UNC linguists at SSILA 2025
Several UNC linguists and alumni presented last week at the 2025 meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, hosted online. They presented the following works:
- David Mora-Marín: “A historical sociolinguistic study of four linguistic variables in epigraphic Mayan texts”
- Mykel Loren Brinkerhoff (MA 2019; now UC Santa Cruz): “Trees reveal the importance of acoustic measures in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec”
- Hugo Salgado (MA 2014; now Iowa State University): “‘You may not hear It but It Is important’: The acquisition of Nawat utterance-final vowel glottalization by L1 Salvadoran Spanish speakers”