Sonya Bird

Sonya Bird completed her dissertation, “Phonetics and Phonology of Intervocalic Consonants of Lheidli,” in 2002. Sonya performed extensive acoustic analysis of Lheidli, an endangered Native American language spoken in British Columbia . She is a faculty member at the University of Victoria, where she is working on timing properties of doubly articulated sounds in Dakelh and St’at’imcets as well as other topics.