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    Joe Pater

        Associate Professor
        Department of Linguistics
        University of Massachusetts
        Amherst, MA 01003 USA

        Phone: (413) 577-1308
        Fax: (413) 545-2792
        E-mail: pater@linguist.umass.edu
        

 


Interests*

I work on phonology (the sound systems of language) and on the acquisition of phonology. I have two main current projects. The first is a study of phonology and acquisition in variants of Harmonic Grammar (Smolensky and Legendre 2006), which is funded by a faculty research grant from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This project includes the development of computational tools to aid this research, and has involved collaboration with my UMass colleagues Michael Becker, Karen Jesney, Rajesh Bhatt, and Christopher Potts, as well as with Paul Boersma, Andries Coetzee, and Anne-Michelle Tessier. The second ongoing project is a study of gradient phonotactics that combines dictionary-based, experimental and computational methods, which I have been working on with Andries Coetzee and René Kager. I am also very interested in synthesizing derivational and constraint-based phonology, and have recently begun collaborating with John McCarthy on this topic.

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*Academic, of course. To hear some products of my non-academic interests, click here.