This volume contains a selection of papers that were presented at the 53rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, which was held virtually at the University of California San Diego. There are 21 papers covering phonology, morphology, syntax, lexical semantics, sociolinguistics, typology and historical linguistics. The volume features a keynote paper that proposes a novel community-based approach to language documentation. African languages investigated in detail include Wolof, Mende, Dangme, Kusaal, Nzema, Anii, Nigerian Pidgin, Tunen, Nyokon, Vale, Lokoya, Lopit, Otuho, Kalenjin, Tiriki, Oromo, Tigrinya, Asá, Qwadza, and Ikalanga.
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Yaqian Huang
Yaqian Huang received her PhD in Linguistics and Cognitive Science from the University of California San Diego, and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Acoustics Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She previously taught at the University of California, Los Angeles. She works on phonetics, laboratory phonology, and the cognitive processes underlying speech perception and production, with a focus on voice quality, tone, and vowel quality.
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