Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

    Geary, J. A. (2022). Identifying bird species in River Yuman oral traditions. Journal of the Southwest 64: 538-571.
    Kalt, S. E., and Geary, J. A. (2021). Typological shift in bilinguals' L1: word order and case marking in two varieties of child Quechua. Languages 6(1): 42. [https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6010042]

Conference Proceedings

    Geary, J. A. (2022). Stress-based truncation of loanwords in the Yuman languages. Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages. [Manuscript]
    Geary, J. A., and Kern, G. (2022). Word order variation in interrogative sentences in Northwest Sahaptin texts. Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages. [Manuscript]
    Geary, J., and Ussishkin, A. (2019). Morphological priming without semantic relationship in Hebrew spoken word recognition. Proceedings of the Linguistics Society of America 4. [https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v4i1.4509]
    Anderson, S. A., and Geary, J. A. (2019). Form priming by discontinuous consonant letter strings in visual masked priming. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon 1: e060. [https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-pvan-0083]

Conference Presentations

    Anderson, S., and Geary, J. A. (2023). Morphology-sensitive stress in Southern Hill Nisenan. The 25th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL 25), Santa Barbara, CA, April 15, 2023. [Abstract] [Handout]
    Geary, J. A. (2023). Nisenan Coyote speech: Implications for document-based language revitalization. The 25th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL 25), Santa Barbara, CA, April 14, 2023. [Abstract] [Slides]
    Anderson, S., and Geary, J. A. (2023). Pluractional reduplication in Southern Hill Nisenan. SSILA Winter Meeting 2023 (SSILA 2023), January 21, 2023. [Abstract] [Slides]
    Geary, J. A. (2023). Switch-reference in the Southern Hill Nisenan of Bill Joe. SSILA Winter Meeting 2023 (SSILA 2023), January 21, 2023. [Abstract] [Slides]
    Geary, J. A. (2022). Re-assessing the source language of a purported Kaxwaan (Yuman) word list. The Symposium on American Indian Languages (SAIL 2022), Tucson, AZ, April 15, 2022. [Abstract] [Slides]
    Geary, J. A. (2022). Stress-based truncation of loanwords in the Yuman languages. The 24th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL 24), Santa Barbara, CA, April 8, 2022. [Abstract] [Slides]
    Geary, J. A., and Kern, G. (2022). Word order variation in interrogative sentences in Northwest Sahaptin texts. The 24th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL 24), Santa Barbara, CA, April 8, 2022. [Abstract] [Slides]
    Geary, J. (2022). Lexical borrowing of bird names among Yuman languages of the lower Colorado River. SSILA Winter Meeting 2022 (SSILA 2022), January 23, 2022. [Abstract] [Slides] [Video]
    Geary, J. (2021). Orthographic neighborhood density effects in a Maltese visual lexical decision megastudy. The Second Words in the World International Conference (WOW2021), November 26, 2021. [Abstract] [Slides] [Video]
    Geary, J. (2021). Analysis of two Kaxwaan (Yuman) word lists from the early twentieth century. SSILA Winter Meeting 2021 (SSILA 2021), January 9, 2021. [Abstract] [Poster]
    Geary, J. A. (2021). Assessing the evidence for lateral phonemes in River Yuman: Implications for Piipaash orthography. The 39th Meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 39), April 11, 2021. [Abstract] [Poster]
    Kern, G., and Geary, J. (2021). Developing teaching materials for the Umatilla Sahaptin language: Balancing insights from linguistic theory with learners' communicative needs. The 39th Meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 39), April 10, 2021. [Abstract] [Poster]
    Powell, J., and Geary, J. (2021). Passive -č innovations and borrowings in Yuman languages. SSILA Winter Meeting 2021 (SSILA 2021), January 9, 2021. [Abstract] [Handout]
    Geary, J. (2020). MaltLex: A database of visual lexical decision responses to 11,000 Maltese words. The 33rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY 2020), Amherst, MA, March 20, 2020. [Abstract] [Poster]
    Kalt, S. E., and Geary, J. A. (2020). Typological shift in bilinguals' L1: word order and case marking in two varieties of child Quechua. The 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2020), New Orleans, LA, January 4, 2020. [Abstract]
    Geary, J. (2019). The Piipaash word for 'coyote' as a window into Yuman historical development. SSILA Summer Meeting 2019 (SSILA 2019), Davis, CA, July 13, 2019. [Abstract] [Slides]
    Geary, J. (2019). Testing the role of phoneme order in lexical access using transposed-phoneme priming. The 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY 2019), Boulder, CO, March 31, 2019. [Abstract] [Poster]
    Geary, J., and Ussishkin, A. (2019). Morphological priming without semantic relationship in Hebrew spoken word recognition. The 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2019), New York City, NY, January 5, 2019. [Abstract] [Poster]
    Anderson, S., and Geary, J. (2018). Form priming by discontinuous consonant letter strings in visual masked priming. The 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon (MenLex2018), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, September 28, 2018. [Abstract] [Slides]
    Geary, J., and Ussishkin, A. (2018). Root-letter priming in Maltese visual word recognition. The 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2018), Salt Lake City, UT, January 7, 2018. [Abstract] [Slides]
    Geary, J. (2017). The historical development of the Maltese plural suffixes -iet and -(i)jiet. The 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 23), San Antonio, TX, August 4, 2017. [Abstract] [Slides]

Peer-Reviewed Articles

    Geary, J. A. (2022). Explorations in Yuman ethnobiology: (River) Yuman bird and coyote names. OPLP Mini-Piipaash Conference, Phoenix, AZ, December 2, 2022.

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