Kenneth S. Olson

Linguistics Publications

Peer-reviewed Publications

• Olson, Kenneth S. 2004. Mono. (Illustrations of the IPA.) Journal of the International Phonetic Association 34(2). 233–238.
• Olson, Kenneth S. 2005. The phonology of Mono (SIL International and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics 140). Dallas: SIL & UTA.
  • This is the published version of Olson's 2001 dissertation from the University of Chicago: The phonology and morphology of Mono.
  • Review: Paster, Mary. 2006. Review of The Phonology of Mono. Linguist List 17.1958. http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-1958.html. (6 July, 2006.)
• 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.
• Olson, Kenneth S. & John Hajek. 1999. The phonetic status of the labial flap. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 29(2). 101–114.
• Olson, Kenneth S. & John Hajek. 2003. Crosslinguistic insights on the labial flap. Linguistic Typology 7(2). 157–186.
• Olson, Kenneth S. & John Hajek. 2004. A crosslinguistic lexicon of the labial flap. Linguistic Discovery 2(2). 21–57. http://linguistic-discovery.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/2/xmlpage/1/article/262. (April, 2004.)
• Olson, Kenneth S., Glenn Machlan & Nelson Amangao. 2008. Minangali (Kalinga) digital wordlist: Presentation form. Language Documentation & Conservation 2(1). 141–156. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/1772. (July, 2008.)
• Olson, Kenneth S. & Jacques Vermond Mbomate. 2007. Ngbugu digital wordlist: Presentation form. Linguistic Discovery 5(1). 40–47. http://linguistic-discovery.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/2/xmlpage/1/article/317. (January, 2008.)
• 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.
• 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. http://linguistic-discovery.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/2/xmlpage/1/article/314. (January, 2008.)
• Soderberg, Craig D. & Kenneth S. Olson. 2008. Indonesian. (Illustrations of the IPA.) Journal of the International Phonetic Association 38(2). 209–213.
• 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

• Boone, Douglas W. & Kenneth S. Olson. 2004. Bwa bloc survey report. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2004–013. Dallas: SIL. http://www.sil.org/silesr/2004/silesr2004-013.pdf. (12 October, 2004.)
• 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. http://link.aip.org/link/?JASMAN/100/2601/1. (26 September, 2007.)
• 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.
• Olson, Kenneth S. 2004. An evaluation of Niger-Congo classification. SIL Electronic Working Papers 2004–005. Dallas: SIL. http://www.sil.org/silewp/2004/silewp2004-005.pdf. (12 October, 2004.) [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. & John Hajek. 2001. The geographic and genetic distribution of the labial flap. SIL Electronic Working Papers 2001–002. Dallas: SIL. http://www.sil.org/silewp/2001/002/SILEWP2001-002.pdf. (27 November, 2001.)
• Olson, Kenneth S. & Jeff Mielke. 2008. Acoustic properties of the interdental approximant in Kagayanen. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 123(5). 3460.
• 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. http://www.und.edu/dept/linguistics/wp/2002.htm.

Errata and Addenda

NOTE: to view the errata and addenda correctly, you will need to install the Doulos SIL font.

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…'.

Olson and 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 and Hajek (2003)

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

Olson and 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'.