Publications
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2021
Pappas, L., Multifunctionality in Hawu demonstratives. Anthropological Linguistics.
Holton, G. & Pappas, L., Spatial orientation in the Malayo-Polynesian languages outside Oceanic, The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar, ed. by Sander Adelaar and Antoinette Schapper.
Sou J., Pappas, L., Khairunnisa & Holton, G., Training communities in documentation and technology. Language Documentation and Conservation
Pappas, L. & Holton, G, A quantitative approach to sociotopography in Austronesian languages. Linguistics Vanguard, special collection on sociotopography.
Pappas, L. & Mawyer, A., The place of space in Oceanic linguistics, Oceanic Linguistics
Pappas, L., An acoustic study of quasi-phonemic vowels in Ampenan Sasak. Journal of the International Phonetic Association.
Book Reviews
2021
2021
Pappas, L. A review of "A Sketch Grammar of Pondi" by Russell Barlow. Languages & Linguistics in Melanesia, 39.
Pappas, L. A review of "Multi-Verb Constructions in Eastern Indonesia" by Volker Unterladstetter. Oceanic Linguistics.
Invited Presentations
2021
Pappas, L., Holton, G., A quantitative approach to sociotopography in Austronesian languages, 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (15-ICAL). 30 June
Selected Presentations
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2014
2014
Pappas, L., Tan, T., The development of voice and verb alternations in Hawu, International Conference of Historical Linguistics (ICHL27), Santiago de Chile, Aug 21
Tan, T., Pappas, L. The development of voice and verb alternations in Hawu, Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS), Oxford, Jun 22
Pappas, L. Sea, land, and sky: culture and place in Eastern Indonesian narratives, International Conference in Language Documentation and Conservation (ICDLC), Honolulu, Mar 6-9
Pappas, L., Khairunnisa, Engaging communities through language documentation training Language Documentation and Archiving, Berlin, Germany, 4 Sept
Pappas, L., Hawu voice: A discourse perspective, Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS33). Taipei, Taiwan, 15 June
Pappas, L., Khairunnisa The endangered Saparua: Speaker attitudes towards the last two remaining varieties on a post-conflict island, Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS33). Taipei, Taiwan, 17 June.
Pappas, L., The complementary expression of space in speech and gesture, LSA 2022 Annual Meeting. Washington D.C., 8 January
Pappas, L., A Typology of Spatial Deixis in Island Southeast Asia, Southeast Asian Linguistic Society (SEALS). Online
Pappas, L., Thomas Mare, N., Lede Lay, L., Gesture in Video Language Documentation, ICLDC 7. Online, 4--7 March
Pappas, L., The Elevation Systems of Sulawesi, Workshop on Typology and diachrony of Elevational spatial deixis. Online, 23 & 24 November
Pappas, L., The discourse use of a complex demonstrative system in Hawu, SEALS 2020, accepted
McDonnell, B., Pappas, L., Barwick, L., Berez-Kroeker, A., Holton, G., Thieberger, N., Assessing Video Standards for Endangered Languages Archives, IASA 2019 - 50th Annual Conference, Hilversum, Netherlands, 30, September
Pappas, L., “Just barely contrastive”: Mid-vowel contrasts in Ampenan Sasak, 11th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (APLL11), Leiden, Netherlands, 14, June
Holton, G., Pappas, L., A typology of spatial orientation systems in the Malayo-Polynesian languages outside Oceanic, 11th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (APLL11), Leiden, Netherlands, 15, June
Pappas, L., Bianchini, O., and Belew, A. Facebook Live: A New Platform for Language Documentation Training, The Hawai‘i Association of Language Teachers (HALT), Honolulu, HI, 13, April
Pappas, L., Hakim, J., Sou, J., Holton G., Training communities in documentation and technology: A model for the future? ICLDC 6, Honolulu, HI, 28 February – 3 March 2019
Pappas, L., Quasi-Phonemic Vowels in Ampenan Sasak: An Acoustic Analysis. 76th meeting Acoustical Society of America, Victoria, Canada, 4-8 November 2018
Pappas, L., Jackson, C. N., van Hell, J. G., Spalek, K. The acquisition of L1-L2 grammatical gender in German-French and English-French bilinguals. Poster presentation at Architectures and Mechanisms in Language Processing (AMLaP)}, Edinburgh, UK, 4-6 September.
Pappas, L., Jackson, C.N., van Hell, J.G., Spalek, K. The acquisition of L1-L2 grammatical gender in German-French bilinguals. Poster presentation at American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Portland OR, 22-25 March.
Translations
2018
"Destin commun ou destin rare : une table ronde sur la Nouvelle-Calédonie (Un)Common destinies: a New Caledonia roundtable” (with David Chappell, Isabel Leblic, Pierre-Yves Le Meur, and Tate LeFevre), Journal de la Société des Océanistes 147:565-576. Trans. by Leah Pappas.
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