Online | Academic

SELECTED ONLINE PRESENCE

Guest posts on linguistics and everyday life on the UO Linguistics blog:

• “Linguistics in pop culture: Arrival (film)” (28 Nov 2016)

• “Linguistics in the news – Election season” (7 Nov 2016)

Consonant Aspirations blog selected posts:

• “Futureless languages?”  (1 Mar 2013) (about Keith Chen’s study that the language you speak affects your savings behavior)

• “Issues with Ice Age Linguistics” (14 May 2013)

• Singlish: Creole, creoloid, creolized language? (19 May 2016)

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ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Book

Teo, Amos. 2014. A phonological and phonetic description of Sumi, a Tibeto-Burman language of Nagaland. Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics [link]

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Peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings

Teo, Amos. 2022. “Pre-modern language contact in Nagaland.” In Mark W. Post, Stephen Morey & Toni Huber (Eds.), Ethno-linguistic prehistory of the Eastern Himalaya. Brill.

Teo, Amos. 2018. “Differential A and S marking in Sumi – synchronic and diachronic considerations.” In Ilja A. Seržant & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (Eds.), Diachrony of Differential Argument Marking (Studies in Diversity Linguistics). (pp. 381–400). Berlin: Language Science Press.

Teo, Amos. 2017. “The coding of identifiability in Mòòré.” In Doris Payne, Sara Pacchiarotti & Mokaya Bosire (Eds.), Diversity in African languages: Selected papers from the 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (Contemporary African Linguistics 1). (pp. 41-61). Berlin: Language Science Press.

Teo, Amos, Lauren Gawne and Melissa Baese-Berk. 2015. “A case study of tone and intonation in two Tibetic language varieties.” In The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK: The University of Glasgow.

Konnerth, Linda and Amos Teo. 2014. “Acoustic-statistical and perceptual investigations of Karbi tones: A peculiar case of incomplete neutralisation of F0.” In Gwendolyn Hyslop, Linda Konnerth, Stephen Morey & Priyankoo Sarmah (Eds.), North East Indian Linguistics, Volume 6 (pp. 13-37). Canberra: Asia Pacific Linguistics (2014).

Teo, Amos. 2012. “Illustrations of the IPA: Sumi (Sema).” Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 42(3), 365-373.

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Selected conference presentations

Teo, Amos and Melissa Baese-Berk. (forthcoming). “Production and perception of focus in Sümi.” 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Melbourne, Australia. August 5, 2019.

Teo, Amos. “A corpus-based typology of case marking alignment using parallel texts from the Linguistic Survey of India.” 12th Conference for the Association of Linguistic Typology. Australian National University, Canberra. December 14, 2017.

Hildebrandt, Kristine and Amos Teo. “Tibeto-Burman tone typology in the South Asian context.” International workshop on typological profiles of language families of South Asia, Uppsala University, Uppsala, September 16, 2016.

Teo, Amos. “Typological studies of argument marking in Tibeto-Burman languages: comparing old and new methods of analysis.” Capturing Phylogenetic Algorithms for Linguistics (Workshop). Lorentz Center, Leiden. October 28, 2015.

Konnerth, Linda and Amos Teo. “Mismatch between tonal production and perception in Karbi.” (poster) 14th Conference on Laboratory Phonology. National Institute for Japanese Linguistics, Tokyo, July 27, 2014.

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At the 10th North-East Indian Linguistics Society conference in Silchar, Assam (Jan 29-31, 2018)