Refereed
Linguistics
Blaine Billings. upcoming. Historical linguistics data citation and reusability: With a case study of the Sumatran comparative database. Paper presented at the 27ᵗʰ International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL27), Santiago, Chile, 18–22 August.
Bradley McDonnell & Blaine Billings. upcoming. Variation and change in Nasal function words. Paper presented at the 17ᵗʰ Conference on Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics (APLL17), Cologne, Germany, 21–23 July
Blaine Billings. upcoming. The state of Sumatran lexicography: Ongoing projects and prospects for lexical documentation. Paper presented at the 25ᵗʰ Biennial Dictionary Society of North America Conference (DSNA25), Buffalo, NY, USA, 29–31 May.
Blaine Billings. 2025. Metalexicography for the documentary linguist: Informing internal documentation with external materials. Paper presented at the
Southeastern Conference on Linguistics 2025 (SECOL2025), Boca Raton, FL, USA, 10–12 April. (
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Blaine Billings. 2025. Documentary lexicography: The need for a field. Paper presented at the
9ᵗʰ International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC9), Honolulu, HI, 6–9 March. (
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Blaine Billings, Jacob Hakim, Johan Safri, Wawan Sahrozi, Bradley McDonnell, & Yanti. 2025. Collaborative documentation as a catalyst for language maintenance. Paper presented at the
9ᵗʰ International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC9), Honolulu, HI, 6–9 March. (
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Blaine Billings & Bradley McDonnell. 2025. Connecting automated speech recognition to transcription practices. Paper presented at the
8ᵗʰ Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-8), Honolulu, HI, 4–5 March. (
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Shelece Easterday,
Blaine Billings, & Clemens Mayer. 2024. Emergence of divergent phonotactics in Austronesian: A distributional typological approach. Panel paper presented at the
16ᵗʰ International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (ICAL16), Manila, Philippines, 20–24 June. (
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Bradley McDonnel,
Blaine Billings, Jacob Hakim, Dendi Wijaya, & Yanti. 2024. A window into the early history of langauge contact in Sumatra. Paper presented at the
16ᵗʰ International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (ICAL16), Manila, Philippines, 20–24 June. (
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Blaine Billings. 2024. Do you *c what I *c? Proto-Batak palatals and what they (don't) say about PMP. Paper presented at the
33ʳᵈ Conference of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS33), Taipei, Taiwan, 15–17 June. (
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Blaine Billings. 2024. Building a comparative lexical database for the Sumatran languages. Paper presented at the
31ˢᵗ Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA31), Amherst, MA, USA, 12–14 June. (
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Blaine Billings. 2023. Contact-induced phonological change in the Sumatran languages. Poster presented at the
Sixth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology (ESHP6), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 4–5 December. (
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Blaine Billings & Bradley McDonnell. 2023. On the use of Malay function words in Nasal. Paper presented at the
26ᵗʰ International Symposium on Malay and Indonesian Linguistics (ISMIL26), Honolulu, HI, USA, 18–20 May. (
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Nay San, Martijn Bartelds, Blaine Billings, Ella del Falco, Johan Safri, Wawan Sahrozi, Ben Foley, Bradley McDonnell, & Dan Jurafsky. 2023. Leveraging supplementary text data to kick-start automatic speech recognition system development with limited transcriptions. Paper presented at the 6ᵗʰ Worksohp on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages (ComputEL-6), Honolulu, HI, USA, 5–6 March.
Laura Griffin &
Blaine Billings. 2023. A sketch of modals in Chuukic languages. Paper presented at the
22ⁿᵈ East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference, Honolulu, HI, USA, 16–18 February. (
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Bradley McDonnell, Yanti,
Blaine Billings, & Jacob Hakim. 2022. Constructing a multilingual corpus of everyday conversations. Paper presented at the
14ᵗʰ Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT14), Austin, TX, USA, 15–17 December. (
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Blaine Billings & Bradley McDonnell. 2022. Subgrouping Malayo-Polynesian languages of Sumatra and the Barrier Islands. Paper presented at the
31ˢᵗ Conference of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS33), Honolulu, HI, USA, 18–20 May. (
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Mathematics / Computer Science
Blaine Billings, Terence Carey, Xandre Clementsmith, & Lancie Affonso. 2019. Integrating STEAM education in classroom living learning communities. Poster presented at College of Charleston School of Sciences and Mathematics 31ˢᵗ Annual Poster Session, Charleston, SC, USA, 28 April.
Blaine Billings & Xenia Mountrouidou. 2018. Modeling correct operation of webcams for security purposes. Paper and poster presented at Special Interest Group for Computer Science Education 2018 (SIGCSE2018) Undergraduate Student Research Competition, Baltimore, MD, USA, 21–24 February.
Blaine Billings & Dinesh Sarvate. 2017. GDD(n,2,4;λ₁,λ₂) with equal number of blocks of three configurations. Paper presented at 31ˢᵗ Midwestern Conference on Combinatorics and Combinatorial Computing (MCCCC), Carrollton, GA, USA, 20–22 October.
Xenia Mountrouidou, Blaine Billings, & Luis Mejía-Ricart. 2017. An internet of things taxonomy: Characterizing and classifying modern devices. Poster presented at College of Charleston School of Sciences and Mathematics 29ᵗʰ Annual Poster Session, Charleston, SC, USA, 20 April.
Blaine Billings, Kasifa Namyalo, & Dinesh G. Sarvate. 2017. GDD(n₁+n₂,3;λ₁,λ₂) with equal number of blocks of two configurations. Paper presented at 29th Midwestern Conference on Combinatorics and Combinatorial Computing (MCCCC), Charleston, SC, USA, 17–19 October.
Other
Bradley McDonnell & Blaine Billings. 2025. Divergence and convergence in Sumatra and the Barrier Islands. Presented at The Enggano language documentation and lexicography: A reflection, Udayana University, Denpasar, Indonesia, 9 January.
Bradley McDonnell, Yanti, Dendi Wijaya, Jacob Hakim, &
Blaine Billings. 2023. The changing face of language documentation: Examples from Indonesia. Presented at the
UHM Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Honolulu, HI, USA, 8 November. (
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Blaine Billings. 2021. Historical Phonology of the Languages of Northwest Sumatra and the Barrier Islands. Presented at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Austronesian Circle , Honolulu, HI, USA, 26 October.
Blaine Billings. 2021. The languages of Alor regency: Assessing language endangerment. Presentation at the
Webinar Bahasa-Bahasa yang Hampir Punah 3 [3ʳᵈ Webinar on Endangered Languages], Kupang, Nusa Tenggara Timor, Indonesia, 30 March. (
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