Refereed conference talks

2025

• Shaikh, Maaz & Benjamin Tucker.
  Zangskari fricatives: Acoustic and articulatory cues.
  Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada,
  22 November 2025.
  Slides

• Shaikh, Maaz & Benjamin Tucker.
  An articulatory description of the Zangskari coronal obstruents.
  International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Language and Linguistics (ICSTLL-58),
  University of Bern, Switzerland, 3–5 September 2025.
  Slides

• Shaikh, Maaz & Allan Plesniarski.
  Building automatic speech recognition tools for Zangskari using a documentary corpus.
  21st International Association of Ladakh Studies Conference (IALS-21),
  Kargil, Ladakh, India, 29–30 August 2025.
  Slides

2024

• Shaikh, Maaz.
  Transitive vs. intransitive agreement in Azamgarhi perfective constructions.
  International Conference on Tense, Aspect, and Modality in South Asian Languages,
  INALCO, Paris, France, 29–31 October 2024.
  Handout

2023

• Shaikh, Maaz.
  The V-a-V-i compounds in Hindi.
  Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL),
  University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada, 25 November 2023.
  Handout

2019

• Shaikh, Maaz.
  Descriptive phonetics and phonology of Western Sham Ladakhi.
  Two-Day National Conference on Phonetics: Theoretical Underpinnings and Research Explorations,
  English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India,
  19–20 November 2019.

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Invited talks and workshops

2023

• Shaikh, Maaz.
  Echoes from Zangskar: Insights from documenting an isolated language.
  Research 4 Minds (Re4M), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jammu, India,
  6 September 2023.

• Shaikh, Maaz.
  Citizen science for documentation and revitalization of the Zangskari language.
  Government Model Degree College, Padum, Zangskar, Ladakh, India,
  5 August 2023.

2022

• Shaikh, Maaz.
  Five-day training workshop on documentation of Zangskari language.
  Government Model Degree College, Padum, Zangskar, Ladakh, India,
  4–8 August 2022.
  Media coverage

• Shaikh, Maaz.
  Documentation of the Zangskari language.
  Government Model Degree College, Padum, Zangskar, Ladakh, India,
  3 August 2022.
  Media coverage

2021

• Shaikh, Maaz.
  Panelist with Prafulla Basumatary, Kenneth Van Bik, and Marjing Mayanglambam.
  CoRSAL Annual Meeting (CoRSAL V), Virtual,
  1 October 2021.

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Other presentations (non-refereed)

2025

• Shaikh, Maaz.
  Bringing the Zangskari version of the Epic of Gesar to life:
  An AI-generated short movie with multilingual subtitles.
  Digital Humanities Conference (DiHuCon),
  University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 25 March 2025.

2024

• Shaikh, Maaz.
  Acoustic analysis of the Zangskari vowels.
  Generals Paper Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada,
  12 January 2024.
  Slides

2021

• Shaikh, Maaz.
  A preliminary description of the Azamgarhi language.
  For SEL By SEL Virtual Conference,
  Society for Endangered and Lesser-Known Languages (SEL India),
  11 January 2021.
  Slides