Papers
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Papers
(Submitted) The surfeit of the stimulus: Grammatical biases filter lexical statistics in Turkish voicing deneutralization. With Andrew Nevins (Harvard) and Nihan Ketrez (Yale). [paper (via lingbuzz)]
(In preparation) Phonologization of tone/height interactions: A Slovenian perspective. With Peter Jurgec (Tromsø). [paper]
(2007) Tone licensing and categorical alignment in Serbo-Croatian. In Leah Bateman et al. (eds.) University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 32: Papers in Optimality Theory III. Amherst: GLSA, pp. 1–19. [paper]
(2007) OT-Help user guide. In Michael Becker (ed.), University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 36: Papers in Theoretical and Computational Phonology. Amherst: GLSA. With Joe Pater (UMass), pp. 1–12. Also available as ROA 928. [paper]
(2003) Lexical stratification of Hebrew: The disyllabic maximum. In Yehuda Falk (ed.) Proceedings of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics 19. [paper]
(2003) Hebrew Stress: Can't you hear those trochees? In Kaiser and Arunachalam (eds.) Proceedings of PLC 26, 9.1: 45–58. [paper]
Invited talks
(2008) Why and how to use Universal Grammar in learning irregular morphology. Linguistics department, Reed College. [handout]
(2008) What do Hebrew speakers know about irregular patterns? The role of Universal Grammar. The department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin. [handout]
(2007) The role of statistical generalizations in the grammar. Phonology reading group, University of Tromsø. [handout]
(2007) The role of statistical generalizations in the grammar. Linguistics department colloquium, Ben Gurion University. [handout]
(2006) Computational Optimality Theory with finite candidate sets. MIT Phonology Circle. [handout]
(2006) Computational Optimality Theory with finite candidate sets. Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Tel Aviv University. [handout]
Conference presentations and posters
(2008) The role of markedness constraints in learning lexical trends. 82nd meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, IL. [handout]
(2007) Tone/ATR interactions in Slovenian. 7th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL-7) in Leipzig. With Peter Jurgec (Tromsø).
(2007) From the lexicon to a stochastic grammar. 38th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, University of Ottawa. [poster, handout]
(2007) From the lexicon to a stochastic grammar. Workshop on Variation, Gradience and Frequency in Phonology, Stanford Univesity. [poster, handout]
(2007) The role of markedness in Hebrew exceptional plurals. Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics 23, Tel Aviv University. [handout]
(2007) Tone/ATR interactions in Slovenian. Workshop on Segments and Tone, Meertens Institute/Amsterdam University. With Peter Jurgec (Tromsø). [handout]
(2007) When and why to ignore lexical patterns in Turkish obstruent alternations. 81st meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Anaheim, CA. With Andrew Nevins (Harvard) and Nihan Ketrez (Yale). [handout]
(2006) CCamelOT: An implementation of OT-CC's GEN and EVAL in Perl. 80th meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, NM. [handout]
(2003) Lexical stratification of Hebrew: The disyllabic maximum. Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics 19, Ben Gurion University.
(2003) Hebrew Stress: Can't you hear those trochees? Penn Linguistics Collquium 26, University of Pennsylvania.
Workshop presentations
(2008) Learning hidden structure in morphological bases. MUMM 2, a UMass-MIT phonology meeting. [handout]
(2007) Prudent error-driven learning in OT-CC. Northeast Computational Phonology Circle (NECPhon), UMass Amherst. [handout]
(2006) When and why to ignore lexical patterns in Turkish obstruent alternations. Yale Turkish Linguistics Workshop. With Andrew Nevins (Harvard) and Nihan Ketrez (Yale). [handout]
(2006) Tone licensing and categorical alignment in Serbo-Croatian. HUMDRUM, Johns Hopkins University.
(2006) Verum Focus and T-to-Σ movement in English. ECO5 syntax workshop, MIT. [handout]
(2004) The interpretation of boundary tones: Turkish and beyond. Intonation Matters, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
(2004) Lexical exceptions: Putting the grammar to work. HUMDRUM, Rutgers University.