PRESENTATIONS
Invited Presentations
2019 “Transparadigmatic uniformity across stress and tone”. Invited talk at Rutgers. 01 Mar.
2019 “Transparadigmatic uniformity across stress and tone”. Invited talk at UCLA. 19 Feb.
2019 “Grammatical tone in Izon at the syntax/phonology interface”. Invited talk at the University of Minnesota. 08 Feb.
2019 “The road or the door to exponence? Examining simultaneity at spell-out”. Invited Colloquium at IGRA Colloquium Series, University of Leipzig. 30 Jan.
2019 “The road or the door to exponence? Examining simultaneity at spell-out”. Morphology and Syntax Workshop, Council on Advanced Studies, University of Chicago. 25 Jan.
2018 “Trigger-target asymmetries in concatenative vs. replacive tone”. University of Buffalo Colloquium Series. Nov 2018.
2018 “Prosodic uniformity across morphological paradigms”. Yale University. February 2018.
2017 “A hybrid OT-DM model: Support from a morphological conspiracy in Degema”. Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory (SPOT) Workshop, UC Santa Cruz. Nov 2017.
2014 “Reconstructing nominal tone in Edoid”. University of Ibadan Colloquium Series. Ibadan: Nigeria. July 2014.
Refereed Talk Presentations
2020 94th LSA Emily Clem, Nicholas Rolle, & Virginia Dawson. “Altruistic inversion and doubling in Tiwa morphology”. 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2020). New Orleans, LA.
2019 NELS 50 Emily Clem, Nicholas Rolle, & Virginia Dawson. “Post-syntactic altruism”. 50th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 50), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Oct 24-27.
2019 27th mfm “The scope of dominant grammatical tone in Izon”. The 27th Manchester Phonology Meeting (mfm). Manchester, UK. May 23-25.
2019 93rd LSA “A cyclic account of a trigger-target asymmetry in concatenative vs. replacive tone”. 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2019). New York City, NY. [Paper acceptance rate 22% - 168/762]
2018 NACAL 46 Nicholas Rolle, Stephanie Shih, & Sharon Inkelas. 2018. “The functional load of tone in Hausa”. North Atlantic Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL 46). California State University, Long Beach. Jun 1-3, 2018.
2018 WSCLA 23 Nicholas Rolle & Zachary O’Hagan. 2018. “Different Kinds of Second- Position Clitics in Caquinte”. 23rd Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 23). University of Ottawa. April 13-15, 2018. [I did not attend]
2018 92nd LSA “A hybrid OT-DM model: Support from a morphological conspiracy in Degema”. 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2018). Salt Lake City, Utah.
2017 NELS 48 “Transparadigmatic Output-Output Correspondence via Agreement-By-Projection”. 2017 North East Meeting of Linguistics (NELS). University of Iceland. [Paper & Poster acceptance rate combined ˜ 20%]
2017 AMP 2017 “Transparadigmatic Output-Output Correspondence”. 2017 Annual Meeting on Phonology. NYU. [Paper acceptance rate ˜ 13.5% - 16/118]
2017 91st LSA “Rhythmic repair of morphological accent assigned outside of a metrical window”. 91st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2017). Austin, Texas.
2017 91st LSA Nicholas Rolle, Matt Faytak, & Florian Lionnet. “The areal distribution of ATR and interior vowels in the Macro-Sudan Belt”. 91st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2017). Austin, Texas.
2016 ACAL 47 Nicholas Rolle, Florian Lionnet & Matt Faytak. “The distribution of ATR and interior vowels in the Macro-Sudan Belt” 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics 2016. UC Berkeley: Berkeley, CA.
2015 WOCAL 8 “An areal typology of nasal vowel systems in West Africa”. 8th World Congress of African Linguistics Kyoto University: Kyoto, Japan.
2015 WOCAL 8 Larry M. Hyman, Peter S. E. Jenks, Geoffrey Bacon, Nicolas Baier, Matthew Faytak, Spencer Lamoureux, Florian Lionnet, John Merrill, Nicholas Rolle, & Hannah Sande. 2015. “Areal features and linguistic reconstruction in Africa”. 8th World Congress of African Linguistics Kyoto University: Kyoto, Japan.
2015 ALT 11 “An areal typology of nasal vowels in West Africa”. 11th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT 2015). UNM: Albuquerque, New Mexico.
2015 ACAL 46 Nicholas Rolle & Ethelbert E. Kari “Degema Serial Verbs at the Syntax/Phonology Interface” Eugene, Oregon. April 2015. 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics 2015. University of Oregon: Eugene, Oregon.
2015 WSCLA 20 Nicholas Rolle & Marine Vuillermet. “Verbal accent in Ese Ejja (Takanan)”. 20th Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 20). University of Arizona: Tucson, Arizona. Jan 2015.
2014 Workshop Nicholas Rolle & Marine Vuillermet. “The distribution of verbal accent in Ese Ejja (Takanan): Assignment, clash, and resolution”. Workshop on Word Stress and Accent, Leiden. University of Leiden 15-17 August, 2014.
2011 ACAL 42 “Serial verb constructions in Esan”. 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics 2011 (ACAL 2011). University of Maryland. 10-12 Jun.
2011 CLA/ACL “Subject markers as resumptive pronouns in Esan”. Canadian Linguistic Association/Association canadienne de linguistique (CLA/ACL 2011). University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. 28-30 May.
2010 41st PLM “Feature specifications of non-voiced sonorants”. 41st Poznan Linguistic Meeting (PLM 2010). Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. 23-26 Sep.
2010 LESCOL 2 “Resumptive pronouns in Esan”. 2nd Leipzig Students' Conference in Linguistics (LESCOL). University of Leipzig, Germany. 01 Sep.
2010 ACAL 41 “Non-participant personal pronouns in Esan: The post-nominal pronoun construction, feature geometry, and reflexes of structure”. 41st Annual Conference on African Linguistics: Languages in Contact (ACAL 2010). University of Toronto. 8 May.
2010 COOL 8 “The phonetic nature of Niuean vowel length”. Conference on Oceanic Linguistics (COOL 8). University of Auckland, New Zealand. 5 Jan.
2009 ACAL 40 “Color Terminology in Esan”. 40th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 2009). University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 9 Apr.
2008 ACAL 39 Nicholas Rolle & Annat Koren. “Documenting the Endangered African Language: Esan” 39th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: Linguistic Research and the Plight of Endangered Languages in Africa (ACAL 2008). University of Georgia. 17-20 Apr.
2004 BWTL 8 Diane Massam, Nicholas Rolle, & Josephine Lee. “Multi-functional ko in Polynesian languages”. The Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics: Approaches to Variation in Language/Perspectives sur la variation langagière (BWTL 8). York University, Canada. Dec.
Refereed Poster Presentations
2019 2019 AMP Nicholas Rolle & Florian Lionnet. “Phantom structure: A representational account of floating tone association”. 2019 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Stony Brook University.
2019 4th AIMM Nicholas Rolle & Lee Bickmore. “Outward-looking phonologically-conditioned allomorphy in Cilungu grammatical tone”. American International Morphology Meeting (AIMM). Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. 3-5 May.
2018 2018 AMP Nicholas Rolle & Larry M. Hyman. “Phrase-level Prosodic Smothering: Evidence from Makonde”. 2018 Annual Meeting on Phonology. UCSD: San Diego, CA. [Poster acceptance rate ˜ 48%]
2016 2016 AMP “Rhythmic repair of morphological accent assigned outside of a metrical window”. 2016 Annual Meeting on Phonology. USC: Los Angeles, CA.
2009 ICLDC 1 Nicholas Rolle, Ireh Iyioha & Annat Koren. “A community grammar of a different sort: The Esan Grammar Project”. 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC). University of Hawai'i at Manoa. 13 Mar 2009.
Other Presentations
2019 “Outward-looking phonologically-conditioned allomorphy in Cilungu grammatical tone?” (In collaboration with Lee Bickmore). Talk at the University of Toronto. 12 Jun.
2019 “Does polysynthesis pose a problem when the triggers of morphological accent and the stress window are at opposite edges?”. Micro-Workshop on Accent. Institut für Linguistik, Universität Leipzig. 29 Jan 2019.
2010 “Resumptive pronouns in Esan”. International Workshop on Personal Pronouns in Niger-Congo Languages. St. Petersburg State University, Russia. 13-16 Sep.
2008 Nicholas Rolle & Annat Koren “The Toronto Esan grammar project”. Poster presentation. Conference on Teaching & Learning Outside the Classroom: Experiential, Community-Based & Co-Curricular Initiatives. University of Toronto. 3 Oct.
2007 Nicholas Rolle, Miles Kenyon & Cathleen Waters “Difficulties & strategies in language documentation: Perspectives from Esan”. Niagara Linguistics Society: Connexions: Exploring Language through Linguistic Interfaces and Cross-Disciplinary Research. University of Toronto. Mar.