Linguistics
Language Documentation and Advanced Phonology
Thesis: De, Der, Die, D’ Definite Articles in Aargau and Thurgau
Thesis Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Douglas Simms
- Worked with a team to bring language documentation and linguistic content to the web in a user friendly manner with current web technologies.
- Acted as a business consultant to organizational units in SIL to bring their services to the web.
- Major areas of participation: Information Architecture, Planing, Business Analysis, User Experience Analysis.
- Established archival quality digitization procedures for language documentation and minority language education materials.
- Collaborated with the Language & Culture Archive to establish metadata schemas for audio and video materials, both for discovery and processing of materials through digitization workflows.
- Managed a team of volunteers digitizing various mediums of language documentation and cultural resources.
- Worked with SIL staff in México doing language documentation
- Established project metadata tracking and file organization procedures for multi-researcher language documentation project
- Made project specific technology recommendations for language documentation and language development use cases
- Developing complete solutions based on customers’ specific needs.
- Provided one-on-one training to customers on Apple products.
- Created brand advocates by providing an amazing, personalized shopping experience to each and every customer.
- Developing complete solutions based on customers’ specific needs.
- Provided one-on-one training to customers on Apple products.
- Created brand advocates by providing an amazing, personalized shopping experience to each and every customer.
- Learner
- Input
- Individualization
- Ideation
- Focus
- Married to the beautiful Becky nee Smith Paterson
- ENTP
Challenges of implementing a tool to extract metadata from linguists: the use case of RAMP. Poster presented at 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, at the University of Hawai’i Mānoa, Honolulu, HI. February 28 – March 3rd.
Keyboard layout as part of language documentation: the case of the Me’phaa and Chinantec keyboards. Paper presented at: Language Endangerment:Methodologies and New Challenges, CRASSH Cambridge, UK. 6 July [Blog post] (no PDF until after publication)
Getting things out of FLEx: Dictionaries in multiple modes. International Workshop on Fieldworks Software. Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 17-21 October 2011.
Lasting Linguistics: Making a Meaningful Mark. with John Clifton & Steve Marlett. University of North Dakota 2009 linguistics colloquium series, 30 July. [PDF and Notes]
An Unlikely Retention. Paper presented at the 11th International Conference of Austronesian Linguistics, 22-26 June, Aussois, France.
Repair strategies used with the interdental approximant in some Philippine languages. Presentation at the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics, Academic Forum, 18 May.
Kenneth S. Olson, Jeff Mielke, Josephine Sanicas-Daguman, Carol Jean Pebley and Hugh J. Paterson (2010). The phonetic status of the (inter)dental approximant. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 40 , pp 199-215 doi:10.1017/S0025100309990296
Kevin L. Cline, Stephen A. Marlett, Hugh Paterson III and Mark L. Weathers. November 2011. Las Conexiones Externas e Internas. En: Stephen A. Marlett (ed.) Los Archivos Lingüísticos Me’phaa. [http://www.sil.org/mexico/workpapers/WP013-PDF/MephaaConexiones.pdf]
- Austronesian historical linguistics
- Language documentation
- Linguistic cartography
- Social-linguistic & non-aural factors influencing sound change
- Phonetic articulations involving tongue protrusion
- Research methodologies granting greater access to usable linguistic and language data
- Web-based linguistic services
- User experience design
- Accessibility & usability of research data
- Workflow design and optimization