Publications and Presentations

Journal Articles

Griffin, L., & Nagy, N. (2025). Why Do Back Vowels Shift in Heritage Korean? Languages10(5), 105. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10050105

Lai, A. H., & Griffin, L. (2024). A Comparison of Heritage vs Homeland Taiwanese Mandarin Speaker Attitudes towards Sajiao. Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies 14 (1), 59–67. https://doi.org/10.15845/bells.v14i1.4340.

Bertrand, A., Aonuki, Y., Chen, S., Davis, H., Gambarage, J., Griffin L., Huijsmans, M., Matthewson, L., Reisinger, D. K. E., Rullmann, H., Salles, R., Schwan, M. D., Todorović, N., Trotter, B., & Vander Klok, J. (2022). Nobody’s Perfect. Languages 7(2), 148. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7020148

Proceedings Papers

Louie, F. T., Davis, H., Griffin, L., Huijsmans, M., Mellesmoen, G., Reisinger, D. K. E., & Trotter, B. (2025). niniǰɛ ʔəkʷ χʷɛƛ̓ay, ƛ̓aɬəm, hega ɬəlkælɛ, niniǰɛ q̓ʷaq̓ʷθəms təsqanaməs: ‘Mountain goats, salt, and bullets’: A historical narrative told by late Freddie Louie. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages 60, ed. Ella Hannon, Brian Diep, Laura Griffin, Mila Loginova, Bruce Oliver, Lauren Schneider, Reed Steiner, and Bailey Trotter. Vancouver, BC: UBCWPL, 249—267. https://lingpapers.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/07/LouieICSNL60.pdf

Schneider, L. & Griffin, L (2025). On the ‘go’: Exploring auxiliary-hood in ʔayʔaǰuθəm in comparative perspective. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages 60, ed. Ella Hannon, Brian Diep, Laura Griffin, Mila Loginova, Bruce Oliver, Lauren Schneider, Reed Steiner, and Bailey Trotter. Vancouver, BC: UBCWPL, 399—420. https://lingpapers.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/07/SchneiderGriffinICSNL60.pdf

Griffin, L., Akinbo, S., Ozburn, A., & Fwangwar, T. (2025). Tonal Alternations in Attributive Constructions in Mwaghavul. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 10(1), 5943. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v10i1.5943.

Kiss, A., Griffin, L., & Hing, L. C. N. (2025). How Are Polar Interrogatives in Mauritian Creole Formed? Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 10(1), 5942. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v10i1.5942.

Griffin, L. (2024). A sketch of content question formation in Eauripik Woleaian. In The title of this volume is shorter than its contributions are allowed to be: Papers in honour of Hotze Rullmann, ed. M. Ryan Bochnak, Eva Csipak, Lisa Matthewson, Marcin Morzycki and Daniel K. E. Reisinger. Vancouver, BC: UBCOPL, Volume 9, 157–170. https://lingpapers.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2024/11/UBCOPL_Hotzes_Volume_Griffin.pdf

Griffin, L. (2024). /o/! They’re j/u/st about the same!: Vowel Shift in Heritage and Homeland Korean. In Selected Papers from NWAV 51, ed. Xin Gao and Wesley Lincoln. Pennsylvania, PA: U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 30.2, 80–89. https://repository.upenn.edu/entities/publication/e865395d-d6b4-4b62-ae83-ed580f9f2838

Francis, J., Huijsmans, M., Davis, H., Griffin, L., Mellesmoen, G., Reisinger, D. K. E., & Trotter, B. (2022). The Sleigh Accident: An ʔayʔaǰuθəm Childhood Memory from Joanne Francis. In Papers for the International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages 57, ed. D. K. E. Reisinger, Laura Griffin, Gloria Mellesmoen, Sander Nederveen, Bruce Oliver, and Bailey Trotter. Vancouver, BC: UBCWPL, 62-66. https://lingpapers.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2022/08/ICSNL57_Francis_et_al.pdf

Reisinger, D. K. E. & Griffin, L. (2022). Unearthing Long-Forgotten Treasures: The Early Comox-Sliammon Materials. In Papers for the International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages 57, ed. D. K. E. Reisinger, Laura Griffin, Gloria Mellesmoen, Sander Nederveen, Bruce Oliver, and Bailey Trotter. Vancouver, BC: UBCWPL, 87-142. https://lingpapers.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2022/08/ICSNL57_Reisinger_Griffin.pdf

Griffin, L. & Lee, S. (2021). Morphological Variation in Back Vowels in Seoul and Jeolla Korean. International Christian University Working Papers in Linguistics 18, 65-72. https://doi.org/10.34577/00005026

Davis, H., Griffin, L., Huijsmans, M. & Mellesmoen, G. (2020). Extracting Possessors in ʔayʔaǰuθəm (and Beyond). Papers for the Fifty-fifth International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages (ICSNL), eds. D. K. E. Reisinger, Hannah Green, Marianne Huijsmans, Gloria Mellesmoen, and Bailey Trotter, 87-106.  http://lingpapers.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2020/07/05_ICSNL55_Davis_Griffin_Huijsmans_Mellesmoen_final.pdf

Galligos, K., Reisinger, D. K. E., Mellesmoen, G., Huijsmans, M. & Griffin, L. (2020). The Fisher and the Little Fish: An ʔayʔaǰuθəm Version of Aesop’s Fable. Papers for the Fifty-fifth International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages (ICSNL), eds. D. K. E. Reisinger, Hannah Green, Marianne Huijsmans, Gloria Mellesmoen, and Bailey Trotter, 151-154. http://lingpapers.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2020/07/09_ICSNL55_Galligos_et_al._final.pdf

Griffin, L. (2019). There and Back Again: qəǰi in ʔayʔaǰuθəm (Comox-Sliammon). Papers for the Fifty-fourth International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages (ICSNL), eds. D. K. E. Reisinger and Gloria Mellesmoen, 86-100. https://lingpapers.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2019/07/Griffin_2019_ICSNL.pdf

Refereed Talks and Posters

For an updated list of presentations and posters, please refer to my CV.