Conference Handouts
(2009). (Non-)adjacency in harmony systems. Handout of paper presented at the 45th meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago, April 18, 2009. [pdf]
(2009). Similarity-sensitive blocking and transparency in Menominee. Handout of paper presented at the annual meeting of the LSA, San Francisco, CA, January 9, 2009. [pdf]
(2008). Gradualness and fell-swoop derivations. Handout of paper presented at the UCSC Graduate Alumni Conference, University of California, Santa Cruz, September 13, 2008. [pdf]
(2006) with Dani Byrd, Fidèle Mpiranya, Sungbok Lee, and Celeste DeFreitas. The articulation of consonants in Kinyarwanda's sibilant harmony. Handout of poster presented at the meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 2, 2006. [pdf](2006) Long distance metaphony: A Generalized Licensing proposal. Handout of paper presented at PhonologyFest Workshop, Indiana University, Bloomington, June 23, 2006. [pdf]
(2006) with Toby Mintz. Infant's sensitivity to vowel harmony and its role in word segmentation. Handout of paper presented at the annual meeting of the LSA, Albuquerque, NM, January 7, 2006. [pdf]
(2005) with Fidèle Mpiranya. Sibilant harmony in Kinyarwanda and coronal opacity. Handout of paper presented at GLOW 28, University of Geneva, March 31, 2005. [pdf]
(2003) Directionality and prosodic asymmetries in Servigliano Italian vowel copy. Handout of paper presented at the USC Phonology Workshop, Where are We Going? Phonology at the Edge. University of Southern California, November 14, 2003. [pdf]
Books
(2000) Nasalization, Neutral Segments and Opacity Effects. New York: Garland.
Journal Articles
(2008) with Dani Byrd and Fidèle Mpiranya. An articulatory view of Kinyarwanda coronal harmony. Phonology 25, 499-535. © 2009 Cambridge University Press. [pdf]. Link to Phonology at Cambridge Journals Online
(2007) Nasal and oral consonant similarity: Exploring parallels with long-distance nasal agreement. Language and Cognitive Processes 22.7, 1-41.(2005) Weak triggers in vowel harmony. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 23, 917-989. [pre-publication version pdf]
(2004) with Sharon Rose. A typology of consonant agreement as correspondence. Language 80, 475-531. [pre-publication version [pdf]]
(2001) Round licensing, harmony, and bisyllabic triggers in Altaic. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 19, 827-878.
(2000) Nasal reduplication in Mbe affixation. Phonology 17, 65-115. [pdf]. Link to Phonology at Cambridge Journals Online
(1999) Guaraní voiceless stops in oral versus nasal contexts: an acoustical study. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 29.1, 63-94.
(1999) with Geoffrey K. Pullum. Possible and impossible segments. Language 75.4, 764-780.
Book Chapters
(To appear) with Sharon Rose. Harmony systems. Handbook of Phonological Theory, Second Edition, ed. by John Goldsmith, Jason Riggle, and Alan Yu. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
(2003) Reinterpreting transparency in nasal harmony. The Phonological Spectrum, Part I: Segmental Structure, ed. by Jeroen van de Weijer, Vincent van Heuven, and Harry van der Hulst. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, No. 233.) pp. 37-72. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [pdf]
(1996) with Michael M. Cohen and Dominic W. Massaro. Perception of synthetic visible speech. Speechreading by Humans and Machines: Models, Systems, and Applications, ed. by David G. Stork and Marcus E. Hennecke, NATO Advanced Study Institute Series, Series F: Computer and Systems Sciences 150. pp. 153-168. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Papers in Conference Proceedings, Working Papers and Electronic Archives
(2006) with Fidèle Mpiranya. On triggers and opacity in coronal harmony. Proceedings of BLS 31 (February 2005), ed. by Rebecca T. Cover and Yuni Kim, pp. 383-394. [pdf]
(2004) Vowel feature licensing at a distance: Evidence from Northern Spanish language varieties. Proceedings of WCCFL 23, ed. by Vineeta Chand, Ann Kelleher, Angelo J. Rodríguez, and Benjamin Schmeiser, pp. 787-800. [pdf]
(2004) with Bella Feng. A ternary model of morphology-phonology correspondence. Proceedings of WCCFL 23, ed. by Vineeta Chand, Ann Kelleher, Angelo J. Rodríguez, and Benjamin Schmeiser, pp. 773-786. [pdf]
(2002) Yuhup prosodic morphology and a case of augmentation. Proceedings of NELS 32, ed. by Mako Hirotani, pp. 551-562. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. GLSA. [pdf]
(2002) with Narineh Hacopian and Mariko Taki. Nasal consonant speech errors: Implications for ‘similarity’ and nasal harmony at a distance. Collected Papers: First Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics, Mexican Institute of Acoustics. [pdf]
(2001) Positional markedness in vowel harmony. Proceedings of HILP 5. Linguistics in Potsdam, Vol. 12, ed. by Caroline Fery, Antony Dubach Green and Ruben van de Vijver, pp. 212-232. University of Potsdam. [pdf]
(2000) Long-distance consonantal identity effects. Proceedings of WCCFL 19, ed. by Roger Billerey and Brook Lillehaugen, pp. 532-545. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [pdf]
(2000) Yaka nasal harmony: Spreading or segmental correspondence? Proceedings of BLS 26, ed. by Lisa J. Conathan, Jeff Good, Darya Kavitskaya, Alyssa B. Wulf, and Alan. C. L. Yu, pp. 321-332. Berkeley Linguistics Society. [pdf]
(1997) Mongolian stress, licensing, and factorial typology. Rutgers Optimality Archive; ROA-171-0197. [pdf]
(1996) A third parameter for unbounded stress. Proceedings of NELS 26, ed. by Kiyomi Kusumoto, pp. 441-455. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, GLSA.
(1995) Hierarchical opacity effects in nasal harmony. Proceedings of ESCOL 11, ed. by Janet Fuller, Ho Han, and David Parkinson, pp. 318-329. Ithaca, NY: DMLL Publications.
(1993) A feature hierarchy for contrastive specification. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, ed. by Carrie Dyck. 12.2, 179-197.
ROA papers can be downloaded from the Rutgers Optimality Archive (see link below).
Link to the Rutgers Optimality Archive