Research
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Latest funding
- $74,471
Moving Matter: Organic Encounters
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $34,758
qwaqwasen te sqwalten: the language is blossoming
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $68,021
Interweaving stories, conversation, and an e-dictionary: Comox-Sliammon language documentation for the future
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
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Moving Matter: Organic Encounters
Principal investigators: Kitsos, Robert R.
Keywords: Dance; Design; Transdisciplinary collaboration; Costume design; Wearables; Sustainable textiles; Choreography; Materiality; Performance/Installation
qwaqwasen te sqwalten: the language is blossoming
Principal investigators: Urbanczyk, Suzanne
Keywords: pentl'ach; language reconstruction; collaborative methodologies; Indigenist methodologies; historical linguistics
Interweaving stories, conversation, and an e-dictionary: Comox-Sliammon language documentation for the future
Principal investigators: Huijsmans, Marianne E.B.
Keywords: language documentation; collaborative research; language reclamation; computational linguistics
Hehewshin (moving forward) Developing a strategic plan for revitalizing 7ay7ajuthem
Principal investigators: Urbanczyk, Suzanne C.
Keywords: Indigenous language revitalization; strategic planning; collaborative research
Hul'q'umi'num' stories: the prosodics and pragmatics of performance
Principal investigators: Gerdts, Donna B.
Keywords: Coast Salish; stories; First Nations languages; linguistic analysis
Picking up the strands: weaving together multimedia documentation in developing corpora for Salish and Wakashan language and music
Principal investigators: Urbanczyk, Suzanne C.
Keywords: language revitalization; salish; wakashan; corpus linguistics; corpus-aided discovery learning; music
Language revitalization in Vancouver Island Salish communities: a multimedia approach
Keywords: First Nations languages; Salish languages; language research; language revitalization; second language acquisition; second language learning; pedagogy; e-learning; internet; language planning; grammars; dictionaries
Salish prosodic morphology and contrast in optimality theory
Principal investigators: Urbanczyk, Suzanne C.
Keywords: salish; morphology; non-concatenative; optimality theory; contrast
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