Presentations

• Lexical access in Maltese using visual and auditory lexical decision. With Alina Twist. Invited conference talk, L-Ghaqda Internazzjonali tal-Lingwistika Maltija, University of Bremen, Germany. October 19, 2007.
• Lexical access in Semitic: Theoretical and experimental results in Hebrew and Maltese. Invited colloquium talk, Department of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison. March 23, 2007.
• Lexical access in Semitic: Theoretical and experimental results in Hebrew, Arabic, and Maltese. With Alina Twist. Invited colloquium talk, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona. November 20, 2006.
• Conspiracies of Contrast in Paradigm Structure. With Andrew Wedel. Invited talk, University of Victoria, January 25, 2006.
• Bases of affixation in Semitic: Psycholinguistic evidence from Hebrew and Maltese. Invited talk, University of Victoria, January 24, 2006.
• Bases of affixation in Semitic: Psycholinguistic evidence from Hebrew and Maltese. With Alina Twist. LSA Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, January 2006.
• Conspiracies of Contrast in Paradigm Structure. With Andrew Wedel. Old World Conference in Phonology 2, University of Tromsø, Norway. January, 2005.
• A Word-Based Model of Semitic Nonconcatenative Templatic Morphology.” 11th Annual Morphology Meeting. University of Vienna, Austria. 2004.
• Vowels Matter Too: A Word-Based Model of Semitic Morphology. Invited talk, Department of Linguistics, Swarthmore College. October 22, 2004.
• Conspiracies of Contrast. With Andrew Wedel. Invited talk, Cognitive Science Master Seminar, University of Arizona. September 16, 2004.
• A Word-Based Model of Semitic Nonconcatenative Templatic Morphology. Invited colloquium talk, Department of English, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. June 8, 2004.
• Gestural Motor Programs and the Nature of Phonotactic Restrictions: Evidence from Loanword Phonology. With Andrew Wedel. Invited colloquium talk, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona. January 20, 2004.
• Loanword Adaptation Asymmetries in Austronesian and Articulatory Gestural Programs. With Andrew Wedel. AFLA X, University of Hawaii. March 29, 2003.
• Gestural Motor Programs and the Nature of Phonotactic Restrictions: Evidence from Loanword Phonology. With Andrew Wedel. WCCFL XXII, UC San Diego. March 21, 2003.
• A word-based model of Semitic: Universals, psycholinguistics, and the emergence of fixed prosody. Invited keynote talk at annual Linguistics at Santa Cruz [LASC] Conference, UC Santa Cruz, March 8, 2003.
• A word-based model of Semitic: Universals, psycholinguistics, and the emergence of fixed prosody. Invited special talk, University of Chicago, February, 2003.
• Constraining Abstractness in the Lexicon. Invited special talk, University of South Carolina. February, 2003.
• Markedness in Phonology: Past, Present, and Possible Future. Invited special talk, University of Kansas. January, 2003.
• Semitic word structure: Phonological Theory Meets Psycholinguistic Considerations. Invited special talk, University of Kansas. January, 2003.
• A Word-Based Model of Semitic: Universals, Fixed Prosody, and Morphological Structure. Invited special talk, University of Southern California. January, 2003.
• Gestural Motor Programs Account for Asymmetries in Loanword Adaptation Patterns. With Andrew Wedel. LSA Annual Meeting, Atlanta. January 3, 2003
• Loanword phonology in Modern Hebrew. With Dafna Graf. Presented at the Workshop on the integration of foreign words, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Mannheim, Germany. March 1, 2002.
• Neighborhood density and the root-affix distinction. With Andrew Wedel. Presented at the 32nd annual meeting of the Northeastern Linguistics Society [NELS], New York University and the City University of New York. October 22, 2001.
• Fixed prosody and the epiphenomenon of root-and-pattern morphology. Presented at the workshop on root and template morphology, Conference on the Syntax and Semantics of Semitic Languages, University of Southern California. May 6, 2001.
• Templatic effects as fixed prosody: The verbal system in Semitic. Presented at the fifth Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, Universite VII, Paris, June 28, 2000.
• Fixed prosody in Semitic prosodic morphology. Presented at the workshop on prosodic morphology in Semitic languages, Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics, Tel-Aviv University, June 11, 2000.
• Emergent iambs: Stress assignment in Modern Hebrew. With Dafna Graf. Presented at the workshop on prosodic morphology in Semitic languages, Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics, Tel-Aviv University, June 11, 2000.
• Fixed Prosodic Effects in Austronesian: an Optimality-Theoretic Account. Presented at The 7th annual meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association. May 11, 2000.
• Fixed Prosody in the Arabic Verb. Presented at the 14th Arabic Linguistics Symposium. UC Berkeley, March, 2000.
• Maximal Stem Size and Faithfulness in Modern Hebrew. Presented at the Workshop on the Phonological Word, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Marburg, Germany. March 2, 2000.
• Maximal Stem Size and Faithfulness in Modern Hebrew: Nonconcatenative Morphology as Fixed Prosody. Invited talk, Stanford Phonology Workshop.
• Root-and-Pattern Morphology Without Roots or Patterns. Presented at the 30th annual meeting of the Northeastern Linguistics Society [NELS], Rutgers University. October 1999.
• Entropy and Language Structure: Toward an Explanation of Regularity in Creole Grammar. With Andrew Wedel. Presented at the 6th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Stockholm, Sweden. July 1999.
• Evidence for Challenging the Consonantal Root. Invited colloquium talk, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany. June 1999.
• The Inadequacy of the Root: Denominal Verbs in Modern Hebrew and Output-Output Correspondence. Presented at the 18th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics [WCCFL], University of Arizona, Tucson. April 1999.
• Output-Output Correspondence and Modern Hebrew Denominal Verbs: The Inadequacy of the Consonantal Root. Presented at the 1999 Trilateral Phonology Weekend [TREND] conference, Stanford University. March 1999.
• Correspondence relations and denominal verbs in Modern Hebrew. Presented at the 14th Annual meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel. June 1998.
• Denominal verbs in Modern Hebrew. Invited talk, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. May 1998.
• Roots and correspondence: denominal verbs in Modern Hebrew. Presented at the 4th Southwestern Optimality Theory Workshop. University of Arizona. April 1998.
• Opacity in Icelandic: A Sympathy account. With Daniel Karvonen. Presented at the 28th annual meeting of the Northeastern Linguistic Society [NELS], University of Toronto. October 1997.
• VP ellipsis and subject positions in Modern Hebrew. Presented at the 11th annual Linguistics at Santa Cruz Conference. March 1997.