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Joyce McDonough
Associate Professor, Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Arts, Sciences, and Engineering
Department of Linguistics
Areas of expertise: Athabaskan languages, linguistic diversity, endangered languages
Press contact:
Susan Hagen
susan.hagen@rochester.edu
585.276.4061
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Federal Agencies Take Action to Digitally Document Nearly 50 Endangered Languages
August 10, 2011
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Online Atlas Planned for Endangered Native Languages
April 20, 2010
Biography
Joyce McDonough is working on a long-term project documenting and modeling the phonetic and phonological structure of the Athabaskan language, with special attention to the interaction of phonetic and morphological structure. She is also interested in the similarities between rap music and traditional oral history storytelling/chanting.