Preliminary Program
 

Friday, May 18
362 Royce Hall
5:30 p.m.  Registration
6:30 (or so)  Welcome and information
7:30   Opening Papers
Fibbie Tatti, Northwest Territories Languages Commissioner
Language and Legislation
 

Saturday, May 19
362 Royce Hall

8:30 registration

9:00 a.m.  Politics and Language Learning I

9:00-9:30   Lucy Lafferty
Dogrib Community Service Board Department of Education
Dogrib Language Preservation

9:30-10:00  Irene Silentman, Navajo Nation Language Project
Navajo language analysis data from Headstart Study

Break 10:00-10:20

10:20-10:50
Bernadette Adley-SantaMaria, University of Arizona
“What if the children cannot learn Apache by learning nouns?”
Apache speaker’s critique on teaching Ndee biyati’

10:50-11:20
Martha Jackson, Thomas Littleben Jr., and Gene Oj A. Vecenti
Dine College
Pedagogy, Lesson Planning, and Assessment

11:20-12:00
Discussant:  Lillian Morris., Smithers, B.C.
 

12:00   Lunch Break
 

2:00   Politics and Language Learning II

2:00-2:30    Kathy Sikorski, Alaska Native Language Center
Strategies used in Acquiring an Athabaskan Language

2:30-3:00    Gary Holton and Irene Arnold, Alaska Native Language Center
How to write *n in Tanacross: a preliminary acoustic study of stem-initial nasalized stops

3:00-3:30  Patrick Marlow, Alaska Native Language Center
University programs and language revitalization

3:30-3:50    Break

3:50-4:20
Lillian Garnett and Irene Arnold, Alaska Native Language Center
Fostering fluency in Alaskan Athabaskan languages

4:20-5:00
Discussant:  Marie Skidmore, Cold Lake, Alberta
 

5:00    Business Meeting

7:30 p.m.   PARTY
    at Jenny and Peter Ladefoged’s House
 

Sunday, May 20

9:00 a.m.   Linguistics
 

9:00-9:25    Bernard Spolsky, Emeritus professor, Bar-Ilan University
Prospects for the survival of the Navajo language: a reconsideration

9:25-9:50    Willem de Reuse, University of North Texas
Fuzziness and classificatory verb stems in Western Apache

9:50-10:20   Barbra A. Meek, University of Arizona
                    Leda Jules (ALS)
                    Kaska Handling Verbs

10:20-10:45  Andrea Wilhelm, University of Calgary
Why place and manner pattern differently in the Slavey D-effect

10:45-11:00  Break

11:00-11:25    Sharon Hargus, University of Washington
Vowel classes and stress in Fort Ware Sekani

11:25-11:50    Discussant:  Mary Willie, University of Arizona
 

12:00    Lunch

2:00    Voice Quality Workshop
Place: TBA

Melissa Epstein, UCLA
Introduction to the Acoustic Analysis of Voice Quality

Matt Gordon, UCSB
Linguistic Analyses of Voice Quality

Peter Ladefoged, UCLA
Instrumentation for Analysis of Voice Quality

Participatory activities: data analysis

5:00    Closing Remarks