Refereed
Easterday, Shelece, Blaine Billings, & Clemens Mayer. 2024. Emergence of divergent phonotactics in Austronesian: A distributional typological approach. Panel presentation at the 16ᵗʰ International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (ICAL16), Manila, Philippines, 20–24 June 2024.
Phonological Typology
Austronesian
McDonnel, Bradley, Blaine Billings, Jacob Hakim, Dendi Wijaya, & Yanti. 2024. A window into the early history of langauge contact in Sumatra. Paper presented at the 16ᵗʰ International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (ICAL16), Manila, Philippines, 20–24 June 2024.
Language Contact
Austronesian (Sumatra)
Billings, Blaine. 2024. Do you *c what I *c? Proto-Batak palatals and what they (don't) say about PMP. Paper presented at the 33ʳᵈ Conference of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS33), Taipei, Taiwan, 15–17 June 2024.
Historical Linguistics
Austronesian (Sumatra)
Billings, Blaine. 2024. Building a comparative lexical database for the Sumatran languages. Paper presented at the 31ˢᵗ Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA31), Amherst, MA, USA, 12–14 June 2024.
Historical Linguistics
Austronesian (Sumatra)
Billings, Blaine. 2023. Contact-induced phonological change in the Sumatran languages. Poster presented at the Sixth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology (ESHP6), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 4–5 December 2023.
Language Contact
Austronesian (Sumatra)
McDonnell, Bradley & Blaine Billings. 2023. On the use of Malay function words in Nasal. Paper presented at the 26ᵗʰ International Symposium on Malay and Indonesian Linguistics (ISMIL26), Honolulu, HI, USA, 18–20 May 2023.
Language Contact
Austronesian (Sumatra)
San, Nay, Martijn Bartelds, Blaine Billings, Ella del Falco, Johan Safri, Wawan Sahrozi, Ben Foley, Bradley McDonnell, & Dan Jurafsky. 2023. Leveraging supplementary text data to kick-start automatic speech recognition system development with limited transcriptions. Paper presented at the 6ᵗʰ Worksohp on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages (ComputEL-6), Honolulu, HI, USA, 5–6 March 2023.
Computational Linguistics
Automated Speech Transcription
Griffin, Laura & Blaine Billings. 2023. A sketch of modality in Chuukic languages. Paper presented at the 22ⁿᵈ East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference, Honolulu, HI, USA, 16–18 February 2023.
Modality
Austronesian (Micronesia)
McDonnell, Bradley, Yanti, Blaine Billings, & Jacob Hakim. 2022. Constructing a multilingual corpus of everyday conversations. Paper presented at the 14ᵗʰ Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT14), Austin, TX, USA, 15–17 December 2022.
Corpus Development
Multilingualism
Billings, Blaine & Bradley McDonnell. 2022. Subgrouping Malayo-Polynesian languages of Sumatra and the Barrier Islands. Paper presented at the 31ˢᵗ Conference of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS33), Honolulu, HI, USA, 18–20 May 2022.
Historical Linguistics
Austronesian (Sumatra)
Other
McDonnell, Bradley, Yanti, Dendi Wijaya, Jacob Hakim, & Blaine Billings. 2023. The changing face of language documentation: An example from Indonesia. Presented at the UHM Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Honolulu, HI, USA, 8 November 2023.
Language Contact
Austronesian (Sumatra)
Billings, Blaine. 2021. Historical Phonology of the Languages of Northwest Sumatra and the Barrier Islands. Presented at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Austronesian Circle , Honolulu, HI, USA, 26 October 2021.
Historical Linguistics
Austronesian (Sumatra)
Billings, Blaine. 2021. The languages of Alor regency: Assessing language endangerment. Presentation at the Webinar Bahasa-Bahasa yang Hampir Punah 3 [3ʳᵈ Webinar on Endangered Languages], Kupang, Nusa Tenggara Timor, Indonesia, 30 March 2021.
Language Endangerment
Austronesian (Alor)