Claire Moore-Cantwell

cmooreca at linguist dot umass dot edu


Third-year PhD student
Department of Linguistics, UMass Amherst


Research interests:
  • Phonology
  • Metrics
  • (Un)productivity of unnatural or difficult-to-analyze patterns
  • Semitic languages, especially non-concatenative morphology
  • Phonetics
Papers and Presentations:
Bruce Hayes and __. 2011. Gerard Manley Hopkins's sprung rhythm: corpus study and stochatic grammar.  Phonology 28:235–282.
2011. Over- and Under-generalization in Derivational Morphology. Poster presented at the workshop on 'Testing Models of Phonetics and Phonology', Boulder, CO. 13 July.
2011. Contexts for Epenthesis in Harmonic Serialism. Paper presented at the 19th Manchester Phonology Meeting.  (Handout)
2009. Denominal Verb Formation in Modern Hebrew : A Case of Underlearning. Paper presented at the UMass MIT Meeting (of Phonologists), and BA thesis, UCLA  (PDF | Handout)

Manuscripts:
2009. Gerard Manley Hopkins' Diacritics: a Corpus-Based Study. ms. UCLA  (PDF)
2008. Samoan Thematic Consonants and the -Cia suffix. ms. UCLA  (PDF)
CV: (here)

Some Useful Links:
GLSA Publications
UCLA Linguistics
BLing , or the Society of Bruin Linguists

Claire
                Moore-Cantwell