Assistant Professor

University of Arizona

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Publications & Presentations

Articles

• Variation, multi-level selection and conflicts between phonological and morphological regularities. To appear in James Blevins & Juliette Blevins, (eds.), Analogy in Grammar: Form and Acquisition. Oxford University Press. [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 (to appear) With Juliette Blevins [pdf]
• Feedback and Regularity in the Lexicon. Phonology (2007), vol. 24, p. 147-185. [pdf]
• Exemplar models, evolution and language change. The Linguistic Review (2006), vol. 23, issue 3, p. 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), Volume 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].
• Category competition as an unsupervised driver of category contrast. in preparation. With Ibrahim Fatkullin [pdf].
• 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]

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