Presentations

Handouts/slideshows for many of these presentations can be found at www.mun.ca/cclas/presentations

Academic presentations

  • 2019. Henke, Ryan E. and Brittain, Julie. "Connecting language acquisition to language documentation and beyond The CCLAS project and Northern East Cree." Presentation at the 6th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC), University of Hawai‘i at M?noa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i. March 3.
  • 2017. Brittain, Julie, Shanley Allen and Sara Acton. “Preferred Argument Structure in Cree child and child-directed speech.” Poster presentation at the 14th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Lyon, France. July 19.
  • 2015. Branigan, Phil and Julie Brittain “A labelling theoretic approach to relative root complements in East Cree.” The 47th Algonquian Conference, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. October 24.
  • 2015. Acton, Sara and Julie Brittain “Acquiring the passive in Cree: Evidence from spontaneous child-adult interactions.” The 47th Algonquian Conference, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. October 23.
  • 2014. Brittain, Julie, Shanley Allen & Sara Acton. "Preferred Argument Structure: Evidence from (NE) Cree child and child-directed (adult) speech". Workshop on Structure and Constiuency of Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) 19, Memorial University, April 26.
  • 2013. Branigan, Phil & Julie Brittain. "Polycategorial finals in Cree verb morphosyntax. Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Boston. January 3.
  • 2012. Johansson, Sara & Julie Brittain. "The lexical semantics of (Northern East) Cree verbs of emission: a unified analysis of –piyi." 86th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas), Portland, Oregon, January 7.
  • 2010. Brittain, Julie. "Intransitives Derived by the Verb Final -piyi." Presented at the 42nd Algonquian Conference, Memorial University, October 23.
  • 2010. Rose, Yvan & Julie Brittain. "Grammar matters: Evidence from the metrical and inflectional development in Northern East Cree." Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition in North America (GALANA) 4, University of Toronto, September 3.
  • 2010. Brittain, Julie, Yvan Rose & Kevin Terry. "Grammatical analysis in early morphological development: Evidence from (Northern East) Cree." The Canadian Linguistics Association 2010 meeting (Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities), Concordia University, May 29.
  • 2009. Rose, Yvan, Julie Brittain, Carrie Dyck & Erin Swain. "The acquisition of metrical opacity: A longitudinal case study from Northern East Cree." Poster presentation, Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 34, Boston University, November 6.
  • 2009. Brittain, Julie. "Language under pressure: The Cree Child Language Acquisition Study and its contribution to language maintenance in a bilingual community." (Invited talk), at the Tibetan Education and Language Policy Symposium, University of Virginia Tibet Center, April 28.
  • 2009. Dyck, Carrie (principal author), Julie Brittain, Marguerite MacKenzie & Yvan Rose. "Northern East Cree Metrical Structure." The Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Carleton University, May 23.
  • 2008. Dyck, Carrie (principal author), Julie Brittain, Marguerite MacKenzie & Yvan Rose. "Syncope in Northern East Cree." Poster presentation, The Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, University of British Columbia, May 31 - June 2.
  • 2007. Brittain, Julie, Marguerite MacKenzie, Will Oxford, Carrie Dyck & Yvan Rose. "Preliminary observations on Acquiring (East) Cree as a First Language." The 39th Algonquian Conference, York University, October 18-21.
  • 2006. Dyck, Carrie, Julie Brittain & Marguerite MacKenzie. "Northern East Cree Accent." Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, York University, May 27-30.

Community-oriented presentations

  • 2011. Brittain, Julie, Sara Johansson, & Yvan Rose. "How children learn language and what we know about Cree." Public lecture, Library, James Bay Eeyou School, Chisasibi, May 22.
  • 2010. Brittain, Julie & Marguerite MacKenzie. "The Chisasibi Child Language Acquisition Study: Bridging the gap - how to make our data serve a practical use", presentation to Speech-Language clinicians, Montreal Children's Hospital, May 27.
  • 2010. Brittain, Julie & Marguerite Mackenzie. "The future of Cree." (Invited talk), presented to the Council of Commissioners for the Cree School Board, The Sheraton Hotel, Montreal, February 1.
  • 2007. Brittain, Julie, Yvan Rose, Marguerite MacKenzie & Carrie Dyck. "Early Language Acquisition and Bilingual Development: Current issues & perspectives." The Cree School Board Education Symposium, Sheraton Centre, Montreal, October 18.
  • 2007. Rose, Yvan & Julie Brittain. "The Cree Child Learning a Second language: Some Important facts about Bilingualism." Public lecture, Cree School Board, Chisasibi, May 23.
  • 2006. Brittain, Julie, Marguerite MacKenzie, Carrie Dyck & Yvan Rose. "The Chisasibi Child Language Acquisition Study (CCLAS)." Public lecture, The Inuit Centre, Chisasibi, May 24.
  • 2006. Brittain, Julie, Marguerite MacKenzie, Carrie Dyck & Yvan Rose. "First Language Acquisition and the Chisasibi Child Language Acquisition Study (CCLAS)." Public lecture, The Cree School Board, Chisasibi, May 20.
  • 2005. Brittain, Julie, Marguerite MacKenzie, Carrie Dyck & Yvan Rose. "First language acquisition and the Chisasibi Child Language Acquisition Study (CCLAS)." Presentation to the Board of Directors of Anjabowa Childcare/Headstart Centre, Chisasibi, April 25.

Contact

Julie Brittain

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