CURRICULUM VITAE

George Tucker Childs

Department of Applied Linguistics Physical address: Department of Applied Linguistics Portland State University Portland State University PO Box 751 335H University Center Building Portland, OR 97207-0751 527 SW Hall Tel. (503) 725-4099 Portland, OR 97201-5215 e-mail: [email protected]

EDUCATION

• University of California; Berkeley, CA; M.A., Linguistics 1982; Ph.D., Linguistics, 1988 • Advanced Intensive Swahili Institute; Malindi, Kenya; Summer, 1987 • Georgetown University; Washington, DC; M.S., Sociolinguistics, 1982 • University of Virginia; Charlottesville, VA; M. Ed., English Instruction, 1979 • Trinity College, University of Dublin (Ireland); Diploma (Hons.), Anglo-Irish Literature, 1975 • Stanford University; Stanford, CA; B.A., English, 1970

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

• Department of Applied Linguistics, Portland State University, Portland, OR, Chair 2015-18; Professor, 2002-present; Associate Professor, 1996-2002; permanent tenure awarded 1999. Courses taught: African-American Vernacular English, Dialectology, Discourse Analysis, Field Methods (Mende, Twi), Historical and Comparative Linguistics, Introduction to Language, Introduction to Linguistics, Language Contact, Language and Gender, Language Endangerment / Endangered Languages, Language and Society, Language Typology, Language Variation, Phonetics, Phonology, Pidgins and Creoles, Empirical Research Writing, Sociolinguistics, Structure of English, First-year Swahili.(Guest taught: Languages of the World (World Languages and Literatures), Black English (African-American Studies)) • Linguistics Section, English Programme, Fourah Bay College, University of , Freetown, Sierra Leone. Courses taught: Sociolinguistics, Research Methods (2007-08), (2016-17); occasional lectures in Language Documentation and Revitalization (2012-18). Advised Honours thesis students. • InField (Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation, now “CoLang”), summer, 2008. University of California, Santa Barbara. Courses taught: Problematizing the Fieldwork Experience, Ethics in Linguistics (twice); Field methods (Mende). • Societas Linguistica Europaea, Summer School on Linguistic Methodology, Campobasso, Università del Molise, Italy, Field methods, language of focus: Wolof, summer, 2007. • Chercheur visitant (Fulbright), Centre d’Etude des Langues Guinéennes, Université de Conakry, Conakry, République de Guinée, janvier - août 2000, Sujets de recherche : Les interfaces lexicales et grammaticales entre les kissien et leurs voisins mandingues ; Le mmani : une langue atlantique en danger de disparaître. • Professeur visitant (Fulbright), Faculté de Sciences Humaines Université de Kankan, Kankan, République de Guinée; 2000; Courses: Research Seminar (for faculty), English and Technology (4th year students). • Chercheur Visiteur Associé à l’UMR 7594 du CNRS, Langage, Langues et Cultures d’Afrique Noire (LLACAN), Meudon / Villejuif, France, 1999-2000. • Englisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany. Visiting Professor, 1998. Courses: Language Variation (Proseminar), Pidgins and Creoles (Hauptseminar), African Languages (Hauptseminar). • Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Visiting Assistant Professor, 1994-1996. Courses taught: Undergraduate: Field Methods (twice: Sudanese , Mandinka), Introduction to Sociolinguistics, Language Variation and Change, Structure of English; CV: G. Tucker Childs Page: 2

Graduate: Discourse Analysis, Pidgins and Creoles, Structure of a Language (Kisi), African Languages and Linguistics. • Department of Linguistics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Senior Lecturer, 1993-1994; Lecturer, 1991-1993. Courses taught: Field Methods, Introduction to Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Sociolinguistics, Experimental Phonology. • Program in Linguistics, Department of English, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Visiting Assistant Professor, 1988-1990. Courses taught: Undergraduate: Introduction to Linguistics, Introduction to Literature, Introduction to Drama, Business Writing; Graduate: Sociolinguistics. • Center for African Studies, University of California, Berkeley; Language Coordinator, 1985-1988; Teaching Assistant, First-year Swahili, 1987-88. • San Jose State University; San Jose, California; Visiting Assistant Professor, 1982, 1984-85. Courses taught: Undergraduate: Introduction to Linguistics, ESL Composition, Phonetics, Sociolinguistics; Graduate: Phonology I & II. • University of Liberia; Monrovia, Liberia. Occasional lectures in linguistics as part of Fulbright Doctoral Research Grant, 1983-84. • University of California, Berkeley; Teaching associate: 1981-1983, 1986-1987. Courses taught: ESL Composition, ESL Oral Skills; Courses assisted: Introduction to Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Syntax. • Woodberry Forest School; Woodberry Forest, Virginia; secondary school English teacher, 1976-79 • Escuelas Profesionales "Luis Amigo"; Godella, Valencia, Spain; ESL teacher, 1975-76 • Elgin Academy; Elgin, Illinois; Director of Admissions, 1973-75 • Tamba Taylor Public School; Shelloe, Lofa County, Liberia; Peace Corps Volunteer, 1970-72

AWARDS AND GRANTS

• 2018. Kenneth L. Hale Award by the Linguistic Society of America for outstanding work on the Bolom Language Group of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Salt Lake City Utah, Annual Meeting of the LSA, January 6th. • 2015. Travel Grant. Portland State University.To present a paper at the 4th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC), University of Hawai’i, Manoa, Feb 26 - Mar 1. • 2014a. Major Language Documentation Grant (MDP0316): Project for the Documentation of the Sherbro Language and Culture (slc). Sept 2015 – Aug 2018. Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. • 2014b. Travel Grant. Portland State University. To present two papers (one invited) at the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, “Africa’s Endangered Languages: Documentary & Theoretical Approaches”, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, Apr 17-19. • 2013. Travel Grant. Portland State University. To present two papers at the 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC), University of Hawai’i, Manoa, Feb 28 - Mar 3. • 2012.Travel Grant. Portland State University. To present papers at the World Conference on African Linguistics (WOCAL 7), Buea, Cameroon, 20-23 Aug, and at NigerCongo, Langage, Langues et Cultures d’Afrique Noire (LLACAN), CNRS, Paris, France, 18-21 Sept., with an interlude of Sierra Leone fieldwork in between. • 2010. National Science Foundation, Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL), # 0652137. Video documenting the uses of the Mani language and other cultural activities. Sept 2011 – Jun 2013. • 2011a. Diompillor / ‘One voice’ (the national organization of Kisi people). Declared an Honorary Kisi Elder at the annual meeting of, Sept. 3-5, 2011, Philadelphia, PA. • 2011b. National Science Foundation, Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE), Catalyzing New International Collaborations (with Jeff Good, University at Buffalo), # 1160649.

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Workshop on sociolinguistic language documentation in Sub-Saharan Africa, part of WOCAL 7, University of Buea, Cameroon, Aug 17-19, 2012. • 2009a. Portland State University, Faculty Enhancement Grant. Research and Sponsored Projects. Support for research and for the journal Studies in African Linguistics (2009-10). • 2009b. Voice of America, Subvention: equipment and personnel provided for filming DKB and MDP projects (Mar-Apr 2009). • 2007a. National Science Foundation, Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL), # 1065609. Project Documenting two dying Sierra Leone languages, Kim and Bom (DKB). Sept 2007 – May 2010. • 2007b. Post-tenure Faculty Development Award, Portland State University. July 2007. Support for research assistant to prepare Mani dictionary for publication. • 2007c. Travel Grant. Mar 2007. Portland State University. To attend 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 38), University of Florida, Gainesville. • 2006. Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Major Language Documentation Grant: Project for the Documentation of Krim and Bom (DKB), # MDP 0167. Sept 2007 – Oct 2009. • 2003. Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Major Language Documentation Grant: Mani Documentation Project (MDP), # MDP 0085. July 2004 – Sept 2006. • 2002. Center for Academic Excellence, Portland State University. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning with Technology Award. April 2002. • Mar 2001. Travel Grant. Portland State University. To attend 32nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 32), University of California, Berkeley. July 10th. • 2001. Portland State University. Faculty Enhancement Award. Portland Dialect Survey. May. • 2000a. Bremer Stiftung für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, Bremen, Germany. Research award for social anthropology. Pilot fieldwork on Mani, a dying language of Guinea. June-July. • 200b. Endangered Language Fund, New Haven, CT. Research grant. 2000. Collaborative fieldwork on Mani with the Centre d’Études des Langues Guinéennes (CELG), University of Conakry. June- July. • 1999a. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). Publishing subvention. 1999. Underwriting the publication of A Kisi-English Dictionary (Rüdiger Köppe). Dec. • 1999b. Fulbright Lecturer/Researcher Award, Guinea. Creating the Program at the University of Kankan; researching the under-described Atlantic languages of Guinea at the Centre d’Études des Langues Guinéennes (CELG), University of Conakry. Jan-Aug. • 1998. Bremer Stiftung für Kultur- und Sozial-anthropologie, Bremen, Germany. Research award for social anthropology. (July 1999). Work on the under-described Atlantic languages of Guinea. • 1997. Portland State University Faculty Development Grant; College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; 1997-98: Work on a Kisi-English dictionary; 1998-99: Study of Portland dialects. • 1994. General Research Grants, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (to the Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto); 1994-95: preparing a Kisi-English bilingual dictionary for publication; 1995-96: field work on Kisi and Mandinka. • 1993a. Council Grant for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1993; University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa); Purpose: Relief from lecturing duties to prepare publications. • 1993b. Research Grant, Centre for Science Development, Pretoria (South Africa); Project title: The sociolinguistics of Zulu ideophones, a variation study. • 1993c. CSD Foreign Conference Grant, 1993; Centre for Science Development, Pretoria; Conference travel to: Linguistic Society of America; Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. • 1988. Miscellaneous Student Aid Grant, University of California at Berkeley; Project: The phonology and morphology of Kisi (Ph.D. thesis). • 1987a. Foreign Languages and Area Fellowship, US Department of Education; Language: Swahili

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• 1987b. Instructional Improvement Grant, 1987; University of California at Berkeley; Project: The proficiency-based teaching of African languages with untrained teachers. • 1983a. Fulbright Doctoral Research Grant, 1983-84; Project: The role of the substrate: a study of the three pidgins used by Kisi speakers in West Africa. • 1983b. Humanities Graduate Research Grant; University of California at Berkeley; Project: Dialect variation in Kisi. • 1982. National Resource Fellowship, 1982-83; US Department of Education; Language of award: Kisi. • 1981. Foreign Languages and Area Fellowship, 1981-82; US Department of Education; Language of award: Kisi.

PUBLICATIONS

In preparation. A Sherbro grammar: Establishing the constituency and membership of the independent Niger-Congo group Mel. Submitted. Language documentation and description. The Cambridge Introduction to Applied Linguistics, eds. Susan Conrad, Alissa Hartig, and Lynn Santelmann. Camridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. To appear a. Bom-Kim. The Oxford Guide to the Atlantic Languages of West Africa, ed. by Friederike Lüpke. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. In press. To appear b. Genetically motivated clusters within Atlantic. The Oxford Guide to the Atlantic Languages of West Africa, ed. by Friederike Lüpke. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. In press. To appear c. Kisi, the divergent Mel language of Atlantic. The Oxford Guide to the Atlantic Languages of West Africa, ed. by Friederike Lüpke. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. In press. To appear d. The knowledge of ideophones and multilingualism: A West African pilot study. Ideophones and Linguistic Theory, ed. Kimi Akita and Prashant Pardeshi. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. In press.

(one version, an abstract) iF

To appear e. Language endangerment in Africa. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, ed. Aronoff, Mark. New York: Oxford University Press. To appear f. One language or two? . In wocal7, ed. Atindogbé, Gratien Gualbert. Cologne, Germany: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.

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To appear g. Variations on a theme, the grammar(s) of Bom and Kim, two South Atlantic (Mel) languages. The Oxford Handbook of African Languages, ed. Rainer Vossen and Gerrit Dimmendaal. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. In press. 2019a. (with Margarida Petter and Shigeki Kaji with Yang Chul-Joon Kaji, Sun Xiaomeng, and John Hajek). African Linguistics in the Americas, Asia and Australia. In The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics, ed. Wolff, H. Ekkehard: 115-36. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2019b. The study of African languages in North America. The Cambridge History of African Linguistics, ed. by H. Ekkehard Wolff. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. In press.

None of the above have been researched as of yet…

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2018a. Forty-plus years before the mast: My experiences as a field linguist. In Word Hunters. Field linguists on fieldwork., eds. Sarvasy, Hannah and Diana Forker: 61-78. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. DOI: 10.1075/slcs.194.05chi.

[Book chapter – see https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.194.05chi for info] PP?

2018b. Language endangerment in Africa. The Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Linguistics, ed. by Mark Aronoff. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. In press. [not yet available?] 2017a. Busy intersections: A framework for revitalization. In Africa's Endangered Languages: Documentary and Theoretical Approaches, ed. Jason Kandybowicz: 145-164. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/africas-endangered-languages- 9780190256340?q=kandybowicz&lang=en&cc=us#

see https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/25250 for more info

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2017b. A Sherbro-English Dictionary. Portland, OR: Bolom Press. [No sign of it online?] ASK GTC

2017c. What’s really areal? Proceedings of WOCAL 8 (World Conference on African Linguistics), Kyoto, Japan, August 21-24, ed Shigeki Kaji, Tosh Kamiya, and Yukimori Kimoto: 289-312. Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS).

[Couldn’t locate proceedings or ind. doc online]

2016. Doing what (you think) is right in the field: Problematizing the documentation of endangered languages. In Lone Tree: Scholarship in the Service of the Koon. Essays in memory of Anthony Traill, eds. Rainer Vossen and Wilfred H. G. Haacke, 89-105. Cologne, Germany: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.

[Book info here: https://www.koeppe.de/titel_lone-tree-scholarship-in-the-service-of-the-koon ]

2015a. Endangered languages and the language ecology of Sierra Leone. The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies 4, 2-10. http://thejournalofsierraleonestudies.com/

{See http://thejournalofsierraleonestudies.com/downloads/Version8.pdf for front matter]

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2015b. Sound symbolism. The Oxford Handbook of The Word, ed. John R. Taylor. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 284-302. (DOI 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199641604.013.030 (2014))

[Available for purchase only, except for abstract. PP avail?]

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2014a. (with Jeff Good and Alice Mitchell). Beyond the ancestral code: Towards a model for sociolinguistic language documentation. Language Documentation and Conservation 8: 168-191. http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/

[IF more info at http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24601]

2014b. Constraints on violating constraints: How languages reconcile the twin dicta of “Be different” and “Be recognizably language”. Ideophones: Between Grammar and Poetry (A special issue of Pragmatics and Society vol. 5, no. 3) edited by Rusty Barrett, Katherine Lahti, and Anthony K. Webster). 341-354. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (DOI: 10.1075/ps.5.3.02chi)

[Available for purchase only, except for abstract. PP avail?] 2014c. Salvage linguistics in West Africa: What can be done after extended, asymmetrical contact? In and Out of Africa. Languages in Question. In, In Honour of Robert Nicolaï, vol. 2: Contact and Language Change in Africa, Carole de Féral, Maarten G. Kossmann and Mauro Tosco, 73-94. Louvain: Peeters.

[Available for purchase only, except for abstract. PP avail?] more info at http://www.peeters- leuven.be/boekoverz.asp?nr=9247

2012a. How to pretend you speak a dying language when you don’t really know how to speak it: Methodological worries in documenting dying languages. Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 6), Cologne, 17-21 August 2009, ed. Matthias Brenzinger and Anne-Marie Fehn: 75-90. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.

[Available for purchase only, except for sample. PP avail?] more info at https://www.koeppe.de/autor_g-tucker-childs

2012b. Languages of Africa. In Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics, Ed. Mark Aronoff. New York: Oxford University Press.

Info at https://global.oup.com/academic/product/oxford-bibliographies-in-linguistics- 9780199772810?cc=us&lang=en&# Not available online PP needed

2012c. Mani buk 1-4 (Primers for elementary school students), Kasabi cɛ ŋɔ aMani acɛ (‘History of the Mani people’). Illustrated by Hannah Sarvasy with contributions from Meghan & Dan Oswalt. Portland, OR. (Distributed to Mani people in Sept 2012)

Need to ask GTC for this one; couldn’t find online

2011. A Grammar of Mani. New York and Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

https://www.degruyter.com/dg/viewbook/product$002f178110 Book ($)

2010a. Language contact in Africa: A selected review. The Handbook of Language Contact, ed. Raymond Hickey. 695-713. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Bk chapter, info at https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444318159.ch34 Wiley PP?

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2010b. The Mande and Atlantic Groups of Niger-Congo: Prolonged contact with asymmetrical linguistic consequences. In Documenting Atlantic-Mande Convergence and Diversity (A special issue of the Journal of Language Contact, THEMA 3), eds. Friederike Lüpke and Mary Raymond, 15-46. Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill.

PP only, despite being DOAJ, info at https://doi.org/10.1163/19552629- 90000003 Link to DOI? PP?

2009a (ed). A Bom primer compiled and illustrated by Hannah Sarvasy. Portland, OR: JJJ Publications, Inc. (Distributed to speech communities in Sierra Leone, July 2010.)

IF, not 100% sure if allowed, but I think so!

2009b (ed). A Kim primer compiled and illustrated by Hannah Sarvasy. Portland, OR: JJJ Publications, Inc. (Distributed to speech communities in Sierra Leone, July 2010.)

IF, not 100% sure if allowed, but I think so!

2009c. What happens to class when a language dies? Language change vs. language death. Studies in African Linguistics 38, 2. 113-30.

IF, not 100% sure if allowed, but I think so!

2008. Language endangerment in West Africa: Its victims and causes. The Joy of Language, Proceedings of a symposium honoring David Dwyer on the occasion of his retirement. https://www.msu.edu/~dwyer/JOLIndex.htm

IF, not 100% sure if allowed, but I think so!

2007. Let’s speak Mani! / Parlons mani ! Portland, OR: Real Estate Publishers, Inc. (Distributed to speech communities in Guinea and Sierra Leone, April 2009.)

Unable to locate this item online/Ask GTC for item

2006. Focus in Mani and Kisi. In Focus and Topic in African Languages (Frankfurter Afrikanistische Blätter (FAB) 18), ed. by Sonja Ermisch. 27-50. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Institut für Afrikanische Sprachwissenschaften, Goethe-Universität.

Unable to locate this item online/Ask GTC for item More info at https://www.koeppe.de/titel_focus- and-topic-in-african-languages

2005a. Africa and the African Diaspora: Cultural Adaptation and Resistance. ed. with E. Kofi Agorsah. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse.

Could only find on google books, amazon, etc. ISBN 142082760X for details

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2005b. Language creation by necessity: linguistic ramifications of the African Diaspora. In Africa and the African Diaspora: Cultural Adaptation and Resistance, ed. by Kofi Agorsah and G. Tucker Childs. 99-120. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse.

As above.. see also https://www.authorhouse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU- 000385191

2004a. The Atlantic and Mande groups of Niger-Congo: A study in contrasts, a study in interaction. Journal of West African Languages, 30, 2: 29-40.

IF, not 100% sure if allowed, but I think so!

2004b. The S-AUX-O-V syntagm in the Atlantic languages. Studies in African Linguistics 33:1-41.

IF, not 100% sure if allowed, but I think so!

2003a. The African substrate in an African pidgin: the case of Guinea French. In Actes du 3e Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Africaine Lomé 2000, éd. Kézié Koyenzi Lébikaza. 360-373. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.

Unable to locate this item online/Ask GTC for item More info at https://www.koeppe.de/titel_actes-du-3e-wocal-congres-mondial-de-linguistique-africaine-lome- 2000

2003b. An Introduction to African Languages. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

See more info at https://doi.org/10.1075/z.121 For purchase only.

2002 Borrowings into Kisi as evidence of Mande expansionism and influence. 2002. Journal of West African Languages 29, 2: 81-120.

IF, not 100% sure if allowed, but I think so!

2001a. L’insécurité linguistique chez les guinéens : une enquête pilote. With Ibrahima Bayo, Manga Keita, et Dousoumoudou Traoré, avec l'assistance éditoriale de Alpha Souleymane Bangoura et Alpha Oumar Barry. Semestriel Scientifique de l’Université de Kankan (janvier-juin 2001). No. 1/ 11-23. Kankan, Guinée : Université de Kankan.

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2001b. Research on ideophones, whither hence? The need for a social theory of ideophones. In Ideophones, ed. Christa Kilian- Hatz and F. K. Erhard Voeltz. 63-73. Amsterdam: Jo Expressiveness in contact

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hn Benjamins.

See more info at https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.44.06chi For purchase only. PP avail?

2000. A Kisi-English Dictionary with an English-Kisi Index. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.

Out of print/Link to lib cat record: https://search.library.pdx.edu/primo- explore/fulldisplay?docid=TN_wos000185942500007&context=PC&vid=PSU&search_scope=all&tab=def ault_tab&lang=en_US

1997a. Ideophone variation is tied to local identity. Sociolinguistics of Language and Society: Selected Papers from Sociolinguistics Symposium 9, ed. by Mahendra K. Verma. 51-60. Thousand Oaks, CA, London, and New Delhi: SAGE Publications.

Not available online, ask GTC for PP

1997b. Predicate clefting in Kisi. Proceedings of BLS 23, Special Session on the Syntax and Semantics of African Languages. 47-58. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v23i2.1312 IF, but waiting for permission request to be answered

1997c. The status of Isicamtho: an Nguni-based urban vernacular. Pidgins and Creoles: Structure and Status 2, ed. by Donald Winford and Arthur K. Spears. 341-370. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.19.19chi in https://benjamins.com/catalog/cll.19 ask for PP

1996. Where have all the ideophones gone? The death of a word category in Zulu. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 15, 2. 81-103.

IF OA journal see https://twpl.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/twpl/article/view/6315 for more info

1995a. A Grammar of Kisi. New York & Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Primo link: https://search.library.pdx.edu/primo- explore/fulldisplay?docid=TN_wos000168319600003&context=PC&vid=PSU&search_scope=all &tab=default_tab&lang=en_US Pub site https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/144488

1995b. Language typology and reconstruction: the prenasalized stops of Kisi. Studies in African Linguistics 23, 1. 1992-1994. 65-79.

IF OA journal

1995c. Tone and accent in the Atlantic languages: an evolutionary perspective. The Complete Linguist. Essays in Honour of Patrick Dickens, ed. by A. Traill, R. Vossen, and M. Biesele. 1-21. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.

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ISBN 978-3-927620-84-1. https://www.koeppe.de/titel_the-complete-linguist Ask for PP

1994a. Expressiveness in contact situations: The fate of African ideophones. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 9, 2. 257-282.

PP only Info at https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.9.2.03chi

1994b. African ideophones. Studies in Sound Symbolism, ed. by Leanne Hinton, Johanna Nichols, and John Ohala. 178-204. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Info at https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511751806. Primo link: https://search.library.pdx.edu/primo- explore/fulldisplay?docid=CP7195455480001451&context=L&vid=PSU&search_scope=all&tab= default_tab&lang=en_US

1993. Lexicography in West Africa : Some problems and issues. Lexikos 3. 13-28.

Info at http://dx.doi.org/10.5788/3-1-1098. IF

1991. Nasality in Kisi. Journal of West African Languages 21. 25-36.

IF [OA journal]

1990. Where do ideophones come from? Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 19, 2. 55-76.

Published in http://hdl.handle.net/2142/9370. IF [OA journal]

1989. The extra-high tone in Kisi: Just another tone or a new system of prominence? Current Approaches to African Linguistics 5, ed. Robert D. Botne and Paul Newman. 141-55. Cinnaminson, NJ: Foris.

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1988. The phonology of Kisi ideophones. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 10. 165-90.

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1987. Verb extension renewal in Kisi. Current Approaches to African Linguistics 4, ed. by David Odden. 73-91. Cinnaminson, NJ: Foris.

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1985. An autosegmental analysis of Kisi noun class morphophonemics. Current Approaches to African Linguistics 3, ed. by Gerrit Dimmendaal. 79-92. Cinnaminson, NJ: Foris.

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1983. Noun class affix renewal in Southern West Atlantic. Current Approaches to African Linguistics 2, ed. by Jonathan Kaye et al. 15-29. Cinnaminson, NJ: Foris.

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REVIEWS, CONTRIBUTIONS, RESEARCH REPORTS, ETC.

2019. Sherbro Archives. Documentation: Audio recordings; photographs; video recordings; digital fieldnotes; databases of people and places (data and metadata); lexicon; texts, transcriptions, and grammatical analyses. Endangered Languages Archive, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone; and Portland State University, Portland, Oregon.

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2018a. (with Jubel Brosseau) Ma ŋkath! (‘It’s hard!). A video illustrating the activities and culture of the Sherbro people of Sierra Leone. Distributed to the Sherbro people in August of 2018. 2018b.(with Sasha Krafft & Jedd Schrock). Yi hɔ mbolomdɛ! A graphic introduction to the Sherbro language. Portland, OR: Bolom Press. Distributed to the Sherbro people in June of 2018. 2017a. A Sherbro-English dictionary. Portland, OR: Bolom Press. Distributed to the Sherbro people in Dec 2017.

Not available online? Ask GTC for this

2017b. The Sherbro people of Sierra Leone. A video documenting the people of the Sherbro chiefdoms participating in the Sherbro Language and Culture Project 2015-18. Shown and distributed to the Sherbro people in December of 2017. 2016. Songs of the Shenge Youth Group. Twenty hymns and five videos (DVD). Self-produced. Distributed to the Sherbro people Dec 2016. 2015. Review article: Lüpke, Friederike, and Storch, Anne. 2013. Repertoires and Choices in African Languages. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Language Documentation and Conservation 9, 3: 229- 236. 2012. (ed). Mani Buk 1-4 (A set of graduated Mani readers) and Kasabi cɛ ŋɔ aMani acɛ (A History of the Mani People), as told by Morlay Boyo Keita to Foday JD Camara. Portland, OR: JJJ Publications, Inc. (Distributed to classes in Tangbaya, August 2013). 2011. Bom and Kim Documentation Archives. Documentation: Audio recordings: 425 (228 Kim, 197 Bom); Photographs: 2103; Video recordings: 67 (29 Kim, 38 Bom); Digital fieldnotes 288; Databases (data and metadata) 45; Lexica 2 (2091 entries Kim, 1271 entries Bom); Consultants 212 (93 Kim, 119 Bom); Transcriptions 228 (119 Kim, 109 Bom). Housed in digitized form at the Endangered Languages Archive, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

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https://elar.soas.ac.uk/Search/Results?lookfor=tucker+childs&type=AllFields&view=list&limit=1 0&sort=format_sort+desc%2Cclean_title+asc

2010a. The Bom and Kim people. A video documenting the people of the Kim and Bom chiefdoms participating in the Documenting Kim and Bom Project 2007-10. 2010b. Review article: Bassène, A.-C. (2007). Morphosyntaxe du jóola banjal, langue atlantique du Sénégal. Köln, Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 275-78. 2009. Mani Documentation Archives. Documentation: Audio recordings: 36; Photographs: 700; Video recordings: 13. Databases (data and metadata): Lexicon (2,310 entries), Concordance (1,803 entries), Recordings (36 entries), Subjects (104 entries), Towns (58 entries), Transcriptions (28 entries), Videos (13 entries). Housed in digitized form at Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR), School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Don’t know what to do with it, but its at https://elar.soas.ac.uk/Search/Results?lookfor=tucker+childs&type=AllFields&view=list&limit=10 &sort=format_sort+desc%2Cclean_title+asc

2008a. Language death in West Africa among the Atlantic Group of Niger-Congo. West African Research Association Newsletter, Spring: 1, 14.

IF but not 100% certain it is allowable

2008b. Review article: Voeltz, F. K. Erhard ed. 2006. Studies in African Linguistic Typology. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Studies in Language 32, 4: 917-26. 2007. Review article: Segerer, Guillaume. 2002. La langue Bijogo de Bubaque (Guinée Bissau). Louvain et Paris: Peeters. Afrika und Übersee, 89:245-49. 2006a. Book notice: Doneux, Jean-Léonce (Texte présenté par Véronique Rey). Histoire de la linguistique africaine des précurseurs aux années 70. Aix-en-Provence : Publications de la Université de Provence. 2003. Language, 82, 3. 678-89. 2006b. Book notice: Migge, Bettina. 2003. Creole Formation as Language Contact: The Case of the Suriname Creoles. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Language, 82, 3. 689 2006c. What’s the difference between dialects and languages? The Five-Minute Linguist: Bite-Sized Essays on Language and Languages, ed. by E. M. Rickerson and Barry Hilton. London: Equinox Press. 16-20. 2005a. Contributor, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed. edited by Keith Brown. Oxford, UK: Elsevier. 2005b. What’s the difference between a dialect and a language? Which one do you speak? Contribution to Talkin’ that Talk, a National Public Radio program produced by E. M. Rickerson. Aired 2005. 2001a. Book notice: Ayuninjam, Funwi F. 2000. A Reference Grammar of Mbili, Lanham, New York, and Oxford, UK: University Press of America. Language 76, 2. 492. 2001b. Book review: Bartens, Angela. 2000. Ideophones and Sound Symbolism in Atlantic Creoles (Annales Academiae Scientarum Fennicae, ser. Humaniora, tom. 304). Helsinki: Academiae Scientarum Fennicae. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 17, 2. 284-89. 2001c. Book notice: Hyman, Larry M. and Charles W. Kisseberth (eds.) 1998 Theoretical Aspects of Bantu Tone, Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information. Language 77, 1. 172-73. 2001d. Book notice: James Milroy and Lesley Milroy 1999. Authority in Language (3rd ed.), London and New York: Routledge. Language 77, 1. 173-74.

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2000. Book notice: Bethin, C. Y. 2000. Slavic Prosody: Language Change and Phonological Theory, Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. Language 76, 2, 491-92. 1999a. Book notice: The Language of Emotions: Conceptualization, Expression, and Theoretical Foundation ed. by Susanne Niemeier and René Dirven, 1997. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Language 75, 2: 381-82. 1999b. Book notice: Verbal Art in San Blas: Kuna Culture through its Discourse by Joel Sherzer, 1998, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Language 75, 3:633-34. 1998c. Book notice: Pitch Movements under Time Pressure: Effects of Speech Rate on the Melodic Marking of Accents and Boundaries in Dutch (HIL dissertations, 10). 1994. Johanna Caspers. The Hague: Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics. Language 75, 3: 634-35. 1997. Book notice: A Grammar of Boraana Oromo (Kenya). Cushitic Language Studies, 11. 1995. Harry Stroomer. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. Language 73, 890-91. 1995a. Book notice: Phonological Structure and Phonetic Form: Papers in Laboratory Phonology III, ed. by Patricia A. Keating. Cambridge University Press. Language 71, 4. 848-49. 1995b. Book review: The Phonology of Tone: The Representation of Tonal Register (1993), ed. by Harry van der Hulst & Keith Snider. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 15, 1. 99-101. 1993. Contributor to Atlas of the World's Languages (section on Atlantic languages of Niger-Congo), ed. by Christopher Moseley & R. E. Asher. London: Routledge. 1991. Review article: The Niger-Congo Languages, ed. by John Bendor-Samuel. University Press of America. 1989. Language Learning 41, 2. 603-607. 1989. The state of research on African ideophones for the 20th Conference on African Linguistics. A colloquium. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 19-22 April.

TALKS, COLLOQUIA, PRESENTATIONS, ETC.

2018a. Resilience on Sherbro Island: Three strategies of linguistic adaptation. Paper presented to CRESS (Community Resilience in Ecological Sociological Systems, a research group at Portland State University, Portland, OR).

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2018b. The (socio-)linguistic consequences of migration: The language ecology of Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone. CLAS Migration Cluster Lightning Conference, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 9 Jun.

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2016a. Atlantic and Mande – Where did the word for ‘rice’ come from? 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL47), University of California, Berkeley, March 23-26.

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2016b. The definite article in Mel. 2nd Niger-Congo Congress “Towards Proto-Niger-Congo: Comparison and Reconstruction” Center for African Linguistics, Languages and Cultures (LLACAN), CNRS, Paris. Sept 1-3.

IF

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2016c. The knowledge of ideophones and multilingualism: A West African pilot study. Invited paper, International Symposium on Ideophones / Mimetics, National Institute for and Linguistics (NINJAL), Tokyo, Dec 17-18.

IF [pres also in folder as Ideophones are special]

2016d. Mapping multilingualism among the Sherbro of Sierra Leone. Linguistics Departmental Seminar Series, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. June 8th. Available: https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=SBTqAwA%253D&q=soas+linguistics+seminars

Add youtube? For paper, need author version, not online

2015a. Busy intersections: A framework for the revitalization of African languages. 4th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC4), University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaii. 26 Feb – 1 Mar.

Presentation IF see http://hdl.handle.net/10125/25250 for more info

[A written version of this presentation is available from the author and will appear as, Busy intersections: A framework for revitalization. In Africa’s Endangered Languages, ed. by Jason Kandybowicz and Harold Torrence. Oxford: Oxford University Press.]

IF! [as Busy intersections: A framework for revitalization, bk chapter?] This was already IF above

2015b. The changing world in microcosm: Ebola and the dying languages of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Brown Bag Seminar Series, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, 28 Jan.

In DR

2015c. Coming to terms with Atlantic. 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 46). University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. 26-28 March.

Abstract only avail online, ask for author version

2015d. What are ideophones good for? Moving beyond linguistic structure. Special session: African Ideophones and their Contribution to Linguistics, Eighth World Conference on African Linguistics (WOCAL 8). Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 21-24 August.

Abstract only avail online, ask for author version

2015e. What’s really areal? Evaluating Macro-Sudan and claims for areality in West Africa. Plenary paper. 8th World Conference on African Linguistics (WOCAL 8). Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 21-24 August.

Abstract only avail online, ask for author version

2014a. Busy intersections: A framework for the revitalization of African languages. Invited paper, Workshop on Endangered Languages, 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL45), University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. April 17-19.

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[same as above?]

2014b. Synthesis before the Proto-Niger-Congo inflectional verb: Evidence from the peripheral South Atlantic languages. 44th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL45), University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. April 17-19.

Extended Abstract IF

2013a. (with Jeff Good and Alice Mitchell). Beyond the Ancestral Code. Pre-conference workshop, Georgetown University Roundtable (GURT) / 44th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL44), Georgetown University, Washington, DC, Mar 7-10.

[Already IF above]

2013b. (with Jeff Good and Alice Mitchell) Beyond the ancestral code: Towards a model for sociolinguistic language documentation. 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (3rd ICLDC), University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai’i. Feb 28 – Mar 2.

[Already IF above]

2013c. Ethical dilemmas in documenting dying languages in Guinea and Sierra Leone. Poster as part of "Methodology and Practice in Collaborative Endangered Language Research", a special session of the Linguistic Society of America, 3-6 Jan, Boston, MA.

Not available online/ask for author version?

2013e. Revitalization, technology and literacy on the West African littoral. 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (3rd ICLDC), University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaii. Feb 28 – Mar 2.

Not available online/ask for author version?

2013f. Revitalization without policy: A case study from Sierra Leone. Third Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, July 26.

Not available online/ask for author version?

2012a. Constraints on violating constraints: How languages reconcile the twin dicta of “Be different” and “Be recognizably language”. LSA Special Symposium on Ideophones. 6 January; Portland, OR.

DOI 10.1075/ps.5.3.02chi, PP only

2012b. One language or two? Bom and Kim, two highly endangered South Atlantic languages of Sierra Leone. World Conference on African Linguistics (WOCAL 7). University of Buea, Cameroon. Aug 20-24.

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In Proceedings of the Seventh World Congress of African Linguistics 7th World Congress of African Linguistics, Buea, 17-21 August 2012. Z Not available online ASK GTC

2012c. Piloting technology in language revitalization among the Mani on Tangba Island. 43rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Tulane University, New Orleans, March 15-18.

Unable to locate online; GTC does not seem to be in the X11 proceedings, ask for PP

2012d. Report on “The sociolinguistic documentation of (endangered) languages”. World Conference on African Linguistics (WOCAL 7). University of Buea, Cameroon. Aug 20-24.

Unable to locate online, ask GTC for item

2012e. South Atlantic and greater Niger-Congo: A common verbal template. Niger-Congo International Congress (NigerCongress), Center for African Linguistics, Languages and Cultures (LLACAN), CNRS, Paris. Sept 19-21.

In ISBN 978-9956-764-38-9 v1 not avail online , ask GTC for item

2012f. Workshop on the sociolinguistic documentation of African languages (co-organized with Jeff Good, University of Buffalo), University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, August 17-19.

Not available online

2011a. Moving forward in unity: The Kisi people, united in language and culture. Invited paper presented at the Annual National Meeting of Diompillor (a national association of the Kisi people in the United States). Philadelphia, PA. September 3-5.

Not available online

2011b. Overview of language contact in Africa. IC Workshop, University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL), College Park, MD, June 9.

Not available online

2011c. When is a language really dead? 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; June 10-12.

Not available online

2010a. Documenting the dying: An overview of research on disappearing languages in West Africa. NYU Linguistics Department Colloquium, New York University, Nov 12.

Not available online

2010b. Problems for the salvage linguist: Picking up the pieces after asymmetrical contact. 41st Annual Conference of African Linguistics, University of Toronto, Canada, May 6-8.

Later chapter in Childs, G. Tucker (2014) Problems for the salvage linguist: Picking up the pieces after asymmetrical contact. In and Out of Africa: Languages in Question In Honour of

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Robert Nicolaï. Vol. 2: Language Contact and Language Change in Africa. ed. Carole de Féral, Maarten Kossmann & Mauro Tosco. Leuven: Peeters. pp. 73-93

2009a. The disappearance of African languages, who cares? The documentation of the South Atlantic languages in Guinea and Sierra Leone, Walter Rodney Lecture Series, Boston University. October 26.

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2009b. The disappearing languages of Sierra Leone: Documenting the dying South Atlantic languages Mani, Kim, and Bom. University Public Lecture, Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone.

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2009c. How to pretend you speak a dying language when you don’t really know how to speak it: methodological worries in documenting dying languages. Invited plenary paper presented at WOCAL 6 (Cologne, Germany), August 17-21, 2009.

See ISBN 978-3-89645-199-6 for proceedings $ Ask GTC for his version

2009d. The technology and tribulations of documenting dying languages in West Africa. Berglund Roundtable Series at Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon, October 13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJw6j5zkYBM

Add youtube video to archive?

2009e. Pushed beyond the edge: Salvage linguistics. Harvard Workshop on Language Universals and Linguistic Fieldwork, Harvard University, October 27.

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2008a. The Mande and Atlantic Groups of Niger-Congo: Prolonged contact with asymmetrical consequences. Keynote address delivered to the EU Workshop “Documenting convergence and diversity – Mande and Atlantic languages in contact”, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, September 6-9.

This was published in a book later, not avial online, ask GTC

2008b. The social embedding of ideophones: some evidence from Africa. Linguistics Departmental Seminar Series, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Jan 15.

not avial online, ask GTC

2007a. Endangered languages of West Africa: What can be salvaged? Africa Table Lecture Series, African Studies, Oct. 3, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

not avial online, ask GTC

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2007b. The ethics of documenting dying languages: failures, successes, and prospects in coastal Guinea and Sierra Leone. Field Data Group, Oct 3. University of California, Berkeley, CA.

not avial online, ask GTC

2007c. Documenting Kim and Bom, two dying languages of the southern coast of Sierra Leone. Invited paper for a panel “Endangered Languages in Africa, What can be done?”, 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, 22-25 March, University of Florida, Gainesville.

not avial online, ask GTC

2007d. Genetic unity, typology, and proximity: Tone, accent and other prosodic phenomena in the Atlantic Group. Invited paper delivered at an international workshop “The Atlantic Languages: Genetic or Typological Unit?”, Feb 17-18, University of Hamburg, Asien-Afrika-Institut (AAI).

not avial online, ask GTC

2007e. Trade, Islam, and militarism: Contact phenomena and language death in the Atlantic Group. Invited paper delivered at an international workshop “The Atlantic Languages: Genetic or Typological Unit?”, Feb 17-18, University of Hamburg, Asien-Afrika-Institut (AAI).

not avial online, ask GTC

2007f. What happens to class when a language dies? Language change vs. language death. Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 38), University of Florida, Gainesville, 22-25 March.

The X30 version published in SAL, IF above 2006a. The loss of linguistic and biological diversity: Endangered languages of coastal West Africa. Paper presented to the Nature Conservancy, Boston, MA. July 7.

Not avail online ask GTC

2006b. Dying languages in Guinea and Sierra Leone. The Mani Documentation Project. Paper presented to the Student Organization of Applied Linguistics (SOAL), Portland State University, Portland, OR. May 10.

Not avail online ask GTC

2006c. Don't overexpect! Documenting a dying language among the mangroves of West Africa. 37th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, April 6-9, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.

Not avail online ask GTC

2006d. The dying languages of Sierra Leone: Mani, Krim, and Bom. Paper presented to the US Embassy, Freetown, Sierra Leone; March 16.

Not avail online ask GTC

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2006e. Une langue en danger de disparition : Le Project de documenter la langue mani au Samou de Guinée. Paper presented to the American Cultural Center, Conakry, Guinea; March 9.

Not avail online ask GTC

2004a. The creativity of a pidgin: the South African varieties Isicamtho and Tsotsitaal. Annual Meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Boston, MA, Jan. 9-10.

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2004b. Pidgin genesis: a resource not a liability. Invited paper presented as part of a symposium on "Language Birth" at the AAAS Annual Meeting: “Science at the Leading Edge” (Feb. 12-17, Seattle, WA).

Not avail online ask GTC

2004c. What’s new under the African sun: Language shift, death, maintenance, birth, and revitalization. Anthropology Students Association, Portland State University, May 19.

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2003a. It’s everywhere! More on the S-Aux-O-V-Other syntagm in the Atlantic languages. 33rd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL), Leiden University (Netherlands). August 24-27.

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2003b. Genetic or Areal? The S-Aux-O-V-Other syntagm in the Atlantic languages. Distributive Predicative Syntax Workshop, WOCAL 4 / ACAL 34, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 18-22 June; also presented to the SIL International Colloquium, Eugene, OR (17 July).

Not avail online ask GTC

2003c. Language death within Atlantic: Survival strategies and language change. Symposium on Marginalized and Endangered Languages: Documenting the Linguistic Diversity on the African Continent, WOCAL 4 / ACAL 34, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 18-22 June.

Not avail online ask GTC

2002a. The Portland Dialect Survey: some preliminary results. Teaching and Learning with Technology Fair. Center for Academic Excellence, Portland State University, May 1.

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2002b. Language creation by necessity, linguistic ramifications of the African Diaspora. Symposium on Freedom in Black History, February 1, Black Studies Department, Portland State University, Portland, OR.

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2002c. Language in the city: Portland and elsewhere. Invited paper, “Urban Life: Myths and Realities”, Cascade/Open Campus Diversity Events (Winter 2002), January 30, Portland Community College, Cascade Campus.

Not avail online ask GTC

2002d. Fieldwork on the dying language Mani in southeastern coastal Guinea. Foundation for Endangered Languages, San Francisco, Jan 5.

Not avail online ask GTC

2002e. Further evidence for Guinea Pidgin French. Annual Meeting of the Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics (SPCL), San Francisco. January 4-5.

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2001a. What’s so Atlantic about Atlantic? 31st Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL), Leiden University, Netherlands. August 27-30.

Not avail online ask GTC

2001b. Language contact, language typology, and language death: the case of Mani. Fourth International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT IV), University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, July 19-22.

Not avail online ask GTC

2001c. The Atlantic-Mande interface, typological disparates in contact. Invited paper International Symposium on “Areal and contact phenomena in West African Languages”, Institute of African Studies, University of Cologne, Germany, May 21-24.

Not avail online ask GTC

2001d. Field methods on a dying language: looking for the last Mani speakers in the Samou region of Guinea. Linguistics Department Colloquium, University of Oregon, May 15.

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2001e. The Portland Dialect Survey. Teaching and Learning with Technology Fair. Center for Academic Excellence, Portland State University, May 2. 2001f. Language contact and language death: The case of Mani. 32nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 32), University of California, Berkeley, CA, March 23-26.

[No proceeding for this X11] ask GTC

2000a. Atlantic and Mande: A study in contrasts, a study in interaction. Invited paper, International Symposium on the Areal Typology of West African Languages, University of Leipzig, / Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, September 1-2.

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2000b. The appropriation of French in Guinea / L’appropriation du français en Guinée. 3rd World Conference on African Linguistics (WOCAL), August 21-26, Université du Bénin, Lomé, Togo.

ISBN 978-3-89645-335-8 for info--$$- Not avail online ask GTC

2000c. The Kisi-Maninka interface. West African Linguistics Society (WALS), University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, August 15-19.

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1999a. Note sur le français guinéen. A first pass at Guinea French. Paper delivered at the Ninth International Colloquium on Creole Studies (9o Colloque International des Études Créoles), Aix- en-Provence (France), 24-29 June and at the 28th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden (Netherlands), August 30-Sept 1.

Not avail online ask GTC 1999b. A first pass at Guinea French. 28th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL), Leiden University, Netherlands, August 30-Sept 1.

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1999c. Why tone is retained in the southern Atlantic languages of West Africa. Workshop on Change in Prosodic Systems, 21st Annual Meeting of the German Society of Linguistics (DGIS), Feb 24-26.

Not avail online ask GTC

1999d. Redirecting the study of African ideophones. Invited paper, Cologne Symposium on Ideophones, Institut für Afrikanistik of the Universität zu Köln, January 25-27.

Not avail online ask GTC

1998a. Mande expansionism and Atlantic borrowings. 27th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL), Leiden, August 29-Sept 1; 29th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 29), Yale University, March 26-29. 1998b. Explanations for the social distribution of ideophones. Cognitive Anthropology Group, Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, August 8; African Languages Working Group, Zürich University, Zürich, Switzerland, July 2. 1997a. Prosodic typology and language change: the role of social factors in West Africa. 27th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden, August 28-30. 1997b. Predicate clefting in Kisi. 23rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Special Session on the Syntax and Semantics of African Languages. Berkeley, CA, Feb. 14-17. 1995a. Factors favoring the retention of tone in the Atlantic languages of West Africa. Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA), Université de Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, 2-5 June. 1995b. From tone to accent, inside and out. 26th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL), University of California, Los Angeles, 24-26 Mar. 1994a. Where have all the ideophones gone? The death of a word category in the Zulu language. Linguistics Department Symposium, University of Toronto, 18 November. 1994b. Tsotsitaal, an aging urban vernacular, erstwhile pidgin? Annual Meeting of the Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Boston, 6-9 January.

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1993a. Isicamtho and other urban vernaculars. Discussion panel organized for ALASA 93, 6-9 June. Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand. 1993b. Focus constructions in Kisi. Linguistics Seminar, University of the Witwatersrand, 25 March. 1993c. Isicamtho and Tsotsitaal: Two functionally similar but typologically and socio-historically distinct South African urban varieties. Annual Meeting of the Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Los Angeles, 7-10 January. 1993d. Under-reporting the use of expressive language: The case of Zulu ideophones. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles, 7-11 Jan. 1992a. Here today, gone tomorrow: Ideophones from a diachronic perspective. Sociolinguistics Symposium 9, University of Reading (UK), 2-4 April; 23rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Michigan State University, East Lansing (MI), 26-29 Mar. 1992b. The expressive function in pidgin and creole languages: The case of African ideophones. Annual Meeting of the Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Philadelphia, 10-11 Jan. 1991a. Why linguists are interested in African languages: a theoretical and descriptive overview. Archaeology Society of South Africa, Johannesburg, 5 Oct. 1991b. Ideophone variation: where does it come from? 6th ALASA Conference, University of Port Elizabeth, Port Elizabeth (RSA), 3-6 July. 1990. Nasality in the Atlantic languages. 21st Annual Conference on African linguistics, University of Georgia, Athens,12-14 April. 1989. Organizer’s summary of a Colloquium: The state of research on African ideophones organized for the 20th Conference on African Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 19-22 April. 1988. Cross-speaker variation in ideophones: Where's the community agreement? 19th Conference on African Linguistics, Boston University, 14-17 April. 1987a. A prototype definition for ideophones. 18th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Montréal, 23-26 April. 1987b. The communicative hierarchy: word, sentence, and discourse. Invited paper, African Language Proficiency Workshop II, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 14 May. 1984. An autosegmental treatment of Kisi noun class morphophonemics. 16th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, 23-26 April. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 1983. Noun class affix renewal in Southern West Atlantic. 15th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Université de Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec (Canada).

MEDIA

2016. Contributor to Last Whispers: A Concerto for Vanished Voices, Collapsing Universes and a Falling Tree (a sound installation accompanied by a video element), by Lena Herzog. Bloomsbury Festival. London: British Museum. October 21-23, 2016. http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/event_detail.aspx?eventId=3266&title= Last%20Whispers:%20Concerto%20for%20Vanished%20Voices,%20Collapsing%20Universes% 20and%20a%20Falling%20Tree&eventType=Special%20event (last checked 4 Sept 16) 2016b. Radio interview: "Language variation in Portland”, part of an XRAY FM series ”Divisions between people in Portland". August 24th, Portland, OR. Available at the following website, https://xray.fm/broadcasts/13093 (from about 1:00 to 1:15, last checked 4 Sept 16). Interviewed on the topics of language differences, variation within English, and multilingualism. 2015. Research profile: Documenting the endangered languages and cultures of Africa’s West Coast. Portland State University. https://www.pdx.edu/profile/documenting-endangered-languages-and- cultures-africas-west-coast (last accessed 18 Aug 2017) 2013. Interview forming part of a report on endangered languages on International Mother Language Day, Terra Networks (Brazil). 21 Feb.

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2012. Documenting and revitalizing the endangered language Mani in Tangbaya. BBC interview as part of Radio Kolenten broadcast conducted by Alfred Kargbo, Kambia, Sierra Leone. 15 Feb. 2010. Four video blogs (“vlogs”) produced with Bart Childs, Journalist and Senior TV Production Specialist, Voice of America, Washington, DC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYGV-4Mqn6s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QswJDmzSua8&feature=relmfu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHN6mDDlTqs&feature=relmfu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84S9pZozGj4&feature=relmfu 2009a. Research on the dying languages of Sierra Leone. Interview forming part of “Education Forum”, Cotton Tree News (radio). 6 Dec. Freetown, Sierra Leone. 2009b. La documentation de Mani, une langue en danger de disparaitre. Interview part of Forum Africain, Voice of America television for Francophone Africa. 17 April. Conakry, Guinea. 2009c. Digital tools transform the art of preserving a dying language / Scientist at Work: Tucker Childs. Linguist’s Preservation Kit Has New Digital Tools by Chris Nicholson. (July 4-5 in the International Herald Tribune (pp. 1, 3) / July 28 in the New York Times, Science Section, G3). Paris and New York. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/science/28prof.html?_r=1 (last accessed 15 Sept 09) 2009d. Endangered languages: Saving voices before they are lost. Panel discussion produced by Voice of America, Washington, DC, June 9, 2009. http://www.voanews.com/english/Endangered_Languages.cfm (last accessed 4 July 09) 2009e. Preserving Languages Radio New Zealand National NIGHTS. Sept 7, 2009. http://www.radionz.co.nz/search?mode=results&queries_all_query=tucker+childs (last accessed 9 Sept 09) Auckland, New Zealand. 2009f. PSU Linguist Documents Endangered African Languages by Geoff Norcross. Sept 2, 2009. Oregon Public Broadcasting, http://news.opb.org/article/5768-psu-linguist-documents- endangered-african-languages/ (last accessed 7 Sept 09). Portland, OR. 2008a. “Fading Voices” by Jeff Kuechle. Portland State University Magazine, 18 Jan 2008. http://www.pdx.edu/magazine/news/fading-voices (last accessed 9/9/09). Portland State University, Portland, OR. 2008b. A progress report on the Project Documenting the Kim and Bom languages of Sierra Leone. Cotton Tree News radio, 20 Dec 08. Freetown, Sierra Leone. 2007. How to do research: Introducing the Project Documenting the Kim and Bom languages of Sierra Leone. Cotton Tree News radio, 10 Dec 07. Freetown, Sierra Leone.

THESES

The Phonology and Morphology of Kisi. 1988. Ph.D., Linguistics. University of California, Berkeley, CA. The Evolution of noun class markers in the southern Atlantic languages. 1982. M.A., Linguistics. University of California, Berkeley, CA. “One question, silly question”: Analyzing the therapist in a therapeutic interview. 1980. M.S. thesis, Sociolinguistics. Georgetown University. Washington, DC.

SERVICE

2019. Reviewer. Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO, the Dutch Research Council) 2019-present. Member, Educational Policy Committee. Portland State University. 2015-present. Editorial Advisory Board, Language Documentation and Description, London: EL Publishing. 2015-present. Editorial Board. Journal of Sierra Leone Studies. Cambridge, UK: The Centre for African Studies, Cambridge University.

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2013-present, Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation (CELP), Linguistic Society of America, Washington, DC. 2012-present. American Council on Education (ACE). Evaluator. Washington, DC. 2011-present. Editorial Board, Endangered Languages Series, Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter Publishers. 2005-present. Committee on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics (CEDL), Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Mentor, Washington, DC. 2004-present, Editorial Board, Journal of Languages in Contact (JLC). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Publishers. 2003-present. LINGUA, Eidgenössisches Justiz- und Polizeidepartement EJPD, Bundesamt für Migration Direktionsbereich Asylverfahren, Sektion Lingua, Service Center. 2000-present. Editorial Board, African Languages Series, Routledge. New York. 2018-19. Ph.D. Thesis committee member. Anna Belew, “Language shift in Lyasa: Sociolinguistic investigation and documentation”, Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. 2018. Reviewer. “The numeral system of Proto-Niger-Congo: A step-by-step reconstruction”. Leipzig: Language Science Press. 2017-. Member, three PSU research groups (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences): Pathways to Social Justice, Migration, and Community Resilience in Socio-Ecological Systems (CRESS). 2016. Reviewer, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize Nomination Committee, Deutsche Forschungs- gemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), Germany. Sept, 2016. 2016. Fulbright Speaker Event / World Affairs Council. Panel discussion on the value of a Fulbright to one’s career. Portland, OR: World Affairs Council. 26 Apr 2016. 2015-16. Scientific Committee, Second Congress “Towards Proto-Niger-Congo: Comparison and Reconstruction” (NigerCongo II), Sept. 1-4, 2016, Paris, France. 2015. Referee. Marie Curie Junior and Senior Fellowships, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS, www.frias.uni-freiburg.de) and the University of Freiburg. 2015-16. Referee. Atlantic, ed. by Friederike Lüpke. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2015. Referee. Proceedings of ACAL 46 (University of Oregon, Eugene, OR; March 26-28, 2015), ed. Doris Payne and Mokaya Bosire. Leipzig: Language Science Press. 2015. Reader, Resolution of Thanks, Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Jan 7-10, Portland, OR. 2015. Referee. Applied Linguistics. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 2014. Panel presenter and discussant, “Careers built out of Peace Corps experience”, sponsored jointly by the Columbia River Peace Corps Association, the United Nations Association of Portland, and the World Affairs Council of Oregon, Portland, Oregon. 2014-17, Member of the Faculty Senate, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon. 2012-18. Steering Committee, World Conference on African Linguistics (WOCAL). Cologne, Germany. 2012-14. Shop Steward, American Association of University Professors, PSU chapter, Portland State University, Portland, OR. (Resigned after becoming Chair of Linguistics, Jan 2015.) 2010-18. Committee of Editors of Linguistics Journals (CELxJ), Linguistic Society of America, Washington, DC. 2009-18. Editor, Studies in African Linguistics, Portland, OR: Portland State University. 2008-09. Academic Congress Committee, World Conference on African Linguistics (WOCAL) 6 (17-21 Aug 2009; Cologne, Germany) 2005-06. African Studies Association (ASA), Local Arrangements Committee, San Francisco, CA. 2001-16. Steering Committee, Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL). 2001-04. Academic Advisory Committee, French American International School, Portland, OR. 2001-03. Center for Academic Excellence Advisory Council, Portland State University, Portland, OR. 2000-05. Associate Editor, Iconicity in Language 2000-03. Oregon University System French Executive Board.

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2000-03. Executive Council, American Association of University Professors, Portland State University, Portland, OR. 1999-2009. Associate Editor, Studies in African Linguistics. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University; and Columbus, Ohio:The Ohio State University. 1994-97. Editorial Advisory Committee, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

MEMBERSHIPS

Honorary member and elder, Diompillor, Inc. (the national association of Kisi people in America); Linguistic Society of America; Sierra Leone Linguistic Society (SLINGS); West African Linguistics Society (WALS); West African Research Association (WARA).

REVIEWER

Africana Linguistica, Musée Royale, Tervuren (Belgium); Afrika und Übersee (Germany); Agence National de la Recherche (ANR), Paris; Diachronica (Netherlands); Cambridge University Press; Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) Proceedings; Dirasat (sociolinguistics journal, Jordan); Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP), School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; French National Research Agency / Agence National de la Recherche (ANR), Paris; Typological Studies in Linguistics, John Benjamins (Holland); International Journal of Multilingualism, Taylor and Francis; Language Documentation and Conservation (University of Hawai’i); Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (Leiden, The Netherlands), Journal of the International Phonetic Association (Canada), Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (John Benjamins), Journal of West African Languages (UK); Language, Language Science Press, Leipzig, Germany; Linguistic Society of America; MacArthur Fellows Program, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities; National Science Foundation; Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO, the Dutch Research Council); Oxford University Press; Phonology; Noun class systems of North Atlantic, ed. Denis Creissels and Konstantin Podzniakov; Routledge; Research Grants & Partnership Division, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC); Revue canadienne de linguistique / Canadian Journal of Linguistics; Studies in African Linguistics, Studies in Language (UK), Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, University of Illinois; Taylor and Francis; Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF); Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics (Canada); University of British Columbia Press (First Nations Series); University of California Press; Wiley-Blackwell; World Congress on African Linguistics (WOCAL 3, 4, and 7).

EXTERNAL REVIEWER (Promotion and Tenure)

Speech and Hearing, Portland State University (2017); Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young University (2014); School of Humanities, University of Hong Kong (2013); Department of African Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2013); School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (2014, 2012); School of Education, Portland State University (2013, 2012); Department of Linguistics, University of Florida (2010); Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Pomona College, California (2011); Langage, Langues et Cultures d’Afrique Noire (LLACAN), Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris (2009).

LANGUAGES

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• Languages spoken: English (First language); French (Advanced); Swahili (Advanced); Liberian English (Advanced); Kisi (Intermediate); Spanish (Intermediate), Krio (Intermediate), Mani (Beginning), Bom-Kim (Beginning), Sherbro (Beginning) • Languages read: English (First language); French (Superior); Swahili (Advanced); Spanish (Advanced); German (Intermediate); Latin (Intermediate) • Languages studied (in alphabetical order): Afrikaans, Bom, Chinuk Wawa, Fanagalo, Fante, Igbo, Isicamtho, Kim, Kisi, Krio, Guinea French, Liberian English, Mandinka, Mani, Mende, Sherbro, Soso, Sudanese Arabic, Swahili, Tsotsitaal, Venda, Yoruba, Wolof, Zulu. • Languages taught: English, English as a second language, Swahili, Kisi.

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