Below are some selected academic publications and works. Some are not open access (unfortunately), but I can email you a copy if you contact me.

Henke, Ryan E. (2025). Frequency, perceptual salience, and semantic complexity: The acquisition of possessor inflection in Northern East Cree. Journal of Child Language 52(4), 861–891 and A1–A5.
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Skilton, Amalia, Ryan E. Henke, and Melvatha R. Chee (Eds.). (2025). Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication 30: Bridging Child Language Research to Practice for Indigenous Language Revitalization. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press.
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Henke, Ryan E. (2025). Properties of verbs in Northern East Cree child-directed speech: Insights for language science and revitalization. In Amalia Skilton, Ryan E. Henke, and Melvatha R. Chee (Eds.), Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication 30: Bridging Child Language Research to Practice for Indigenous Language Revitalization, pp. 63–88. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press.
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Shin, Naomi, Kari A. B. Chew, Ryan E. Henke, Melanie Kirk-Lente, Akasha L. Khalsa, Kendal Jacobson, Carlos Irizarry-Pérez, Shanley E. M. Allen, & Melvatha R. Chee. (2025). Child language development: Questions and answers for Indigenous language nests. In Amalia Skilton, Ryan E. Henke, and Melvatha R. Chee (Eds.), Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication 30: Bridging Child Language Research to Practice for Indigenous Language Revitalization, pp. 145–185. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press.
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Deen, Kamil, Anupama Reddy, Anna Belew, Peter Chong, Keiko Hata, Kavon Hooshiar, Ryan Henke, Grant Muāgututi‘a, Anongnard Nusartlert, Jennifer Sou, & Sarah Uno. (2025). Presenting the Tool for Assessing Intergenerational Transmission (TITA) within endangered language communities. In Aditya Yedetore, Rebecca Dufie Bonney, and Yuanyuan Zhang (Eds.), BUCLD 49: Proceedings of the 49th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, pp. 185–198. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
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Henke, Ryan E., Julie Brittain, Kamil U. Deen, & Sara Acton. (2024). The acquisition of the passive voice in Northern East Cree. First Language 44(1), 44-73 and A1–A9.
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Chee, Melvatha R., & Ryan E. Henke. (2024). Child and child-directed speech in North American languages. In Carmen Dagostino, Marianne Mithun, and Keren Rice (Eds.), The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America A Comprehensive Guide, Vol. 2, pp. 741–766. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton
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Henke, Ryan E. (2024). Patterns in the acquisition of Northern East Cree relational verbs. In Tamera C. Yazzie, Bethany G. Lycan, Alec J. Goldberg, Kayleigh L. Russell, & Melvatha R. Chee (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2024 Child Language Acquisition Symposium for Indigenous Communities (CLASIC), pp. 44–55. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico
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Henke, Ryan E. (2023). Rules and exceptions: A Tolerance Principle account of the possessive suffix in Northern East Cree. Journal of Child Language 50(5), 1119–1154 and A1–A12.
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Henke, Ryan E., & Julie Brittain. (2022). Obviative demonstratives in Northern East Cree: Insights from child-directed speech. International Journal of American Linguistics 88(1), 53–93. ©2022 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Published by The University of Chicago Press. (doi.org/10.1086/717057)
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Henke, Ryan E. (2022). What about broader impacts for child language acquisition research? A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022). First Language (Special Issue: How Diverse Is Child Language Acquisition Research), 42(6), 774–778.
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Henke, Ryan E. (2021). The acquisition of obviation in Northern East Cree: Evidence from possessive constructions. In Monica Macaulay & Margaret Noodin (Eds.), Papers of the Fiftieth Algonquian Conference, pp. 113–134. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. (book site)
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Henke, Ryan E. (2020). The first language acquisition of nominal inflection in Northern East Cree: Possessives and nouns*. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
*winner of the Mary R. Haas Book Award from the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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Henke, Ryan E. (2019). The development of possession in the L1 acquisition of Northern East Cree. Journal of Child Language 46, 980–997.
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Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L., & Ryan E. Henke. (2018). Language archiving. In Kenneth Rehg and Lyle Campbell (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages, pp. 347–369. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Henke, Ryan E., & Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker. (2016). A brief history of archiving in language documentation, with an annotated bibliography. Language Documentation & Conservation 10, 411–457.
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