Currently, most of my research is on Akuzipik (or St. Lawrence Island Yupik, ISO 639-3: ess), an endangered Indigenous language mainly spoken on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. My work is part of a larger community-centered documentation and revitalization project led by Sylvia Woodrose Schwartz (GMU) and Lane Woodrose Schwartz (UAF).
I’m in the process of writing my dissertation, “The sounds of Akuzipik”. In the dissertation I systematically analyze vowels and consonants, investigate (morpho)phonological processes, and document some of the observed inter-speaker phonetic variation from a sociolinguistic perspective.
Giulia M. Soldati 