[2] She was one of the founding directors of CILLDI, the Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute,[3] which since 2000 has been an annual tri-Faculty summer institute to provide training in Canadian First Nations languages development.
With the exception of Cree, Ojibway and Inuktitut, all Canadian Indigenous languages are endangered, many critically so.
"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".
[10][11] 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.
Newman, John, Sally Rice, and Harald Baayen (eds.).
Experimental and Empirical Methods in the Study of Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language.
"Patterns of usage for English SIT, STAND, and LIE: A cognitively-inspired exploration in corpus linguistics."
"Network analyses of prepositional meaning: Mirroring whose mind—the linguist’s or the language user’s?"