Richard Hatcher Jr

University at Buffalo
Department of Linguistics Email: rjhatche@buffalo.edu
609 Baldy Hall Homepage: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/∼rjhatche/
Buffalo, NY 14260

Education
Ph.D. Linguistics, University Buffalo (SUNY) 2014 – Present
Dissertation: The Phonetics and Phonology of Cayuga Prosody
Committee: Karin Michelson (co-chair), Christian DiCanio (co-chair), Jeff Good

M.A. Linguistics, Seoul National University 2014

Thesis: A Description of Korean Converbs and their Northeast Asian Context
Committee: Kim Ju-won (chair), Kwon Jae-il, Lee Seung-jae

B.A. Linguistics, University of Oklahoma 2007

Minor in German

Non-degree Programs
2016 North American Summer School on Logic, Language, and Information 2016
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

2018 CoLang: Institute on Collaborative Language Research 2018

University of Florida

Grants, Fellowships, and Honors

Presidential Scholarship, University at Buffalo (SUNY) 2014-2018
UB Department of Linguistics, Research Funds 2017

Positions
Instructor: Korean 101/2, University at Buffalo 2017 - present

Research Assistant, University at Buffalo Summers 2018-2020

NSF Grant: Tools for Documentation and Revitalization in Seneca (see)
Karin Michelson (PI)

Research Assistant, University at Buffalo 2016-2017

Prosody of Focus in Itunyoso Triqui (trq)
Christian DiCanio (PI)

Teaching Assistant: LIN 200, 207, 301 2014-2016

University at Buffalo
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Publications
(submitted). DiCanio, Christian and Richard Hatcher. “Is intonation universal?: Fieldwork, phonologiza-
tion, and phonetics.”
2021. Prud’hommeaux, Emily, Robbie Jimerson, Richard Hatcher, Karin Michelson. “Automatic Speech
Recognition for Supporting Endangered Language Documentation,” Language Documentation and
Conservation 15 (2021): 591–513, http://hdl.handle.net/10125/74666

2020. Bellingham, Erika, Hanno Beck, Richard Hatcher. A Discourse Model for “Undirected” Speculation,
in Fresh Perspectives in Major Issues in Pragmatics, Routledge, New York, USA.

Refereed Conference Talks and Posters

2021. Hatcher, Richard, Robbie Jimerson, Emily Prud’hommeaux, Karin Michelson. Corpus Phonetic
Investigation into Seneca Accentuation. Paper presented at The 7th International Conference on
Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC): Recognizing Relationships. March 4-7, Virtual.

2020. Hatcher, Richard. Cayuga word melodies – A corpus phonetic study. A poster presented at the 179th
Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America: Acoustics Virtually Everywhere (AVE). December 7-11.
Virtual.
2020. Hatcher, Richard & Robbie Jimerson. 19th Century Seneca in the Works of Asher Wright. Talk
given at the winter meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
(SSILA 2020). January 3rd, New Orleans, USA.

2019. Jimerson, Robbie, Richard Hatcher, Raymond Ptucha, & Emily Prud’hommeaux. Speech technology
for supporting community-based endangered language documentation. Poster presented at The 6th
International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC), Connecting Com-
munities, Languages & Technology. March 1, Honolulu, HI, USA.
2019. Hatcher, Richard, Robert Jimerson, Whitney Nephew, Mike Jones, Julia Cordani, Linnea Cremean
& Emily Prud’hommeaux. 2019. Additional ways of integrating community-based language docu-
mentation and language revitalization. Talk given at The 6th International Conference on Language
Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC), Connecting Communities, Languages & Technology. Febru-
ary 28, Honolulu, HI, USA.

2019. Hatcher, Richard. Is Cayuga a Top-down Pitch Accenting Language? - Some initial Corpus-
Phonological Findings. Poster presented at THe 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of
America. January 3, New York, NY, USA.

2018. DiCanio, Christian & Richard Hatcher. On the non-universality of intonation: evidence from Triqui.
Poster presented at the 176th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. November 8, Victoria, BC,
Canada.

2018. Bellingham, Erika, Richard Hatcher & Hanno Beck. A Discourse Model for Undirected Speculation.
Talk given at the 4th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA).
November 1-3, University at Albany (SUNY), Albany, NY, USA.
2018. DiCanio, Christian & Richard Hatcher. Does Itunyoso Triqui have intonation? Talk given at
Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP) 4: Sociolectal and dialectal variability in
prosody. October 11-13, University of Massachussetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA
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2018. Hatcher, Richard & Christian DiCanio. Negation Strategies in Itunyoso Triqui: Evidence from
Experimental and Corpus Data. Talk given at the winter meeting of the Society for the Study of the
Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA 2018). January 4th, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

2016. Hatcher, Richard. Using Focus Particles in Determining Focus in Oneida. Talk given at 21st Work-
shop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 2016). April 1, Université
du Québec á Montréal, Canada.

Invited Talks
2019. Constructing a forced alignment system for Itunyoso Triqui - Challenges, Outcomes, and Opportu-
nities. Talk given at Celebrating Indigenous and Refugee Language Communities in New York State.
September 27, Cornell University, Ithica, USA

Manuscripts
2017. Hatcher, Richard & Lottie Keye. The Dog Catcher - annotated. Ms.
The University at Buffalo and the Woodland Culture Centre.

2017. Hatcher, Richard & Lottie Keye. The Rooster, Jackie - annotated. Ms.
The University at Buffalo and the Woodland Culture Centre.

Professional Affiliations
Linguistic Society of America

Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas

Acoustical Society of America

Association of Laboratory Phonology

Linguistic Fieldwork
2017 Cayuga (Iroquoian) Brantford, Ontario

Languages
English[eng] (native), Korean [kor] (fluent), German [deu] (Intermediate), Cayuga [cay] (fieldwork, research),
Seneca [see] (fieldwork, research).
Last updated: December 4, 2021
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