Phonetics

• Saami Phonetics: Acoustic Analysis of Contrastive Quantity
• Analysis of Temporal Patterns in Speech Production

Sociolinguistics

• Endangered Languages (Skolt Saami, Oroqen): Language Planning, Literacy
• Sociophonetics (Hungarian, NZ English)

• Quantity in the Skolt Lappish  (Saami) language: An acoustic analysis. Uralic and Altaic Series 165. Bloomington: Indiana University Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies. 255+ xvi pp. ISBN 0-933070-45-4. 1999.

Reviewed by Ilse Lehiste, Journal of Finnish Studies 4, 65-70. 2000.

 

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• "The instability of systems with ternary length distinction: The Skolt Saami evidence. Saami linguistics. ed. by Ida Toivoinen &  Diane Nelson.  Current issues in linguistic theory 288.  John Benjamins Publishers, Co.  165-205.

• "The production and perception of Skolt Saami vowel contrast". at the  Budapest Uralic Workshop 6.: Sounds of Uralic Languages. Budapest, Hungary.  January 11-12, 2008.

• "The acoustic correlates of Skolt Saami vowel contrasts", at the 15th Conference of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada. York University.  May 29-30, 2006.

• "The language of the children of 1956: A study of pronunciation characteristics", at the 22nd Conference of the Hungarian Studies Association of Canada. York University. May 27-30, 2006
  

• "Normative preaspiration in Skolt Sami in relation to the distribution of duration in the disyllabic stress-group,"  in Honti-Festschrift. Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Linguistics. Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Sciences.  2003. 291-300.
  

• "Sound change in progress: An acoustic study of vowel variation in the speech of Hungarians in Vancouver, British Columbia".   Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada, Burnaby, British Columbia.   ed by Zita.McRobbie-Utasi & Connie So. 2003.  FUSAC Publications. ISBN 086491-237-4.   247 pp.

• "Boundary signaling in relation to temporal pattern differences: The relevance of the role of duration".  Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, 3-9 August, 2003.  2019-2023.

• "Phonetic realizations of the New Zealand KIT vowel in relation to two social variables". Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, 3-9 August, 2003. 1201-1205.

• "An acoustic study of an uncommon vowel produced by Hungarian English bilinguals". Canadian Acoustics 31, 34-35. 2003.
  

• "Vowel reduction in connected speech". Folia Uralica Debreceniensia 8, 397-403. 2001.  

• "Collecting sociolinguistic data: some typical and some not so typical approaches". New Zealand Journal of Sociology 16, 79-92. Co-authored with D. Starks (first author: D.S.) 2001.

• "The KIT vowel in New Zealand English: Implications of variation in the speech of an interviewer in rapid surveys".  Proceedings of the 2001 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. 145-157. Co-authored with D. Starks (First author:Z.McRobbie-Utasi). 2001.

• "Pronunciation changes in the speech of Hungarian-English bilinguals".  Conference of the Canadian Association of Hungarian Studies. Québec City, 2001.

• "Acoustic characteristics of word-final vowel reduction in Skolt Saami".  Proceedings of the Ninth International Finno-Ugric Congress, Tartu (Estonia), August 7-13, 2000.  366-371. 2000.

• "Variation and accommodation in the speech of the individual".   NWAV Conference, Toronto. Co-authored with D. Starks. (First author: Z.McRobbie-Utasi) 1999.

• "Contrastive vs. non-contrastive duration in relation to temporal patterns within the paragraph".  Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, Aug. 1-7. 1999. Vol.1, 249-252. 1999.

• "An acoustical analysis of durational interdependencies in Skolt Saami". Nyelvtudományi Közlemények 94: 137-146. 1996.
  

• "The duration of long obstruents in Skolt Sámi: a prosodic change in progress?"  Conference of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada.  St.Catharines. 1996.

• "The configuration of the prosodic components in the three-way quantity distinction in Skolt Sámi".  Proceedings of the 1996 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics. 269-280. 1996.

• "The implications of temporal patterns for the prosody of boundary signaling in connected speech," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Philadelphia, USA, 1996, 1189-1192. 1996.

• "Language planning, literacy and cultural identity: The Skolt Saami case". Linguistics. Series A, Studia et Dissertationes 17. Zur Frage der uralischen Schriftsprachen. 31-39. 1995.

• "The maintaining of durational distinctions: patterns and consequences".   Proceedings of the 1995 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics. 349-360. 1995.

• "The maintaining of durational ratios in quantity distinctions in conversational speech,"  Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, Aug. 14-20. Vol. I. 166-69. 1995.

• "Timing strategies within the paragraph".  Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Yokohama, Japan. 383-386. 1994.
  

• "Observing the Process of Language Attrition: Prefix Misplacement and Word Order Change in Hungarian". Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada.  Transitions, Maintenance and Adaptations of Cultural Values of the Finno-Ugric Immigrant Descendants in North America. ed. by  Joel Nevis and Juta. Kitching151-63. 1992.

• "The role of preaspiration duration in the voicing contrast in Skolt Sámi".  Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Banff. 1263-1265. 1992.
  

• "Preaspiration in Skolt Sámi". SFU Working Papers in Linguistics. Vol.1. ed. by P. McFetridge  77-87. 1991.

• "Durational ratios of disyllabics in relation to the syllable boundary in Skolt Sámi". Proceedings of the XIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Aix-en-Provence, France. 306-309. 1991.