Kenneth S. Olson

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Linguistics Publications

Peer-reviewed Publications

• Mielke, Jeff, Kenneth S. Olson, Adam Baker & Diana Archangeli. 2011. Articulation of the Kagayanen interdental approximant: An ultrasound study. Journal of Phonetics 39(3). 403–412. DOI.
• Olson, Kenneth S. 2004. Illustrations of the IPA: Mono. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 34(2). 233–238. DOI. PDF. © International Phonetic Association.
• Olson, Kenneth S. 2005. The phonology of Mono (SIL International and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics 140). Dallas: SIL International and the University of Texas at Arlington. purchase.
  • This is the published version of Olson’s 2001 dissertation from the University of Chicago: The phonology and morphology of Mono. PDF.
  • Review: Paster, Mary. 2006. Review of The Phonology of Mono. Linguist List 17.1958. URL.
• Olson, Kenneth S. 2006. On Niger-Congo classification. In Howard I. Aronson, Donald L. Dyer, Victor A. Friedman, Daniela S. Hristova & Jerrold M. Sadock (eds.), The Bill question, 153–190. Bloomington, IN: Slavica. Workpaper version: URL.
• Olson, Kenneth S. 2009. SIL International: An emic view. Language 85(3). 646–652. DOI.
• Olson, Kenneth S., Emy T. Ballenas & Nilo M. Borromeo. 2009. Buhi’non (Bikol) digital wordlist: Presentation form. Language Documentation & Conservation 3(2). 213–225. URI.
• Olson, Kenneth S. & John Hajek. 1999. The phonetic status of the labial flap. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 29(2). 101–114. DOI.
• Olson, Kenneth S. & John Hajek. 2003. Crosslinguistic insights on the labial flap. Linguistic Typology 7(2). 157–186. DOI. PDF. © Walter de Gruyter. The final publication is available at www.degruyter.com.
• Olson, Kenneth S. & John Hajek. 2004. A crosslinguistic lexicon of the labial flap. Linguistic Discovery 2(2). 21–57. URL.
• Olson, Kenneth S., Glenn Machlan & Nelson Amangao. 2008. Minangali (Kalinga) digital wordlist: Presentation form. Language Documentation & Conservation 2(1). 141–156. URI.
• Olson, Kenneth S. & Mbakuwuse Tshangbaita. 2009. Mono digital wordlist: Presentation form. Linguistic Discovery 7(1). 131–141. URL.
• Olson, Kenneth S. & Jacques Vermond Mbomate. 2007. Ngbugu digital wordlist: Presentation form. Linguistic Discovery 5(1). 40–47. URL.
• Olson, Kenneth S. & Jeff Mielke. 2007. Acoustic properties of the Kagayanen vowel space. In Jürgen Trouvain & William J. Barry (eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrücken, Germany, August 6–10, 2007, 845–848. Saarbrücken: University of Saarland. URL.
• Olson, Kenneth S., Jeff Mielke, Josephine Sanicas-Daguman, Carol Jean Pebley & Hugh J. Paterson III. 2010. The phonetic status of the (inter)dental approximant. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 40(2). 199–215. DOI. PDF. © International Phonetic Association.
• Olson, Kenneth S., Brian E. Schrag, Barbara Schrag, Ama Geangozo Mbanza, Kilio Tembenekuzu, Roger E. Olson, Marjorie Liedtke, Judy Kuntz & Lars Huttar. 2010. Mono 2000-item digital wordlist: Presentation form. SIL Language and Culture Documentation and Description 6. URL.
• Simons, Gary F., Kenneth S. Olson & Paul Frank. 2007. Ngbugu digital wordlist: A test case for best practices in archiving and presenting language documentation. Linguistic Discovery 5(1). 28–39. URL.
• Soderberg, Craig, Seymour A. Ashley & Kenneth S. Olson. 2012. Illustrations of the IPA: Tausug (Suluk). Journal of the International Phonetic Association 42(3). 361–364. DOI. PDF. © International Phonetic Association.
• Soderberg, Craig D. & Kenneth S. Olson. 2008. Illustrations of the IPA: Indonesian. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 38(2). 209–213. DOI. PDF. © International Phonetic Association.
• Williamson, Kay & Kenneth S. Olson. 2007. Languages: Niger-Congo. In John Middleton & Joseph C. Miller (eds.), New Encyclopedia of Africa, Volume 3, 231–233. Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons.

Other Publications

• Ballenas, Emy T., Nilo M. Borromeo, Kenneth S. Olson, Judy Kuntz, Roger E. Olson & Gary F. Simons. 2009. Buhi’non (Bikol) digital wordlist: Archival form. Kaipuleohone, the University of Hawai‘i Digital Ethnographic Archive, Honolulu, HI. URI.
• Boone, Douglas W. & Kenneth S. Olson. 2004. Bwa bloc survey report. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2004–013. Dallas: SIL. URL.
• Dainora, Audra, Rachel Hemphill, Yukari Hirata & Kenneth Olson. 1996. Effects of context and speaking rate on liquid-stop sequences: A reassessment of traditional acoustic cues. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 100(4). 2601. DOI.
• Darden, Bill & Kenneth S. Olson. 1999. On the question of the relevance of family trees in comparative reconstruction. Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 35(2). 311–321.
• Gruber, M. Catherine, Derrick Higgins, Kenneth S. Olson & Tamra Wysocki (eds.). 1998. CLS 34: The Main Session. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
• Gruber, M. Catherine, Derrick Higgins, Kenneth S. Olson & Tamra Wysocki (eds.). 1998. CLS 34: The Panels. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
• Machlan, Glenn & Kenneth S. Olson. 2008. Minangali (Kalinga) digital wordlist: Archival form. SIL-LCA-50319. SIL Language and Culture Archives, Dallas, Texas.
• Olson, Kenneth S. 1996. On the comparison and classification of Banda dialects. Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 32(1). 267–283.
• Olson, Kenneth S. 2000. The phonetic status of the labial flap. The Native Speaker 4(1). 5–6.
• Olson, Kenneth S. 2001. The phonology and morphology of Mono. Chicago: University of Chicago dissertation. PDF.
• Olson, Kenneth S. 2004. An evaluation of Niger-Congo classification. SIL Electronic Working Papers 2004–005. Dallas: SIL. URL. [Workpaper version of Olson (2006).]
• Olson, Kenneth S. 2006. Ngbugu digital wordlist: Archival form. SIL-LCA-47050. SIL Language and Culture Archives, Dallas, Texas.
• Olson, Kenneth S. 2008. Mono digital wordlist: Archival form. SIL-LCA-50695. SIL Language and Culture Archives, Dallas, Texas.
• Olson, Kenneth S. & John Hajek. 2001. The geographic and genetic distribution of the labial flap. SIL Electronic Working Papers 2001–002. Dallas: SIL. URL.
• Olson, Kenneth S. & Jeff Mielke. 2008. Acoustic properties of the interdental approximant in Kagayanen. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 123(5). 3460. DOI.
• Olson, Kenneth S., D. William Reiman, Fernando Sabio & Filipe Alberto da Silva. 2009. The voiced linguolabial plosive in Kajoko. Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 45(1). 519–530. purchase.
• Olson, Kenneth S. & Brian E. Schrag. 2000. An overview of Mono phonology. In H. Ekkehard Wolff & Orin Gensler (eds.), Proceedings from the 2nd World Congress of African Linguistics, Leipzig 1997, 393–409. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.
• Olson, Kenneth S. & Paul H. Schultz. 2002. Can [sonorant] spread? Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session 46. URL.

Errata and Addenda

Olson (2005)

• Page 76, paragraph 2: for ‘…the restriction that if (55) or (56) apply, then (55) must also apply…’ read ‘…the restriction that if (55b) or (55c) apply, then (55a) must also apply…’.
• Page 185, column 2: for ‘àpùtù’ read ‘àkpùtù’.
• Page 208, column 1: for ‘òʔò àkwà ōɡō, n. command. 1297.’ read ‘òʔò àkwà, Variant: òʔò ōɡō, n. command. 1297.’
• Page 210, column 2: for ‘sə tə̀ ɡbɔ̀kwákwá’ read ‘sə tə̀ ɡbɔ́kwákwá’.

Olson (2006)

• Page 188, paragraph 10: for ‘Olivier’ read ‘Oliver’.

Olson, Ballenas & Borromeo (2009)

• Per ISO 639–3 change request 2009-078, Buhi’non Bikol is now considered a distinct language and has been assigned the code [ubl]. It was formerly considered to be a variety of Albay Bicolano [bhk], the code for which has now been retired.
• Page 215–216: for ‘open (i.e., published and nonproprietary) formats’ read ‘open (i.e., published) formats’.
• Page 217, item # 18: for ‘[mariˈɡən]’ read ‘[mariʔˈɡən]’.

Olson & Hajek (1999)

• Page 109, paragraph 2: for ‘Brazil, Bolivia’ read ‘Brazil’.
• Page 109, paragraph 3: for ‘Kikuya’ read ‘Kukuya’.
• Page 110, 4th full paragraph: for ‘1999: 160’ read ‘1999: 159’.
• Page 113, paragraph 12: for ‘HOFFMAN’ read ‘HOFFMANN’.

Olson & Hajek (2003)

• Page 166, paragraph 4: for ‘v with a left loop (v)’ read ‘v with a left loop ()’.

Olson & Hajek (2004)

• Page 21, footnote 1: for ‘Thanks to Bruce Connell for technical assistance…’ read ‘Thanks to Bruce Connell, Barbara Need, and Jenny Shepherd for technical assistance…’.
• Page 30, section 3.1.3 (Tep): for ‘spiggot’ read ‘spigot’.
• Page 31, section 3.1.7 (Shona, HTML version only): for ‘vv̆’ read ‘v̆o’.
• Page 32, section 4.5 (Karang): for ‘Karang except ɔ’ read ‘Karang except ɔ’.
• Page 34, section 4.8 (Mambai): for “‘testicles” read “‘testicles’”.
• Page 47, section 5.4.8 (Dongo): for ‘ʋɔ́-ɛ̀’ read ‘ʋɔ́-ɛ̀’.
• Page 47, section 5.4.9 (Ngbaka-Ma’bo): for “word for ‘nine’” read “v̆íìná ‘nine’”.
• Page 49, section 7.3 (Mangbetu): for ‘…Demolin (1992)(Mangetu…’ read ‘…Demolin (1992) (Mangbetu…’.
• Page 52, section 9 (Other): for ‘Efik, /b/’ read ‘Efik [EFK], /b/’.
• Page 56, references (Thomas et al.): for ‘Bouquiaux;, and’ read ‘Bouquiaux; and’.

Soderberg & Olson (2008)

• Page 210, line 18: for ‘ˈkata’ read ‘ˈkat̪a’.