Articles

• Functional load and the lexicon: Evidence that syntactic category and frequency relationships in minimal lemma pairs predict the loss of phoneme contrasts in language change (pre-publication version). Language and Speech (under revision) [pdf]
• High functional load inhibits phonological contrast loss: A corpus study (pre-publication version). Cognition (under revision) [pdf]
• Lexical contrast maintenance and the organization of sublexical contrast systems (pre-publication version). Language and Cognition, (in press) [pdf]
• Self-Organization in Phonology. (2011) In M. van Oostendorp, C. Ewan, E. Hume and K. Rice, eds., The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, Vol. 1, pp. 130-147. [pdf]
• Variation, multi-level selection and conflicts between phonological and morphological regularities. (2009) In James Blevins & Juliette Blevins, (eds.), Analogy in Grammar: Form and Acquisition. Oxford University Press. 83-100. [pdf]
• Lexical Access, Effective Contrast and Patterns in the Lexicon. To appear in Paul Boersma & Silke Hamman, (eds.), Perception in Phonology. Mouton de Gruyter. With Adam Ussishkin [pdf]
• Inhibited Sound Change: An evolutionary approach to lexical competition. Diachronica (2009), 26: 143-183 With Juliette Blevins [pdf]
• Feedback and Regularity in the Lexicon. Phonology (2007), 24: 147-185. [pdf]
• Exemplar models, evolution and language change. The Linguistic Review (2006), 23: 247-274. [pdf]
• Category competition drives contrast maintenance within an exemplar-based production/perception loop. In Goldsmith, J. & Wicentowski, R., (eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Phonology (2004), 7: 1-10. [pdf]
• Self-Organization and Categorical Behavior in Phonology. Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2003), 29: 611-622. [pdf]

Work in progress

• Modeling simultaneous convergence and divergence of linguistic features between differently-identifying groups in contact. in preparation. With Heather Van Volkinburg [pdf].
• Draft of a chapter on "Self-organization" for the upcoming Companion to Phonology. Best viewed with Safari; Firefox and Internet Explorer work, but may throw a java error. Comments welcome.
• Usage vs Acquisition in Language Change. Talk given at the Workshop on Language as a Complex System, University of Arizona (2008) With Clay Beckner [ppt].

Dissertation

• Self-Organization and Categorical Behavior in Phonology. PhD dissertation, UC Santa Cruz. (2004) [pdf]

Conference Proceedings

• Gestural Motor Programs and the Nature of Phonotactic Restrictions: Evidence from Loanword Phonology. Proceedings of the West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) XXII, UC San Diego. (2003) With Adam Ussishkin [pdf]
• Neighborhood Density and the Root-Affix Distinction. In M. Hirotani, ed., Proceedings of the Northeastern Linguistics Society [NELS] (2002) 32:539-549. With Adam Ussishkin [pdf]
• Contrast Preservation in Turkish Emphatic ReduplicationIn Ussishkin, A., Herrick, D., Kurisu, K., and Sanders, N., (eds.), Phonology at Santa Cruz [PASC](1999) 6: 83-94. [pdf]