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 three main current projects. The first is a study of phonology and acquisition using numerically weighted constraints, which is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. 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 Rene Kager. The third project is the synthesis of derivational and constraint-based phonology, a topic on which I am collaborating with John McCarthy and other members of our NSF-funded project.
Curriculum Vitae
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*Academic, of course. To hear some products of my non-academic interests, click here.