Keren Rice Explained

Keren D. Rice
Nationality:	Canadian
Fields:	Linguistics
Workplaces:	University of Toronto
Awards:	Order of Canada

Keren D. Rice (born 1949) is a Canadian linguist. 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).

Awards and distinctions

Rice was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2005.^[6] She was elected as a fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2009.^[7]
Rice was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2014.^[8]
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 2013 she was appointed by the Governor General of Canada as an Officer in the Order of Canada,^[12] which is one of Canada's highest civilian honors.^[13]
In 2015 she was elected as a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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 served as president of the Canadian Linguistic Association from 1998 to 2002^[16]
Rice served as the president of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in 2012.^[17]
Rice served as the president of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT) from 2020 until 2022.^[18]

Publications

Rice, K. 1977. Hare Noun Dictionary. Ottawa: Northern Social Research Division, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs.

E. Cook and K. Rice (eds.) 1989. Athapaskan Linguistics: Current Perspectives on a Language Family. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Rice, K. 1989. A Grammar of Slave. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

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.

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.

External links

Linguist List: Famous Linguists | https://linguistlist.org/linguists/rice/
LSA Member Spotlight: | http://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/lsa-member-spotlight/may-june11
U of T Magazine | http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/feature/keren-rice-u-of-t-aboriginal-studies-program/
U of T: Boundless | http://boundless.utoronto.ca/story/keren-rice/
Canada Research Chairs | http://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/chairholders-titulaires/profile-eng.aspx?profileId=850

Notes and References

Web site: Office of the Vice-Provost and Provost, University of Toronto . January 13, 2015.
Web site: Keren D. Rice. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 17 July 2023.
Web site: 2017-10-18 . PhD Alumni . 2023-05-27 . Department of Linguistics . en.
Web site: Google Scholar – Keren Rice citations . 2022-03-11 . scholar.google.com.
Richard Wright. Language lifeline. UC Observer. October 2017 https://www.ucobserver.org/justice/2017/10/language_lifeline/
Web site: AAAS Member Central: Fellows. January 25, 2015. dead. https://archive.today/20150125182610/http://membercentral.aaas.org/fellows?LastName=R&Section=All&Country=CANADA&State=All&name=Rice&company=. January 25, 2015.
Web site: LSA Fellows by Year of Induction Linguistic Society of America . 2023-02-24 . www.linguisticsociety.org.
Web site: APS Member History.
Web site: Keren Rice. February 1, 2015.
Web site: Canada Council awards five prominent scholars $100,000 Killam Prizes. April 19, 2011. January 25, 2015.
Web site: Prix nationaux d'excellence / National Achievement Awards. January 25, 2014.
Web site: Order of Canada Appointments. January 13, 2015.
Web site: LSA : Laurels for Linguists. January 25, 2015.
September 16, 2015. Arthur Kaptainis. U of T News. https://www.utoronto.ca/news/royal-society-canada-honours-u-ts-keren-rice-xxx
Laurels for Linguists. June 28, 2016. http://www.linguisticsociety.org/news/2016/06/28/laurels-linguists-keren-rice
Book: Marianna Di Paolo and Arthur K. Spears . Languages and Dialects in the U.S.: An Introduction to the Linguistics of Diversity: Focus on Diversity and Linguistics . Routledge . 2014 . 218.
Web site: Presidents: Linguistic Society of America . January 13, 2015.
Web site: Association for Linguistic Typology – Officers . May 26, 2023.