Dr. Brendon Yoder

Assistant Professor

Education

2014-2020. PhD in Linguistics. University of California Santa Barbara.

2006-2011. MA in Linguistics. University of North Dakota.

2003-2006. BA in Linguistics. Moody Bible Institute.

2001-2003. Certificate in Bible. University of Northwestern.

Research interests

Papuan languages, Tone systems, Linguistic fieldwork, Language documentation, Acoustic phonetics, Bible translation, Participatory Methods for Engaging Communities

Courses taught

LING 4/576 Acoustic Phonetics

LING 680 Advanced Field Methods

LING 688 Tone Analysis

Selected publications

In press. Abawiri grammar cameo. In Nicholas Evans & Sebastian Fedden (eds.), The Oxford guide to Papuan languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

In press. Participatory orthography development in Abawiri. In Timothy M. Stirtz (ed.), Participatory methods for linguistics. Dallas: SIL International.

To appear. Brendon Yoder (ed.). Topic in discourse: Area overviews and case studies. Dallas: SIL International.

2020. A grammar of Abawiri, a Lakes Plain language of Papua, Indonesia. Santa Barbara: University of California Santa Barbara PhD dissertation. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4mj571tr

2018. The Abawiri tone system in typological perspective. Language (Phonological Analysis) 94(4). e266–e292. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2018.0067

2017. Participatory orthography development in Abawiri. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC5). Honolulu, HI. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/42060

2011. Phonological and phonetic aspects of Enggano vowels. Grand Forks, ND: University of North Dakota MA thesis. https://commons.und.edu/theses/4457/

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