Danica Reid
[藞d忙n瑟k蓹 藞晒id]
danica_reid@sfu.ca
911吃瓜 Me
I am a PhD Candidate in the Phonological Processing Lab at 911吃瓜, supervervised by Dr. Ashley Farris-Trimble. I am also an active member of the at the University of British Columbia which is under the direction of my committee member . I have two main areas of research: language processing and language documentation. My work on language processing has spanned over a decade and has use eye-tracking, artificial learning paradigms, and production tasks to investigate speech perception and word recognition by children and adults. My used eye-tracking in the visual world paradigm to identify the segmentation strategies of listeners with Mandarin and French language backgrounds.
In my dissertation work, I have shifted my focus to language documentation. Since 2022, I have worked with three fluent speakers of n涩e蕯kepmxci虂n, a Northern Interior Salish language spoken in South Central British Columbia along Fraser Canyon and the Thompson and Nicola Rivers. With these speakers, I have worked to document the system of aspiration in the language, how ejectives and glottalized resonants differ from their plain counterparts, and how the syllabification of n涩e蕯kepmxci虂n s different from other Salish languages and from proposed lingusitic universals. My dissertation combines these topics and also investigates the vowel system to identify the underlying vowel phonemes and their allophones.
Outside of academia, you can find me at the curling rink or the softball diamond (season dependent), at home with my cats reading, knitting, or watching a movie with my partner (not all at the same time).
Selected Works
Publications
Hall, B., Luntzlara, N., Mellesmoen, G., & Reid, D. 鈥淐trl-Alt-Delete: The Control Directive and Associated /t/ Deletion in n涩e蕯kepmxci虂n.鈥� In Ella Hannon, Laura Griffin, Brent Hall, Bruce Oliver, Danica Reid, Julia Schillo, Lauren Schneider, Reed Steiner, and Bailey Trotter (Eds.), Precedings for the International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages 61, 140-163.
Reid, D. 2025. An investigation of aspiration in n涩e蕯kepmxci虂n. Proceedings of the 2023 and 2024 Annual Meetings on Phonology 1(1).
Reid, D., Dhami, S., Brady, D. & Farris-Trimble, A. 2024. Alienology: Producing opaque phonology. Proceedings of the 48th Boston University Conference on Language Development.
Farris-Trimble, A. & Reid, D. 2019. Little Linguists: A model for engaging university students and elementary schoolers in a day camp setting. Language and Linguistic Compass.
Presentations
Hall, B., Luntzlara, N., Mellesmoen, G., & Reid, D. Ctrl-Alt-Delete: The Control Directive and Associated /t/ Deletion in n涩e蕯kepmxci虂n. Paper presented at the 61st International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, Mount Currie, BC.
Farris-Trimble, A., Tessier, A-M., & Reid, D. June 2026. Does opacity allow recoverability? A processing view of Canadian Raising. Presentation at the 20th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Montreal, QC.
Reid, D., Koch, K., & Farris-Trimble, A. June 2026. Is there experimental evidence for implicational relationships among sC clusters? Presentation at the Canadian Linguistics Association 2026 Annual Meeting, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
Reid, D. June 2025. Documenting aspiration in n涩e蕯kepmxci虂n. Presentation at the Canadian Linguistics Association 2025 Annual Meeting, McGill University, Montreal, QC.
Reid, D. May 2025. Comparing In-person and Remote Recording Methods for Phonetic Field-work. Presentation at UBC Language Sciences Graduate & Postdoctoral Research Day 2025.
Reid, D., Dhami, S., Brady, D. & Farris-Trimble, A. November 2023. Alienology: Producing opaque phonology. Paper presented at the 48th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.