements and welcoming remarks from Henry Alfred (Witsuwit'en chiefs office), Victor Jim (Kyah Wiget Education Society), and Antonia Mills (UNBC)
9:15-9:55 Jeff Leer, University of Alaska Fairbanks: ‘How stress shapes the stem in Athabaskan’
9:55-10:35 Sharon Hargus, University of Washington: ‘Quality and quantity issues in Witsuwit’en word stress’
Break
10:50-11:30 Bill Poser, Carrier Sekani Tribal Council and UBC: ‘An acoustic study of Dakelh (Carrier) pitch accent’
11:30-12:10 Gary Holton, University of Alaska Fairbanks: ‘Tone and intonation in Tanacross’
Lunch break
1:30-2:10 Suzanne Gessner, University of British Columbia: ‘Properties of tone in Chipewyan’
2:10-2:50 Joyce McDonough, University of Rochester: Tone in Navajo’
Break
3:05-3:45 Siri Tuttle, UCLA: ‘Locations and realizations of prominence in Athabaskan languages’
3:45-4:25 John Alderete and Tanya Bob, University of British Columbia: ‘A Corpus-based Study of Stress in Tahltan’
John Alderete, University of British Columbia: ‘Word level prosody in Tahltan, a historical and phonetic exploration’
Break
4:40 Discussion (Michael Krauss, University of Alaska Fairbanks, invited discussant)