PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2026
Bonney, Rebecca Dufie. 2026. Talking to Children in their L1 Matters: Lasting ATR Harmony in Akan Heritage Speakers - The 57th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL). University of Buffalo - from May 21st to 23rd 2026 - [Paper Presentation]
Bonney, Rebecca Dufie. 2026. What Adult Speech Reveals About Child Language Acquisition: Evidence from ATR Vowel Harmony Production in Akan Heritage Speakers. 20th Workshop in General Linguistics (WiGL 20). University of Wisconsin–Madison - March 12th, 2026 (Online Session) [Paper Presentation]
Ajibade, Matthew & Bonney, Rebecca Dufie. 2026. What African Languages Contribute to Heritage Grammar. Fifth International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages. University of California, Los Angeles, USA, from February 27-28. [Paper Presentation]
Bonney, Rebecca Dufie. 2026. Phonetic Variability of [æ] by Akan-English Heritage Speakers Originates from Their Linguistic Input. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. New Orleans from January 8-11. [Poster Presentation]
2025
Kpogo, Felix. & Bonney, Rebecca Dufie. 2025. Doubly-articulated Stops are not Immune to Segmental Reduction; Evidence from G˜a Children’s Speech. The 56th Association of Contemporary African Linguistics (ACAL). Twin Cities in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, from May 15- 17. [Paper Presentation]
2024
Coppock, Elizabeth & Bonney, Rebecca Dufie. 2024. Existence, uniqueness, and familiarity. Talk presented at 5th DFG Network Meeting ‘Definiteness Across Domains’, March 2024, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.[Paper Presentation]
2023
Ladore, Madeline, Bonney, Rebecca Dufie, Struck, Anna, & Amoh-Yankyera, Abena. 2023. The semantic properties of plurals in Akan: An experimental investigation. The 54th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL). [Paper Presentation]
INVITED TALKS
April 21, 2026 - Introduction to Language Acquisition. Guest lecture at Boston University for Introduction to Linguistics course.
April 28, 2026 - Testing Quasi-Namehood: An Experimental Study of Akan Bare Nouns. Linguistics Semantics Lab, Boston University
March 27, 2025 – Who's Paying Attention to 'no'. Rethinking Akan Definiteness and Its Theoretical Implications. Linguistics Semantics Lab - African Linguistics Club, Boston University.
September 30, 2025 & October 2, 2025 – Introduction to syntax. Guest lecture at Boston University for Introduction to Linguistics course.
UPCOMING CONFERENCES & PUBLICATIONS
Talking to Children in their L1 Matters: Lasting ATR Harmony in Akan Heritage Speakers - The 57th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) - Paper Presentation - University of Buffalo - May 21st to 23rd 2026