Anthropology

Sky Onosson

D. Sky Onosson (MA Linguistics, University of Manitoba; BA Linguistics and Asian Studies, University of Manitoba) has been working in the areas of Phonetics and Phonology, after developing his MA thesis on Canadian Raising in Manitoba.  He is interested in areas such as acoustic phonetics, articulatory phonology, dialect studies, among others.  Sky is planning to begin PhD work in the coming year, with the aim to develop on the findings from his MA research.

Sky is currently teaching Phonetics and Phonology, and Introductory Linguistics at the University of Winnipeg for the 2013 winter semester.

Research Interests

Primary interests: acoustic phonetics, articulatory phonology, diphthongs, phonetics/phonology interface, lexical frequency effects, dialects, Canadian English

Other interests: linguistic topic and pragmatic roles, Japanese, Korean, English- source Caribbean Creoles, tone languages