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Dissertation
2014. Windesi Wamesa Morphophonology. Committee: Profs. Claire Bowern, Stephen R. Anderson, Ryan Bennett, and Mary Dalrymple (Oxford).
Papers, chapters, & edited volumes
To appear. Vowel Harmony in Austronesian Languages. In Harry van der Hulst & Nancy Ritter (eds.) Handbook of Vowel Harmony. Oxford University Press.
To appear. Emily Gasser, Laura Arnold, & Linn Iren Sjånes Rødvand. The languages of south Halmahera and northwest New Guinea. In B. Palmer & E. Smith-Dennis (eds.) Languages and Linguistics of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific. De Gruyter Mouton.
2024. Byron Ahn, ZL Zhou, Emily Gasser, & Donna Jo Napoli. Perception of the Prosodic
Features of Newscaster Speech. In Bart Hollebrandse, Angeliek van Hout, Roel Jonkers, and Alexander Martin (eds.) TABU Festschrift for Jack Hoeksema 203-218. University of Groningen Press.
2023. VRK Mutation in West Papua: Phonological Variation Across Time and Space. In
Lucas Fagen, Sam Gray, Quain, Stephanie Reyes, & Irene Tang (eds.), Proceedings
of the Fifty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 119–139.
2023. Antoinette Schapper & Emily Gasser. Adnominal Possession in the Languages of Wallacea: A Survey. In E. Gasser & A. Schapper (eds.) Possession in the Languages of Wallacea. Special issue of STUF – Language Typology and Universals 76(3): 273-329.
2023. Emily Gasser & Antoinette Schapper. Introduction to the Special Issue on “Possession in the languages of Wallacea”. In E. Gasser & A. Schapper (eds.) Possession in the Languages of Wallacea. Special issue of STUF – Language Typology and Universals 76(3): 267-272.
2023. Emily Gasser & Antoinette Schapper (eds.) Possession in the Languages of Wallacea. Special issue of STUF – Language Typology and Universals 76(3).
2023. Emily Gasser, Laura Arnold, & David Kamholz. Languages of South Halmahera and West New Guinea. In A. Adelaar & A. Schapper (eds.) The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia. Oxford University Press.
2022. Donna Jo Napoli, Emily Gasser, & Shi-Zhe Huang. Senior theses: Creating a Community of Scholars for Original, Authentic Research. Language 98(1), e26-e43.
2020. Seán G. Roberts, Anton Killin, Angarika Deb, Catherine Sheard, Simon J. Greenhill, Kaius Sinnemäki, José Segovia-Martín, Jonas Nölle, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Archie Humphreys-Balkwill, Hannah Little, Christopher Opie, Guillaume Jacques, Lindell Bromham, Peeter Tinits, Robert M. Ross, Sean Lee, Emily Gasser, Jasmine Calladine, Matthew Spike, Stephen Francis Mann, Olena Shcherbakova, Ruth Singer, Shuya Zhang, Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Christian Kliesch, Ewan Thomas-Colquhoun, Hedvig Skirgård, Monica Tamariz, Sam Passmore, Thomas Pellard, & Fiona Jordan. CHIELD: The Causal Hypotheses in Evolutionary Linguistics Database. Journal of Language Evolution 1-20.
2019. Borrowed Color and Flora/Fauna Terminology in Northwest New Guinea. Journal of Language Contact 12(3), 609-659.
2019. Emily Gasser, Byron Ahn, Donna Jo Napoli, & ZL Zhou. Production, Perception, and Communicative Goals of American Newscaster Speech. Language in Society.
2017. Papuan-Austronesian Language Contact on Yapen Island: A Preliminary Account. Antoinette Schapper, ed. NUSA 62, Contact and Substrate in the Languages of Wallacea: 101-155.
2017. The Right to Say Yes: Language Documentation in West Papua. Australian Journal of Linguistics 37(4), 502-526. Accepted manuscript Published version
2015. The development of verbal infixation in Cenderawasih Bay. In Malcolm D. Ross and I Wayan Arka (eds.), Language Change in Austronesian Language: Papers from 12-ICAL, vol. 3. A-PL 018/SAL 004. Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics.
2014. Emily Gasser & Claire Bowern. Revisiting phonological generalizations in Australian languages. In John Kingston, Claire Moore-Cantwell, Joe Pater, and Robert Staubs (eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of Phonology 2013. Washington DC: Linguistic Society of America.
2014. Subgrouping in Nusa Tenggara: The case of Bima-Sumba. In Jeffrey Connor-Linton and Luke Wander Amoroso (eds.), Measured Language: Quantitative Studies of Acquisition, Assessment, and Variation, 63-78. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
Invited Talks
2022. Invited plenary: VRK Mutation in Papua: Phonological Variation Across Time and Space. Chicago Linguistic Society 58. University of Chicago, April 22–24.
2021. What Can We Learn From NW New Guinea? University of Washington Language
Documentation Discussion Group, Nov. 19. (via Zoom.)
2020. Weird Word Order in Western New Guinea: Wamesa, Wooi, Warembori (& Dusner). Presented at the Newcastle University Linguistics Seminar Series, Oct. 21. (via Zoom.)
2020. Rachel Elizabeth Weissler & Emily Gasser. Oh Dip: Intonation & Identity on The Good Place. University of Michigan Psycholinguistics Lab, October 15. (via Zoom.)
2019. What Social Network Analysis can Tell Us About Language Contact in Northwest New Guinea. Paper presented at the Workshop in Celebration of David Gil, Leipzig, August 20.
2019. Social Network Analysis & Borrowing in NW New Guinea: A First Look. Paper presented at the Singapore Summer Meeting 2019, National University of Singapore, July 13.
2019. Possession in Cenderawasih Bay: An Overview. Paper presented at the 2nd Workshop on the Languages of Wallacea, Leiden University, June 17.
2018. Surprising Phonology: Typology and Diachrony of Austronesian VRK Mutation. Department of Linguistics Friday Lunch Talk, Yale University, Nov. 16.
2018. Austronesian VRK Mutation: Typology and Development of a ‘Crazy’ Rule. Department of Linguistics & Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Australia, May 9.
2016. Orange You Glad I Didn’t Say Banana?: Borrowed Color and Flora/Fauna Terminology in W. Papuan Languages. Paper presented at the Workshop on Papuan-Austronesian Contact in Wallacea, Leiden University, Dec. 1-2.
2016. Shifting Words: Language Pride and Language Endangerment in Indonesia. Southeast Asia Seminar, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, May 11.
2015. Computational Biology Meets Language Evolution: Untangling Family Trees in W. Papua. Swarthmore College Faculty Lunch Series, Dec. 2.
2015. Cenderawasih Bay and the Structure of SHWNG. Paper presented at the ‘Integrating Inferences About Our Past: New Findings and Current Issues in the Peopling of the Pacific and South East Asia’ workshop, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, June 22-23.
2015. Crazy Rules and Family Trees: Phonological Change in Papua. Tri-College Linguistics Department Faculty Talk Series, Swarthmore College, April 7.
2014. Back of the Bird’s Head: Linguistic Fieldwork in West Papua. Yale Council on Southeast Asia Studies and the Yale Indonesia Forum. April 8th.
Refereed Conference Presentations
2021. Rachel Elizabeth Weissler & Emily Gasser. Character Building through Intonation on The Good Place. Poster presented at NWAV 49. UT Austin, October 19–24.
2020. Emily Gasser & Rachel Elizabeth Weissler. Oh Dip: Intonation & Identity on The Good Place. Paper presented at Arizona Linguistics Circle 14: Language Technology and Media. University of Arizona, October 17. (via Zoom.)
2019. SHWNG Noun Phrases and How They Got That Way: Extended Cut. Paper presented at the 5th Workshop on the Languages of Papua (WLP5), Universitas Negeri Papua, July 15-19.
2019. SHWNG Noun Phrases and How They Got That Way. Paper presented at the 11th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics conference (APLL11), Universiteit Leiden, June 13-15.
2018. Emily Gasser, Byron Ahn, Donna Jo Napoli, & Z.L. Zhou. Prosodic Features of Newscaster Intonation: Production, Perception, and Communicative Use. Paper to be presented at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP4). UMass Amherst, October 11-13.
2018. VRK Mutation: Distribution of a Crazy Rule in Cenderawasih Bay. Paper presented at the 14th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (14ICAL), Université d’Antananarivo, Madagascar, July 17-20.
2018. Affixing Clitics: Definite Determiners in Windesi Wamesa. Paper presented at the 20th International Congress of Linguistics: Dynamics of Language, Cape Town, July 2-6. handout. slides.
2017. Creating Language Support Materials in the Undergraduate Classroom. Paper presented at the Workshop on the Languages of Papua 3, Universitas Papua, January 23-26.
2016. Crazy Clusters in SHWNG: Synchronic Questions, Historical Answers. Paper presented at the 8th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics conference (APLL8), SOAS University of London, May 13-14.
2015. /β, r, k/ in Wamesa: A Historical Route to a Crazy Rule. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, January 8-11.
2014. Stress Shift and Prosodic Structure in Wamesa. Paper presented at the Workshop on the Languages of Papua 3, Universitas Negeri Papua, January 20-24.
2014. Stress Shift and Prosodic Structure in Wamesa. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, January 2-5.
2014. Emily Gasser & Claire Bowern. Revisiting Phonotactic Generalizations in Australian Languages. Poster presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, January 2-5. Poster Handout
2013. Emily Gasser & Claire Bowern. Reconsidering Australian Phonotactic Generalizations. Poster presented at Phonology 2013, UMass Amherst, November 8-10. PDFs: Poster Handout
2013. Exchanging Words and Skills: Language Documentation in West Papua. Paper presented at the 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC3), University of Hawaii at Manoa, February 28 – March 3. (Title links to audio and slides.)
2012. Verbal Agreement in Wamesa: No ONSET Required. Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (12ICAL), Udayana University, July 2-6.
2012. The Use of Bahasa Daerah by Young People: Observations from West Papua. Paper presented at the ‘Language Ideologies in Indonesia’ Workshop, Yale University, March 30-31.
2012. Subgrouping in Nusa Tenggara: The Case of Bima-Sumba. Paper presented at the Georgetown University Round Table on Languages & Linguistics (GURT), Georgetown University, March 8-11.
2011. Linguistic Subgrouping in Nusa Tenggara: The Case of Bima-Sumba. Paper presented at the 6th Biannual Northeast Conference on Indonesian Studies (NCIS6), Yale University, February 19.
2010. Nasal Substitution and Reduplication in Indonesian. Paper presented at SYNC 12, SUNY Stonybrook, December 4.
Talking Dictionaries
2020. Yawa Unat Talking Dictionary. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. http://talkingdictionary.org/yawa_unat.
2019. (with Boas Wabia.) Mpur Talking Dictionary. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. http://talkingdictionary.org/mpur.
2018. Biak Talking Dictionary. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. http://talkingdictionary.org/biak.
2017. Serewen Talking Dictionary. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. http://talkingdictionary.org/serewen.
2017. Ansus Talking Dictionary. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. http://talkingdictionary.org/ansus.
2017. Pom Talking Dictionary. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. http://talkingdictionary.org/pom.
2016. (with David Gil.) Roon Talking Dictionary. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. http://talkingdictionary.org/roon.
2015. Wamesa Talking Dictionary, pilot version. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. http://talkingdictionary.org/wamesa.
Wamesa Data
My Wamesa recordings and fieldnotes are archived with PARADISEC in the collection EAG1.
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