2007                Korean Language Teaching in the United States. Twelfth Annual AATK (American Association of Teachers of Korean) Conference and Professional Development Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.  14-16 June 2007.

2007                 Traços Fonéticos Sobreviventes no Falar Micaelense de Alguns Imigrantes Açorianos em Greater Boston. II Encontro Açoriano da Lusofonia, Ribeira Grande, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal. 4-6 May 2007.   Click here for the handout.

2007                The Doctrine of "Other" and Political Realignment: Early Western Views of Korean.  2007 International Society for Language Studies Conference, Honolulu, HI. 2-4 April 2007.

2006                The Production of Second-Language English by Dinka and Nuer Speakers. Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver, BC.

2005                Chinese Korean Segmental Phonetics: A Field Report. 11^th Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. (co-author: Wenhua Jin)

2005                Toward a Revised Phonology of Stop Phonation in Korean. 11^th Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

2005                 The Development of Pitch-Accent in Standard Korean: Acoustic Evidence.  Between Stress and Tone (BeST). University of Leiden, The Netherlands.

2003                 Diachronic Shift in VOT Values for Korean Stop Consonants. 10^th Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. (co-authors: Younjeoung Choi and Ji Eun Kim)

2003                 Accounting for Back-Vowel Under-Differentiation: An Acoustically-Based Study of English-Speaking Learners of Korean. 8^th Annual Conference and Professional Development Workshop of the American Association of Teachers of Korean. The University of California, Berkeley. (co-author: Ji Eun Kim)

2002                 At Europe's Edge: The Status of Azorean Portuguese in a Typology of Romance Vowel Systems. Going Romance 2002. Department of Romance Languages, Rijksuniversitet Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.

2002                 Vowel Shifting and Resultant Inventories in Non-Standard Portuguese: A Case for Pursuing Endangered Dialects. 12^th Colloquium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Romance Linguistics. Department of Spanish & Portuguese, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.

2001                 Linguistic Conflict and the Individual: Vowel Shifting in Non-Standard European Portuguese. Language and Society on the Threshold of the New Millennium: Results and Prospects. Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. 

2001                 Vowel Shifting and Resultant Vowel Spaces in Azorean Portuguese. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, San Francisco, CA. 

1999                 O arqueiro, o cinzeiro e o cajueiro: the three suffixes –eiro in Modern Portuguese. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Denver, CO.

1998                 Phonological Phrasing of SOV Sentences in Korean: An Optimality-Based Account of a Quantitative Sample Survey. 11^th Meeting of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics. Honolulu, HI.

1997                 The Vowel System of São Miguel Portuguese:  Acoustic Analysis. Joint Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese and the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages, Nashville, TN.

1997                 The Lives of Women Linguists:  Words and Images. Organized multimedia display, Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, IL.

1996                 Mudanças Vocálicas e Identidade Social em Nordeste (São Miguel, Açores). Special Conference on Sociolinguistics organized by RC 25  (Research Committee on Sociolinguistics) of the International Sociological Association in conjunction with the Social Sciences Research Council of the University of Évora, Évora, Portugal.

1996                 Vowel Deletion in Azorean Portuguese. 8^th Annual Conference in Literature and Linguistics, University of North Texas, Denton, TX.

1996                 Women's Academic Career Paths in Linguistics:  A Preliminary Look at the 1995 Institutional Survey Data. Organized session on Academic Career Paths for Women in Linguistics, Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Diego, CA. (Also served as session organizer.)

1995                 Vowel Elision in Portuguese:  A Case of Linguistically Conditioned Variation. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, San Diego, CA.

1995                 The Status of Women in Linguistics, Past and Future. Organized session on Academic Career Paths for Women in Linguistics, Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans, LA.

1995                 Reevaluating Syntax-to-Phonology Mapping in Korean:  Evidence from Existential Verbs. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans, LA.

1994                 The Effects of Prosody and Phonation on the Pitch Characteristics of Bilabial Stops in Korean. 9^th Meeting of the International Circle of Korean Linguists, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, UK.

1994                 The Variable Use of Non-Standard Vowels in Azorean Portuguese. 3^rd Annual University of New Mexico Conference on Ibero-American Culture and Society, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.

1993                 Korean Lenition as Sonority Leveling. 5^th Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics (formerly the Harvard Workshop on Korean Linguistics), Cambridge, MA.

1991                 Towards Explanation in Variable Processes:  w-Deletion in Korean. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 20, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

1991                 Aspects of the Phonetics and Phonology of Lenis Stop Voicing in Korean. Southern California Conference on Japanese-Korean Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara.

1991                 Lenis Stop Voicing in Korean:  Assimilation or Weakening?  4^th Harvard Workshop on Korean Linguistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

1990                 Labiovelar Glide Deletion in Seoul Korean. 7^th Meeting of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.  (Delivered by J. Whitman)

1989                 A Comparison of Pitch-Accent in Korean and Japanese from a Prosodic Perspective. Southern California Conference on Japanese-Korean Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles.

1989                 Korean Stop Voicing:  Investigations into Prosodic Structuring. 3^rd Harvard Workshop on Korean Linguistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

1989                 The Status of Women in the Field of Linguistics. Conference on the Status of Women in the Field of Linguistics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.  (co-authors: A. Davison and W. Cichocki).

1988                 The Role of Prosody in Portuguese Vowel Elision:  Ond(e) foram as vogais áton(a)s?  New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 17, University of Montréal, Montréal, PQ.

1987                 Sociolinguistic Variance of Low Vowels in Azorean Portuguese. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 16, University of Texas, Austin, TX.

Invited Occasional Presentations (Colloquia and Course Lectures)

2007                The Effects of Dental Prosthetics on the First and Second Language Speech Patterns of Sudanese Refugees. Department of Anthropology and Geography, University of Nebraska--Lincoln, Lincoln, NE.  (Co-authors: Jerold A. Edmondson and Mary S. Willis)

2006                19th Century Missionary Efforts in the Revaluation of the Indigenous Korean Script, Hangul. Linguistics Colloquium, Rice University, Houston, TX.

2004                 Language Change in Korean Consonant Production. Korean Linguistics Colloquium, Department of Korean Studies, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.

2004                 Korean EFL and American KFL Learners: Some Reflections. Korean Language Practical Research and Multi-Discipline Educational Cooperation (한국어의 실용적 연구와 다학문간 학제적 협동), Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

2004                 Phonological Mapping as Dynamic: The Evolving Contrast Relationship between English and Korean.  English Linguistics Colloquium, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.

2004                 The Linguistic Sign. MODL 5300 (Professor Antoinette Sol), Department of Modern Language, UT Arlington.

2002                 The ‘mark of the beast’?: Western Attitudes toward the Korean Language at the Turn of the 20th Century. Academic Forum, International Linguistics Center, Dallas, TX.

2000                 Notes on Grammatical Gender and Nominal Derivation in Portuguese. Academic Forum, International Linguistics Center, Dallas, TX.

1997                 A Minority Dialect within a Minority Language Community: Initial Field Notes from the Portuguese-Speaking Community in Cambridge, MA. The Anthropology Honor Society and The Anthropology Club, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX.

1996                 Applied Phonological Theory. Academic Chit-Chat, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas, TX.

1995                 The (Socio-)Linguistics of Vowel Elision in Azorean Portuguese. Academic Chit-Chat, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas, TX.

1995                 The Role of Binarity in Korean Prosodic Structure. Academic Chit-Chat, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas, TX.

1993                 Variation in Variation. Academic Chit-Chat, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas, TX.

1991, 1992        The Korean Language. Introduction to Korea (Professor David McCann), Department of East Asian Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Professional Development Presentations

2008                    Linguistic Aspects of Cross-Cultural Health Discussions. Panel presentation at the 2nd Meeting of the Texas Association of Healthcare Interpreters and Translators, Fort Worth, TX.  (Co-panelists: Laurel Smith Stvan and Sarah Fauzi)

2003, '04, '05    Linguistic Perspectives on ESL. Two-day presentation at the annual ESL Summer Institute, organized by the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga and funded by the US Department of Education.

2003                 The Bare Bones of Language. Keynote address at a Professional Development Workshop entitled "Tricks of the Trade," sponsored by MasterWord Services, Houston, TX.

2003                 Are All Languages Created Equal? Keynote address at the August meeting of the Metroplex Interpreters and Translators Association (MITA), Irving, TX.

2001                Linguistic Aspects of Teaching ESL. Four-hour development workshop presented to the faculty of the Pinkston Language Academy, Dallas Independent School District.

1992                 Teaching Sociolinguistics in Freshman Writing Courses. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 21, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. (co-authors: S. McConnell-Ginet & A. Toribio)

1992                 Assignment Sequences: Teaching Students How to Write a Research Paper. J.S. Knight Writing Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

1991                 Assignment Sequences: Excerpts from Linguistics 123. J.S. Knight Writing Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

David J. Silva, U. T. Arlington, http://ling.uta.edu