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“Kiswahili Compounds” 38^th Annual Conference of African Linguistics University of Florida-Gainesville	March  2007
“Cherokee and Conformity to General Principles of Animacy Marking” 2005 Annual Meeting of The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas in conjunction with the 79^th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America Oakland, CA	January 2005
“Correlation of Object Marking in Cherokee with Restrictions on Passivization” Research Day for Regional Universities University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK	November 2003
“A Semantic Hierarchy of Nominal Reduplication in Kiswahili and Kinyakyusa” 4^th World Congress of African Linguistics Rutgers University	June 2003
“Total Physical Response Storytelling and Native Languages” 6^th Annual Oklahoma Native Language Association Northeastern State University Center for Tribal Studies and Oklahoma Indian Methodist Missionary Conference Center Preston, OK	October 2001
“Ideophones and Expressives in Kiswahili and Kinyakyusa” 32^nd Annual Conference of African Linguistics University of California-Berkeley	March 2001
“Reduplication in Swahili” International Colloquium on Kiswahili 2000 Institute of Kiswahili Research University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	March 2000
“The Acquisition, Categorization, and Interpretation of Reduplicated Words by American Learners of Swahili” 30^th Annual Conference of African Linguistics University of Illinois-Champaign	July 1999
AAnimacy: A Principle of Grammatical Organization@ 35^th Annual Chicago Linguistic Society University of Chicago	April 1999
ASwahili HyperCard Exercises: Two Demonstrations@ 3^rd Annual International Conference of the African Language Teachers Howard University	April 1999
AA Comprehensive Second-Year Syllabus for Swahili@ 2^nd Annual International Conference of the African Language Teachers Association Michigan State University	April 1998
AAn Animacy-Sensitivity Continuum@ Association for Linguistic Typology II University of Oregon-Eugene	September 1997
AThe Marking of Grammatical Relations in Swahili@ 2^nd World Congress of African Linguistics University of Leipzig, Germany	July 1997
AInternet Exercises for First-Year Swahili@ 1^st Annual International Conference of the African Language Teachers Association University of Wisconsin-Madison	April 1997
ACase Marking and Agreement in Three Bantu Languages @ 27^th Annual Conference on African Linguistics University of Florida-Gainesville	March 1996
AAnimacy and Pronominal Systems in Bantu@ 26^th Annual Conference on African Linguistics University of California-Los Angeles	March 1995
AVariation in Bantu Verbal Agreement@ 1^st World Congress of African Linguistics University of Swaziland	July 1994
AFactors Promoting Object Agreement in Swahili@ 25^th Annual Conference on African Linguistics Rutgers University	March 1994
AThe Syllable Structure in Swahili@ 24^th Annual Conference on African Linguistics The Ohio State University	July 1993
AAdjective Categorization in Swahili@ AAnaphor Distribution in Swahili: The Case of Ji, Yake, and Mwenyewe” 23th Annual Conference on African Linguistics Michigan State University	March 1992
AA Silent Revolution@ Conference on Sustainable Agriculture in Africa: Socio-Cultural, Political, and Economic Considerations The Ohio State University	May 1990