Gloria Mellesmoen

PhD Candidate at UBC Linguistics

I am a phonologist (and occasional phonetician) with an interest in non-concatenative morphology, reduplication, and phonological structure. I am interested in sub-phonemic structure (phonetics-phonology interface) and allomorphy.

I conduct fieldwork on Salish languages and I also study topics related to the semantics of non-concatenative morphology (form-function relationship). I ask questions related to language variation and change in smaller speech communities.

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Upcoming Events

March 2024: A View(point) from Outer Aspect: Cross-Salish Variation in Phonological Domains. Talk at Exploring Boundaries: Phonological Domains in the Languages of the World at UiT (slides)

Recent Events

November 2024: Limited by Number of Morphemes, not Copied Segments: Multiple Reduplication and Triplication in St’át’imcets. Talk at Annual Meeting of Phonology (AMP) 2024 [slides]

July 2024: Reduplication and “vowel reduction” in Lushootseed. Paper at International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages (with S. Urbanczyk) [paper] [slides]

March 2024: The Role of Derived Allophones in Vowel Systems. Colloquium talk for UVic Department of Linguistics (with A. Cardoso) [slides]