Below are a selection of my publications, some of which are also available on my Academia.edu site. A short, web-friendly version of my CV is downloadable here. If you are interested in accessing any of the work not linked here, please get in touch with me.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

2023

• Ring, Hiram. Gender, classifiers, and diachrony in Khasian. In Marc Tang and Marcin Kilarski, eds., Nominal Classification in Asia: Functional and diachronic perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2020

• Pang, Joyce S. and Hiram Ring. Automated coding of implicit motives: A machine-learning approach. Motivation and Emotion, pp. 1–19. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-020-09832-8. URL https://rdcu.be/b38pm. Both authors contributed equally to this work.
• Ring, Hiram. Word order and the grammaticalization of gender in Khasian. In Alves, Mark, Mathias Jenny, and Paul Sidwell, eds., Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective, pp. 107-134. Leiden: Brill. DOI https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004425606_006

2018

• Ring, Hiram and Gregory D. S. Anderson. On prosodic structures in Austroasiatic diachrony: ‘Rhythmic holism’ revisited in light of preliminary acoustic studies. In Ring, Hiram and Felix Rau, eds., Papers from the Seventh International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics. Journal of the South-East Asian Linguistics Society, Special Publication 3, pp. 1–35. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52438

2016

• Gawne, Lauren and Hiram Ring. Map making for language documentation and description. Language Documentation and Conservation, 10:188–242. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24692

2015

• Ring, Hiram. Pnar. In Jenny, Matthias and Paul Sidwell, eds., Handbook of the Austroasiatic Languages, Volume 2, Ch. 20, pp. 1186–1226. Brill.

2014

• Ring, Hiram. Nominalization in Pnar. Mon-Khmer Studies Journal, Volume 43 (ICAAL 5 special issue), pp. 16–23.

2012

• Ring, Hiram. A phonetic description and phonemic analysis of Jowai-Pnar. Mon-Khmer Studies Journal, Volume 40, pp. 133–175.

Edited Volumes

2023

• Ring, Hiram and Paul Sidwell, eds., Papers from the Eighth International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics. Journal of the South-East Asian Linguistics Society, Special Publication 11. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. https://hdl.handle.net/10524/52509

2018

• Ring, Hiram and Felix Rau, eds., Papers from the Seventh International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics. Journal of the South-East Asian Linguistics Society, Special Publication 3. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52438

Working Papers and Digital Resources

2020

• Pang, Joyce S. and Hiram Ring. Automating implicit motive coding: Replication data and descriptives. OSF. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/AURWB. Url: https://osf.io/aurwb/

2018

• Data for paper on prosody in Austroasiatic languages. Url: https://github.com/lingdoc/data_AA_prosody_paper

• Maps of the Khasian Varieties. Url: http://github.com/lingdoc/maps-Khasian_lects

2017

• Replication Data for: A grammar of Pnar, DR-NTU (Data), V1. Url: https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/KVFGBZ

• Analyze Tone and Plot: A Praat script for tonal exploration and analysis. Url: http://github.com/lingdoc/praatscripts/tree/master/Analyze_tone

2015

• The trs2txt script: A conversion tool to produce time-aligned Toolbox files. Url: http://www.academia.edu/18967348/

• Pnar_Language_Archive: Pnar corpus files; time-aligned, transcribed, and interlinearized texts in .txt, .flac and .pdf formats.

2014

• with Matthew Lou-Magnuson. Toolbox Searches and Writes v0.2: A Python script for searching a Toolbox corpus and returning collocations.

2012

• Praat workshop - using textgrids with scripts for automatic measurement. Url: http://www.academia.edu/2049819/.

Refereed Conference Papers

2019

• Advances in reconstruction of Austroasiatic clause structure (with Mathias Jenny and Wei Wei Lee). 8th International Conference on Austro-Asiatic Linguistics (ICAAL 8), Chiang Mai, Thailand (27-30 Aug).

• Toward a comprehensive grammar of War (with Paul Sidwell). 8th International Conference on Austro-Asiatic Linguistics (ICAAL 8), Chiang Mai, Thailand (27-30 Aug).

• Khasian clause structure and word order. Workshop: Reconstructing Austroasiatic syntax, 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 24), ANU, Canberra (1-5 July).

• Syntactic reconstruction in Austroasiatic - overview, perspectives, methodology (with Mathias Jenny and Wei Wei Lee). Workshop: Reconstructing Austroasiatic syntax, 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 24), ANU, Canberra (1-5 July).

• The Greater Burma Zone: Linguistics and questions of History and Ethnicity across borders and boundaries (with Patrick McCormick, Mathias Jenny, Andre Müller). Organized panel session: Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Denver (21-24 March).

• On reconstructing proto-Austroasiatic syntax: Methodology and implications (with Mathias Jenny and Wei Wei Lee). 29th meeting of the SouthEast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 29), May 27-29, 2019, Tokyo, Japan.

Invited Seminars and Workshops

2018

• Reconstructing word order in Austroasiatic: methodology and implications (with Mathias Jenny and Wei-Wei Lee). Perspectives on Word Order Evolution: Reconstruction, Typology, and Processing (Workshop), 8-9 November, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

2017

• Verb-initial clauses in Pnar and Khasi. Workshop: Perspectives on Word Order, 27 September, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

• Toward automatic coding of implicit motives via machine learning (with Joyce S. Pang). Invited talk given at Institute of Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Motivation, and Affective Neuroscience, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany

2017

• Verb-initial order, Gender, and Diachrony in Khasian. AA Workshop, 5-7 September, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

2015

• Building tools for linguistic fieldwork: A use case for Xigt and Python computational tools on the web. Xigt Workshop, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 18-19 November.

• Towards an expansive Khasi dictionary project with the aid of technology. Riti Academy, Shillong (Meghalaya, India), 20 October. http://theshillongtimes.com/2015/10/25/discussion-on-creating-expansive-khasi-dictionary/, http://thenortheasttoday.com/towards-an-expansive-khasi-dictionary-with-the-aid-of-technology/