Publications

in progress. DiCanio, C. A reference grammar of Itunyoso Triqui. Project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Program.

submitted. DiCanio, C. and Sharp, J. Just how contrastive is word-initial consonant length? Phonetics, functional load, and language change in Itunyoso Triqui.

in press. DiCanio, C. Aspecto verbal en triqui de Itunyoso. In Swanton, M., San Giacomo Trinidad, M., and Hernández Mendoza, F., editors, Estudios sobre lenguas mixtecanas, p. 272–293. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

2022. Zellou, G, DiCanio, C, Pycha, A, Yu, A.C.L, Introduction to sound change in endangered or small speech communities. Linguistics Vanguard, Volume 9 (pages to appear). https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2021-0095. Also available here.

2022. DiCanio, C. The evolution of tonally-conditioned allomorphy in Triqui: evidence from spontaneous speech corpora. Linguistics Vanguard, Volume 9 (pages to appear). https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2021-0093. Also available here.

2022. DiCanio, C, Chen, W-R, Benn, J, Amith, J.D, Castillo García, R. Extreme stop allophony in Mixtec spontaneous speech: data, prosody, and modelling. Journal of Phonetics 92:1–18. Online version available here. Also available here.

2022. Whalen, D.H., DiCanio, C. and Dockum, R. Phonetic Documentation in Three Collections: Topics and Evolution Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 52(1):95–121. Also available here.

2021. DiCanio, Christian, Joshua Benn, and Rey Castillo García. Disentangling the effects of position and utterance-level declination on the production of complex tones. Language & Speech, 64(3):515–557. Also available here.

2020. DiCanio, Christian, Martínez Cruz, Basileo, Martínez Cruz, Wilberto, and Cruz Martínez, Benigno. Glottal toggling in Itunyoso Triqui. Phonological Data & Analysis 2(4):1–28. (This article is open access.)

2020. DiCanio, Christian, Caicai Zhang, D.H. Whalen, and Rey García. Phonetic structure in Yoloxóchitl Mixtec consonants. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 50(3):333-365.. Also available here.

2018. DiCanio, Christian, Joshua Benn, and Rey Castillo García. The Phonetics of information structure in Yoloxóchitl Mixtec. Journal of Phonetics 68:50-68. Also available here.

2018. DiCanio, Christian and Ryan Bennett. Prosody in Mesoamerican languages. Chapter 28 of The Oxford Prosody Handbook. Gussenhoven, C. and Chen, A. (eds). Oxford University Press.

2016. DiCanio, Christian. Tonal classes in Itunyoso Triqui person morphology, in Tone and Inflection, Empirical Approaches to Language Typology series, Mouton de Gruyter, Palancar, Enrique and Léonard, Jean-Léo (eds). Also available here.

2016. Armstrong, Meghan, Nicholas Henriksen, and Christian DiCanio. Sociophonetic analysis of young Peninsular Spanish women's voice quality. In Hispanic linguistics at the crossroads: Theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact, ed. by R. Klassen, J. M. Liceras & E. Valenzuela. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

2015. DiCanio, Christian, Hosung Nam, D.H. Whalen, Jonathan D. Amith, and Rey Castillo García. Vowel variability in elicited vs. running speech: evidence from Mixtec. Journal of Phonetics: Special issue on the Impact of Stylistic Diversity on Phonetic and Phonological Evidence and Modeling 48:45--59. Also available here.

2015. DiCanio, Christian and D.H. Whalen. The interaction of vowel length and speech style in an Arapaho speech corpus, Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Glasgow, Scotland. Also available here.

2014. DiCanio, Christian. Triqui tonal coarticulation and contrast preservation in tonal phonology, Proceedings from Sound Systems of Mexico and Central America, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

2014. DiCanio, Christian, Jonathan D. Amith, and Rey Castillo García. (2014) The phonetics of moraic alignment in Yoloxóchitl Mixtec, Proceedings from the 4th Tonal Aspects of Languages Conference, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

2014. DiCanio, Christian T. Cue weight in the perception of Trique glottal consonants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 135(2):884-895. Also available here.

2013. DiCanio, Christian, Hosung Nam, D.H. Whalen, H. Timothy Bunnell, Jonathan D. Amith, and Castillo García, R. Using automatic alignment to analyze endangered language data: Testing the viability of untrained alignment. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134(3):2235-2246. Also available here.

2012. DiCanio, Christian T, Hosung Nam, D.H. Whalen, H. Timothy Bunnell, Jonathan D. Amith, and Rey Castillo García. Assessing agreement level between forced alignment models with data from endangered language documentation corpora. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH, 2012. Portland, OR.

2012. DiCanio, Christian T. Cross-Linguistic Perception of Itunyoso Trique Tone, Journal of Phonetics, 40:672-688. Also available here.

2012. DiCanio, Christian T. The Phonetics of Fortis and Lenis Consonants in Itunyoso Trique, International Journal of American Linguistics, 78(2):239-272. Also available here.

2012. DiCanio, Christian T. Tone-Glottal Coarticulation in Itunyoso Trique. Journal of Phonetics, 40:162-176. Also available here.

2010. DiCanio, Christian T. Illustrations of the IPA: Itunyoso Trique. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 40(2):227-238. Also available here.

2009. DiCanio, Christian T. The Phonetics of Register in Takhian Thong Chong. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 39, 2, 162-188. Also available here.

2008. DiCanio, Christian T. The Phonetics and Phonology of San Martín Itunyoso Trique. Doctoral Dissertation. University of California, Berkeley.

2007. Johnson, Keith, Christian DiCanio, and Laurel MacKenzie. The Acoustic and Visual Phonetic Basis of Place of Articulation in Excrescent Nasals, Annual Report of the Phonology Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, 3:529-561.

2019. DiCanio, C. Documentation of San Martín Itunyoso Triqui. Language documentation archival deposit. Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA), UT Austin. 269 (27.4 hours) of transcribed recordings and time-aligned texts are archived. Available here.

2019. DiCanio, C., Martínez Cruz, Basileo, and Martínez Cruz, Wilberto. Líbrúu kwéntáa lécháa snáhánj nìh chiyúnh / Libreta pedagógica para la alfabetización triqui de Itunyoso (Pedagogical workbook for Itunyoso Triqui literacy). 40 pages, available here.

2010. DiCanio, C. and Cruz Martínez. Chungwì snáhánj nìh: El mundo Triqui. Palabras de San Martín Itunyoso. Colección diálogos: pueblos originarios de Oaxaca, Serie Glifos. Oaxaca, Mexico: Culturas Populares / CONACULTA.