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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!.

On being First (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Simard, C. (2015, December). On being First. Presented at Workshop on Information Structure in Spoken Language Corpora (ISSLaC2), CNRS, Paris, France

In a typological perspective, first positions in sentences have been associated with information flow (Firbas 1964). Corpus research in the world languages has yielded two major, and seemingly opposing, ordering patterns: 1) a ‘given-before-new’ orde... Read More about On being First.

On the topic of insubordinate clauses (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Simard, C., & Schultze-Berndt, E. (2015, September). On the topic of insubordinate clauses. Paper presented at 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leiden, Netherlands

Topics: what does prosody have to say? (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Simard, C., & Schultze-Berndt, E. (2015, May). Topics: what does prosody have to say?. Paper presented at Information structure in Endangered Languages, SOAS

Language(s) in Context (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Simard, C. (2014, October). Language(s) in Context. Presented at Plants.Animals.Words, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

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.

Another look at right-detached NPs (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Simard, C. (2013, December). Another look at right-detached NPs. Presented at Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 4 Conference (LDLT4), London, United Kingdom

This paper proposes an analysis of right-detached NPs constructions in Jaminjung, a language of Northern Australia, in which right-detached NPs serve different discourse functions, either as reactivated topics or as afterthoughts, a distinction estab... Read More about Another look at right-detached NPs.

The expression of argument focus in Ngarinyman, Jaminjung, Savosavo and Gela (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schultze-Berndt, E., Wegener, C., & Simard, C. (2013, June). The expression of argument focus in Ngarinyman, Jaminjung, Savosavo and Gela. Paper presented at Workshop on Information Structure in Spoken Language Corpora (ISSLaC), University of Bielefeld, Germany

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.

Jaminjung, Ngaliwurru and Nungali plants and animals: Aboriginal flora and fauna knowledge from the Bradshaw and Judbarra/Gregory National Park area, north Australia (2011)
Book
Marchant Jones, J., Bardbariya, D., Raymond, E., Roberts, D., McDonald, D., McDonald, D., McDonald, M., Simard, C., Moerkerken, C., & Wightman, G. (2011). Jaminjung, Ngaliwurru and Nungali plants and animals: Aboriginal flora and fauna knowledge from the Bradshaw and Judbarra/Gregory National Park area, north Australia. Dept. of Natural Resources, Environment, The Arts and Sport and Diwurruwurru-Jaru Aboriginal Corporation

The results of a study of Jaminjung, Ngaliwurru and Nungali plant and animal knowledge conducted by traditional owners with linguistic and biological support are presented. Jaminjung, Ngaliwurru and Nungali names and uses of plants and animals, scien... Read More about Jaminjung, Ngaliwurru and Nungali plants and animals: Aboriginal flora and fauna knowledge from the Bradshaw and Judbarra/Gregory National Park area, north Australia.