Handouts – Sylvia L.R. Schreiner

Handouts, posters, and slides from recent presentations:

2025

Soldati, Giulia M., Sylvia L.R. Schreiner, Petuwaq Christopher Koonooka, and Crystal Ukall Apangalook. Phonetic documentation with speakers of an Alaska Native language for multiple purposes. Symposium on American Indian Languages, University of Arizona. April 2025.

Mow, Nilima, Sylvia L.R. Schreiner, Amaghalek Beulah Nowpakahok, Pakfisagik Tamara Avalnun, Tevghilnguq Yuka Ungwiluk. Community voices: Best practices for language revitalization and reclamation. Symposium on American Indian Languages, University of Arizona. April 2025.

Mow, Nilima and Sylvia L.R. Schreiner. Challenges and insights: Surveying language attitudes in an endangered Indigenous language community. Talk, 9th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, Honolulu, Hawai‘i. March 2025.

2024

Annogiyuk, Nanik Joelaine, Sylvia L.R. Schreiner, and Avruuy Miriam Toolie. Language and culture instruction in a language endangerment context. Talk, Language ideologies and inequality with a perspective on the Arctic, Nuuk, Greenland. May 2024.

Schreiner, Sylvia L.R. Capacity-building through strengthening awareness: Community linguistics in a language revitalization context. Symposium on American Indian Languages, University of Arizona. April 2024.

Schreiner, Sylvia L.R. Community engagement over time. Navigating the New Arctic Annual Community Meeting, George Washington University. March 2024.

Schreiner, Sylvia L.R. Agility for language documentation and revitalization: A case study. Invited talk, Washington University in St. Louis. March 2024.

2023

Schreiner, Sylvia L.R. Community linguistics for documenting variation and community language practice. Documenting languages, documenting cultures. Accademia Pontaniana, Naples. October 2023.

Hunt, Benjamin, Lane Schwartz, Sylvia L.R. Schreiner, and Emily Chen. Community consultation and the development of an online Akuzipik-English dictionary. Talk, Third Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Toronto. July 2023.

2022

Hunt, Benjamin, and Sylvia L.R. Schreiner. Documenting quantifiers in Akuzipik: Images for eliciting nominal quantification. Paper, Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas 2022. Virtual, January 2022.

Masella Soldati, Giulia, Harim Kwon, and Sylvia L.R. Schreiner. Ultrasound study of coronal continuants in Akuzipik/St. Lawrence Island Yupik. Paper, Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas 2022. Virtual, January 2022.

2021

Hunt, Benjamin, and Sylvia L.R. Schreiner. The distribution of nominal quantifiers in a digitized corpus of St. Lawrence Island Yupik. Poster. WCCFL 39, Virtual, March 2021. (one-page version here)

Hunt, Benjamin, Emily Chen, Lane Schwartz, Wills Davis, Sylvia L.R. Schreiner, and Scott Schreiner. A morphologically aware offline mobile electronic dictionary for St. Lawrence Island Yupik Poster, Symposium on American Indian Languages 2021. Virtual, March 2021.

Schwartz, Lane, Sylvia L.R. Schreiner, Emily Chen, Hyunji Hayley Park, Peter Zuckerman, Benjamin Hunt, and Giulia Masella Soldati. Tools for the maintenance and revitalization of St. Lawrence Island Yupik. Paper, Symposium on American Indian Languages 2021. Virtual, March 2021.

Schwartz, Lane, Emily Chen, Hyunji Hayley Park, Edward Jahn, and Sylvia L.R. Schreiner. A Digital Corpus of St. Lawrence Island Yupik. Paper, Comput-EL4 Workshop, Virtual, March 2021.

Schwartz, Lane, Emily Chen, Hyunji Hayley Park, Edward Jahn, and Sylvia L.R. Schreiner. A Digital Corpus of St. Lawrence Island Yupik for the Yupik Community. Poster, 7th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation, Virtual, March 2021.

Schreiner, Sylvia L.R. Types of proximity in St. Lawrence Island Yupik past markers. Poster, 2021 Annual Meeting of The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Virtual, January 2021.

Hunt, Benjamin, Harim Kwon, and Sylvia L.R. Schreiner. An acoustic analysis of vowels and vocalic allophony in St. Lawrence Island Yupik. Poster, LSA 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting, Virtual, January 2021.

2020

Hunt, Benjamin, Harim Kwon, and Sylvia L.R. Schreiner. An acoustic analysis of St. Lawrence Island Yupik vowels. Poster, Acoustics Virtually Everywhere, The 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Virtual, December 2020.

Hunt, Benjamin, and Sylvia L.R. Schreiner. On the Status of the Determiner Phrase in St. Lawrence Island Yupik. Paper, 2020 Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, New Orleans, January 2020.

2019

Schwartz, Lane, Emily Chen, Hayley Park, Sylvia L.R. Schreiner, and Benjamin Hunt. St. Lawrence Island Yupik Technology for Language Documentation and Revitalization. Poster, International Conference Language Technologies for All (LT4All): Enabling Linguistic Diversity and Multilingualism Worldwide, December 2019.

Schwartz, Lane, Sylvia L.R. Schreiner, Peter Zukerman, Giulia Masella Soldati, Emily Chen, and Benjamin Hunt. Initiating a tool-building infrastructure for the use of the St. Lawrence Island Yupik language community. Paper, International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019: Perspectives Conference, October 2019.

Schreiner, Sylvia L.R. When translation fails: Pinpointing “past tense” meanings with speakers of St. Lawrence Island Yupik.Paper, 21^st Inuit Studies Conference, Montreal, October 2019.

Hunt, Benjamin, Emily Chen, Sylvia L.R. Schreiner, and Lane Schwartz. Community lexical access for an endangered polysynthetic language: An electronic dictionary for St. Lawrence Island Yupik. System demonstration, 2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), June 2019.

Hunt, Benjamin, and Sylvia L.R. Schreiner. Patterns in Heteromorphemic Consonant Behavior in St. Lawrence Island Yupik. Poster, Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of Americas (WSCLA) 24, UMD, May 2019.

Schwartz, Lane, Emily Chen, Benjamin Hunt, and Sylvia L.R. Schreiner. Bootstrapping a Neural Morphological Analyzer for St. Lawrence Island Yupik from a Finite-State Transducer. Paper, Comput-EL3 Workshop, Hawaii, February 2019.

Schwartz, Lane, Sylvia Schreiner, Emily Chen, and Benjamin Hunt. Bidirectional Leveraging of Computational Morphology and Linguistic Fieldwork. Poster, 6th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC), Hawaii, February 2019.

Hunt, Benjamin, Emily Chen, Sylvia Schreiner, and Lane Schwartz. Introducing An Electronic Dictionary for Central Siberian / St. Lawrence Island Yupik. Technology showcase, 6th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC), Hawaii, February 2019.