Papers
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Syntax-Prosody Interface/Irish
2011. Syntax-prosody interactions in Irish. Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. [dissertation]
2011. Prosodic constraints on syntax-prosody mapping: Evidence from Conamara Irish. Paper presented at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP) 2, McGill University, September 24. [slides]
2011. Recursive phonological phrases in Conamara Irish. In Mary Byram Washburn, Sarah Ouwayda, Chuoying Ouyang, Bin Yin, Canan Ipek, Lisa Marston, and Aaron Walker (eds.) Proceedings of the 28th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. [handout] [paper] [recordings]
2011. The interaction of linearization and prosody: Evidence from pronoun postposing in Irish. In Andrew Carnie (ed.) Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 17-40. (Paper originally presented at Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics, University of Arizona, March 27.) [handout] [paper]
2010. Tonal evidence for prosodic phrasing in Conamara Irish. Paper presented at the sixth Celtic Linguistics Conference, University College Dublin. September 10. [handout]
2010. Recursivity and binarity in prosodic phrasing: Evidence from Conamara Irish. To appear in Seda Kan, Claire Moore-Cantwell, and Robert Staubs (eds.) Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the North-East Linguistic Society. Amherst, MA: GLSA publications. (Paper originally presented at NELS 40, MIT, November 14.) [handout] [paper] [recordings]
To appear. Stress-epenthesis interactions in Harmonic Serialism. In John McCarthy and Joe Pater (eds.) Harmonic Grammar and Harmonic Serialism. Equinox Press. [paper]
2009. Syllabification and stress-epenthesis interactions in Harmonic Serialism. Ms., University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Available on Rutgers Optimality Archive, # 1047. [paper]
Diddly-Infixation
2009. (with Wendell Kimper). What can Ned Flanders tell us about linguistic knowledge? Diddly-infixation and the poverty-of-the-stimulus. Hampshire College Cognitive Science Lunch Talk, Hampshire College. Amherst, MA. February 18. [slides]
2008. (with Wendell Kimper). Reduplication without RED: Evidence from diddly-infixation. In Natasha Abner & Jason Bishop (eds.) Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 150-158. www.lingref.com, document # 1827. [slides]
Blackfoot and Moraic Faithfulness
2007. Moraic faithfulness: Evidence from Blackfoot and English. Paper presented at the 15th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester. Manchester, England: May 26. [handout]
2006. Contrastive syllabification in Blackfoot. In Donald Baumer, David Montero and Michael Scanlon (eds.) Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 141-149. www.lingref.com, document # 1442.
2006. The mora in Blackfoot. MA thesis, University of Calgary. [thesis]
2005. The role of sonority in Blackfoot phonotactics. Calgary Papers in Linguistics 26:27-91. [paper]