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Plant recognition by Northern Khmer children in Ban Khanat Pring and Ban Ramboe Villages, Surin Province, Thailand (2022)
Journal Article
Ungsitipoonporn, S., Simard, C., & Sallabank, J. Plant recognition by Northern Khmer children in Ban Khanat Pring and Ban Ramboe Villages, Surin Province, Thailand. South East Asia Research, 30(2), 180-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828x.2022.2038019

This article arises from a project that explores the acquisition of ethnobotanical knowledge in Northern Khmer-speaking communities in northeast Thailand, in response to the wish expressed by villagers to preserve their knowledge of the surrounding T... Read More about Plant recognition by Northern Khmer children in Ban Khanat Pring and Ban Ramboe Villages, Surin Province, Thailand.

Fronted NPs in a verb-initial language – clause-internal or external? Prosodic cues to the rescue! (2017)
Journal Article
Simard, C., & Wegener, C. Fronted NPs in a verb-initial language – clause-internal or external? Prosodic cues to the rescue!. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 2(1;51), 1-32. https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.211

This paper investigates prosodic features of fronted constituents in the verb-initial Oceanic language Gela (spoken by about 16.000 people in Solomon Islands). Although Gela’s basic constituent order is verb-(object-)subject/predicate-subject, consti... Read More about Fronted NPs in a verb-initial language – clause-internal or external? Prosodic cues to the rescue!.

Savosavo word stress: A quantitative analysis (2014)
Journal Article
Simard, C., Wegener, C., Lee, A., Chiu, F., & Youngberg, C. (2014). Savosavo word stress: A quantitative analysis. https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2014-90

This paper presents a quantitative analysis of stress in Savosavo (Papuan isolate), an endangered language spoken on Savo Island (Solomon Islands. Acoustic analyses comprise the measurements of F0, duration, and intensity for each syllable in a datas... Read More about Savosavo word stress: A quantitative analysis.

Prosodic encoding of declarative, interrogative and imperative sentences in Jaminjung, a language of Australia (2013)
Journal Article
Simard, C. (2013). Prosodic encoding of declarative, interrogative and imperative sentences in Jaminjung, a language of Australia. https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2013-229

This paper examines the prosodic encoding of sentence types in Jaminjung, a language of Northern Australia. Analyses cover the description of the contours as well as a systematic acoustic analysis, comprising the measurements of F0, duration, pitch e... Read More about Prosodic encoding of declarative, interrogative and imperative sentences in Jaminjung, a language of Australia.

Constraints on noun phrase discontinuity in an Australian language: The role of prosody and information structure (2012)
Journal Article
Schultze-Berndt, E., & Simard, C. (2012). Constraints on noun phrase discontinuity in an Australian language: The role of prosody and information structure. Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences, 50(5), 1015-1058. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2012-0032

Discontinuous noun phrases have posed a long-standing challenge for syntactic analysis. While there exists increasing evidence that discontinuous NPs are associated with specific information structure constellations crosslinguistically, Australian la... Read More about Constraints on noun phrase discontinuity in an Australian language: The role of prosody and information structure.