Alexander Rice
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Alexander Rice (Ph.D., University of Alberta) is a postdoctoral scholar at Florida State University. He specializes in language documentation, cognitive semantics, morphosyntax, Quechuan languages, and multimodality (the study of speech and gesture). Dr. Rice has worked with speakers of Indigenous languages in the Ecuadorian Amazon for over 15 years and has provided language documentation and revitalization training to speakers of Amazonian Kichwa and Wao Terero. Currently, Dr. Rice is engaged in an NSF funded project (led by Dr. Antje Muntendam) that investigates bilingualism and language contact among Quechua communities in Peru and Argentina.
Language documentation and revitalization
Cognitive Semantics
Morphosyntax
Multimodality
Quechuan languages
Prosody
Bilingualism
Rice, A. (2025). Mashti: A multipurpose filler in Northern Pastaza Kichwa. In B. Pakendorf & F. Rose (Eds.), Fillers: Hesitatives and placeholders (pp. 373-439). Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15632051.
Rice, A. (2022). A recurring absence gesture in Northern Pastaza Kichwa: The spread-fingered hand torque. Gesture. 21(1), 28-81. https://doi.org/10.1075/gest.21008.ric.
Rice, A. (2021). Using YouTube as the primary transcription and translation platform for remote corpus work. Language Documentation & Conservation. 15, 514-550. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/74667.
Rice, A. (2020). Northern Pastaza Kichwa (Ecuador, Peru) - Language Snapshot. Language Documentation and Description, 19, 181-196. http://www.elpublishing.org/PID/219.
Nuckolls, J., Swanson, T., Shelton, D., Rice, A., & Hatton, S. (2017). Lexicography in-your-face: The active semantics of Pastaza Quichua ideophones. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue Canadienne De Linguistique, 62(2), 154-172. https://doi.org/10.1017/cnj.2017.9.