astronomy

Sally Rice

Sally Rice is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Sally Rice rather than just read about it. In short: Sally Rice is a professor emerita of linguistics at the University of Alberta, where she took up a position soon after earning her PhD in 1987 at the University of California, San Diego, under the supervision of Ronald W. Longacker.

Key takeaways

Sally Rice belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Sally Rice to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Sally Rice from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Sally Rice is a professor emerita of linguistics at the University of Alberta, where she took up a position soon after earning her PhD in 1987 at the University of California, San Diego, under the supervision of Ronald W. Longacker. Rice is known for her scholarship on the indigenous languages of Canada, especially those of the Athabaskan language family. She was one of the founding directors of CILLDI, the Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute, which since 2000 has been an annual tri-Faculty summer institute to provide training in Canadian First Nations languages development.

Awards and distinctions Rice was the Landrex Distinguished Professor in the University of Alberta Faculty of Arts from 2007 to 2011. Rice was a McCalla Research Professor in the University of Alberta Faculty of Arts in 2008–2009. Rice was awarded a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Of Canada (SSHRC) in 1999 for "The Daghida Project: Language Research and Revitalization in a First Nations Community (Cold Lake, Alberta)." Rice was awarded a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Of Canada (SSHRC) in 2003 for "7th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language ." Rice and fellow linguist Joyce McDonough were awarded a grant from the US National Science Foundation in 2009 for "An Interactive Speech Atlas of Dene Speaking Communities in the Mackenzie Basin" (award 0853929).

Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute (CILLDI)

"There are more than 60 Aboriginal languages in Canada. With the exception of Cree, Ojibway and Inuktitut, all Canadian Indigenous languages are endangered, many critically so. Indigenous communities, colleges and universities are working to preserve — and in some cases, restore — these languages, but so far there has been no national initiative dedicated to Indigenous language sustainability in Canada." Sally Rice was part of a collective of language advocates and educators which including Donna Paskemin and Heather Blair, who established CILLDI in 1999 with its first summer institute held on the Onion Lake First Nation, Saskatchewan offering one course entitled "Expanding Cree Language and Literacy". CILLDI, which is hosted at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, is an intensive annual "summer school for Indigenous language activists, speakers, linguists, and teachers." It is a "multicultural, cross-linguistic, interdisciplinary, inter-regional, inter-generational" initiative. Rice is on the CILLDI Advisory Council.

Publications 2011. Newman, John, Sally Rice, and Harald Baayen (eds.). Corpus-Based Studies in Language Use, Language Learning, and Language Documentation. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 2011. Rice, Sally and John Newman (eds.). Experimental and Empirical Methods in the Study of Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language. Stanford: CSLI/University of Chicago Press. 2010. Ives, John W., Sally Rice, and Edward Vajda. "Dene-Yeniseian and processes of deep change in kin terminologies." In Kari, J. and B. Potter (eds.), Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska (APUA), Vol. 6 (1-2): 161–187. Fairbanks: UAF Press. 2007. Rice, Sally and Kaori Kabata. "Cross-linguistic grammaticalization patterns of the ALLATIVE." Linguistic Typology 11: 453–516. 2004. Newman, John and Sally Rice. "Patterns of usage for English SIT, STAND, and LIE: A cognitively-inspired exploration in corpus linguistics." Cognitive Linguistics 15: 351–396. 1999. Rice, Sally. "Patterns of acquisition in the emerging mental lexicon: The case of to and for in English." Brain and Language 68:268-276. 1995. Sandra, Dominiek and Sally Rice. "Network analyses of prepositional meaning: Mirroring whose mind—the linguist’s or the language user’s?" Cognitive Linguistics 6:89-130.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Sally Rice

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Sally Rice claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Sally Rice before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Sally Rice ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Sally Rice

In research: Sally Rice appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Sally Rice in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Sally Rice is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Academic staff of the University of Alberta, Canadian women linguists, Cognitive linguists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Sally Rice outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Sally Rice in 20 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Sally Rice matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Sally Rice?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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