Keren D. RiceOC (born 1949) is a Canadianlinguist. She is a professor of linguistics and serves as the Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Initiatives at the University of Toronto.[1][2]
Education and career
Rice earned her PhD in 1976 from the University of Toronto, with a dissertation entitled, "Hare phonology."[3]
She has published numerous works in both theoretical and Native American linguistics, in particular on Athapaskan languages.[4] She specializes in research on Slavey, an indigenous language spoken in Canada's Northwest Territories, and has long been involved in maintaining and revitalizing the language.[5] She has made contributions to the study of phonological markedness (Rice 2007) and to the interaction of phonology, morphology and semantics (Rice 2000).
From 2002 to 2008 she served on the board of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), a granting agency of the federal government of Canada.[9]
In 2011 she received the Killam Prize, given annually to five of Canada's finest academics for their career achievements in fields of scientific and scholastic research.[10]
In 2013 she won the National Achievement Award from the Canadian Linguistic Association for outstanding contributions to the field of linguistics.[11]
In 2015 she was elected as a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[2]
In 2015 Rice received the Pierre Chauveau medal of the Royal Society of Canada, awarded for her continued contributions as a scholar, including her extensive work in language documentation, activism, and theoretical linguistics.[14][15]
Rice, K. 1992. "On deriving sonority: a structural account of sonority relationships." Phonology 9:61—99.
Rice, K. 1993. "A reexamination of the feature [sonorant]: the status of 'sonorant obstruents'." Language 69: 308–344.
Rice, K. 1996. Default variability: The coronal-velar relationship. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 14, 493–543. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00133597
Rice, K. 2000. Morpheme Order and Semantic Scope: Word Formation in the Athapaskan Verb. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rice, K. 2006. Ethical Issues In Linguistic Fieldwork: An Overview. Journal of Academic Ethics 4, 123–155. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-006-9016-2
Rice, K. 2007. Markedness in phonology. In P. Lacy (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics, pp. 79–98). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511486371.005
Rice, K. & L. Saxon. 2008. Comparative Athapaskan Syntax: Arguments and Projections. In: The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax, Edited by Guglielmo Cinque and Richard S. Kayne. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195136517.013.0016
^Marianna Di Paolo and Arthur K. Spears (2014). Languages and Dialects in the U.S.: An Introduction to the Linguistics of Diversity: Focus on Diversity and Linguistics. Routledge. p. 218.
