People: Faculty

Dr. Kimary Shahin

kns3@sfu.ca
Office: RCB 9218

Research Areas

  Phonetics and Phonology
  Phonological Acquisition
  First Nations Languages
  Arabic

Adjunct Professor, received her Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia with a dissertation on postvelar phonology in Arabic and Salish. Her research and teaching interests are in phonology, phonetics, and phonological acquisition. She works on Salish and Arabic. Kimary is First Nations liaison for the LINGUIST LIST Wikipedia Linguistic Update Project and investigator on the ELDP project ‘Lower St’át’imcets Documentation’ . She is also a member of the editorial review board for the interdisciplinary journal Glossa.

Recent publications include:

• in prep. Fostering Language Development in Arabic, Encyclopedia of Language and Literacy Development, Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network (http://literacy encyclopedia.ca/)
• to appear. Promotion of secondary place in St’át’imcets. In D. Beck & G. J. Rowicka (eds.), A Festschrift for Thomas M. Hess.
• 2008. On the phonetics of schwa in Sliammon (M. Comox) Salish: implications for the representations of Salish vowels. Canadian Acoustics 36:42-43. (with S. J. Blake)
• 2007. Palestinian Arabic. In M. Eid, A. Elgibali, K. Versteegh, M. Woldich and A. Zaborski (eds.), Encylopedia of Arabic Languages and Linguistics, Leiden: E. J. Brill, p.526-538.
• 2007. Pragmatics of conversation and communication in noisy settings. Journal of Pragmatics 39:2159-2184. (with William H. McKellin, Murray Hodgson, Janet Jamieson and M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller)
• 2007. An acoustic study of schwa production in two St'át'imcets varieties. In K. Jóhannsdóttir & M. Oberg (eds.), UBC WPL 20: 383-390.