CONTENTS ICLDC 4 PROGRAM Table of Contents WELCOME 3 ORGANIZERS 4 SPONSORS 5 INFORMATION 8 ACTIVITIES 9 SCHEDULE GRID 10 PLENARIES 12 MASTER CLASSES (MC) 14 SPECIAL SESSIONS (SS) 20 PAPERS, THURSDAY (1.1–1.5) 21 PAPERS, FRIDAY (2.1–2.7) 26 PAPERS, SATURDAY (3.1–3.8) 33 PAPERS, SUNDAY (4.1–4.4) 41 POSTERS, THURSDAY (P1) 45 POSTERS, FRIDAY (P2) 48 ELECTRONIC POSTERS (EP) 51 LANGUAGE INDEX 53 PRESENTER INDEX 54 ADVERTISEMENTS 63 2015 • Honolulu, HI • 4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation 1 WELCOME Welcome to the 4th International Conference ICLDC 4 also features four Special Sessions on on Language Documentation and Conservation Pedagogy in Language Conservation. Each session (ICLDC 4). We are excited about this conference, contains four talks and is focused on a theme and are pleased that you are able to join us. Whether relating to the notion of pedagogy for endangered you are a veteran participant or a frst-timer to language teaching. We again thank the National Hawai‘i and the ICLDC, we welcome you warmly. E Science Foundation for their support for the Special komo mai! Sessions. Tanks to your genuine interest in language Like at ICLDC 3, we are featuring our expanded diversity worldwide, ICLDC continues to Poster Sessions, which include an Electronic Poster fourish. For the current conference, the Program session. Te Electronic Poster presentations will Committee anonymously reviewed 237 abstracts, enable attendees to try out new sofware products and we accepted 121 paper presentations. Te and tools, and meet directly with their developers. result is an excellent conference program with Please be sure to visit the Poster Sessions afer lunch. diverse presentations on more than 100 languages, For the frst time we are also pleased to ofer special representing peoples and cultures from all over pricing for participants from developing nations, the world. allowing enhanced access to the conference. Te theme of ICLDC 4, “Enriching Teory, Practice, We invite you to take some time to review the & Application,” highlights the need to strengthen the program for additional information about the links between language documentation (practice), conference and the social events available to you. As deep understanding of grammatical structure our guests and colleagues, please do not hesitate to (theory), and methods for teaching endangered ask for help from any of our conference volunteers, languages (application). We are delighted to have who are easily identifed by their purple conference two distinguished plenarists who will address this T-shirts. We also hope you will enjoy our new theme: Lenore Grenoble (John Matthews Manly venue at the Ala Moana Hotel. We’ve outgrown our Distinguished Service Professor in the Department previous space, and are pleased to be able to hold of Linguistics at the University of Chicago), and the ICLDC at a location that will allow you to take Anthony Woodbury (Department of Linguistics, advantage of all that Honolulu has to ofer. University of Texas at Austin). We are very grateful to the sponsoring agencies and Building on the success of our Master Class program to the dedicated individuals—especially our student at ICLDC 3, we have expanded our Master Class volunteers—who have devoted countless hours of oferings at ICLDC 4. Participants can choose from support and energy to the success of this conference. twelve two-hour classes that span a range of levels We hope you will fnd ICLDC 4 productive and from non-specialist, to intermediate, to advanced, enjoyable. We look forward to welcoming you again and a range of topics from language acquisition, to to ICLDC 5 in 2017! intonation, to tone, to deixis. Tanks once again to a generous grant from the National Science Foundation, the Master Classes are included in With warm aloha, the conference registration fee, and are open to all ICLDC attendees on a frst-come, frst-served basis. Master Classes will be held on the three afernoons Andrea L. Berez, Victoria Anderson, & Jim Yoshioka of the conference. ICLDC Executive Committee 2015 • Honolulu, HI • 4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation 3 ORGANIZERS ICLDC Executive Committee Abstract Review Committee Andrea L. Berez, co-chair (Linguistics, UH Mānoa) Helen Aristar-Dry (University of Texas) Victoria Anderson, co-chair (Linguistics, UH Mānoa) Melissa Axelrod (University of New Mexico) Jim Yoshioka, coordinator (NFLRC, UH Mānoa) Linda Barwick (University of Sydney) Willem de Reuse (University of North Texas) ICLDC Advisory Committee Lise Dobrin (University of Virginia) Pattie Epps (University of Texas at Austin) Kenneth L. Rehg (Linguistics, UH Mānoa) Colleen Fitzgerald (University of Texas at Arlington) Julio Rodriguez (NFLRC, UH Mānoa) Margaret Florey (Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity) Lyle Campbell (Linguistics, UH Mānoa) Payi Linda Ford (Charles Darwin University) Larry Kimura (Hawaiian Language, UH Hilo) Jef Good (SUNY Bufalo) Yuko Otsuka (Linguistics, UH Mānoa) Gary Holton (Alaska Native Language Center) Nick Tieberger (Linguistics, University of Melbourne) Gwen Hyslop (Australian National University) Andrew Garrett (Linguistics, UC Berkeley) Carmen Jany (California State University, San Bernardino) Ulrike Mosel (University of Kiel) Student Steering Committee Åshild Naess (University of Newcastle) Susan Penfeld (University of Arizona) Kevin Baetscher (Linguistics, UH Mānoa) Gabriela Pérez Báez (Smithsonian Institution) Anna Belew (Linguistics, UH Mānoa) Keren D. Rice (University of Toronto) Tobias Bloyd (Linguistics, UH Mānoa) Sally Rice (University of Alberta) Amber Camp (Linguistics, UH Mānoa) Hiroko Sato (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa) Brenda Clark (Linguistics, UH Mānoa) Gary Simons (SIL International) Meagan Dailey (Linguistics, UH Mānoa) Nicholas Tieberger (University of Melbourne) John Elliott (Linguistics, UH Mānoa) Tim Tornes (Boise State University) Katie Gao (Linguistics, UH Mānoa) Myfany Turpin (University of Queensland) Melissa Gibson (Linguistics, UH Mānoa) Racquel Sapién (University of Oklahoma) Bryn Hauk (Linguistics, UH Mānoa) Laura Welcher (Te Long Now Foundation) Raina Heaton (Linguistics, UH Mānoa) Ryan Henke (Linguistics, UH Mānoa) Kavon Hooshiar (Linguistics, UH Mānoa) Review Committee for Organized Sessions Catherine Lee (Linguistics, UH Mānoa) on Pedagogy in Language Conservation Samantha Rarrick (Linguistics, UH Mānoa) Candace Galla (University of British Columbia) Bradley Rentz (Linguistics, UH Mānoa) John Hobson (University of Sydney) Nicholas Toler (Linguistics, UH Mānoa) Nancy Hornberger (University of Pennsylvania) Sarah Uno (Linguistics, UH Mānoa) Judith Maxwell (Tulane University) Bonnie Windham (Linguistics, UH Mānoa) Dick Schmidt (UH Mānoa) 4 4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation • Honolulu, HI • 2015 SPONSORS National Science Foundation (NSF) by members of endangered language communities in the conservation, documentation, and description of Te National Science Foundation (NSF) is an their languages, and thus encourages engagement with independent federal agency created by Congress in language communities in planning, education, and 1950 “to promote the progress of science; to advance research. the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure In addition, the department contributes to the the national defense...” With an annual budget of about interdisciplinary efort to understand the workings of $7.2 billion (FY 2014), NSF is the funding source for the human mind through its experimental work on the approximately 24 percent of all federally supported basic language faculty, centered around the College’s Language research conducted by America’s colleges and universities. Analysis and Experimentation (LAE) Laboratories. Much In many felds such as mathematics, computer science of our faculty’s research in this area focuses on language and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal acquisition, processing, prosody, and the impact of social backing. factors on language use. NSF fulflls its mission chiefy by issuing limited- Te department sponsors the journal Oceanic term grants—currently about 11,000 new awards per Linguistics—the only journal devoted exclusively to the year, with an average duration of three years—to fund study of the indigenous languages of Oceania. It also specifc research proposals that have been judged the produces Language Documentation & Conservation most promising by a rigorous and objective merit- (http://www.nfrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/), a free, online peer- review system. Most of these awards go to individuals reviewed journal sponsored by the National Foreign or small groups of investigators. Others provide funding Language Resource Center. Language Documentation for research centers, instruments and facilities that & Conservation is the frst journal to deal with matters allow scientists, engineers and students to work at the of documentation and conservation. It is published outermost frontiers of knowledge. exclusively in electronic form by the University of Hawai‘i NSF’s goals—discovery, learning, research infrastructure Press, and it is now in its ninth year. and stewardship—provide an integrated strategy to Te department is also home to the Language advance the frontiers of knowledge, cultivate a world- Documentation Training Center, a project started by class, broadly inclusive science and engineering workforce graduate students in 2004 to help train native speakers and expand the scientifc literacy of all citizens,