Downloadable papers
Pater, Joe. 2008. Review of Smolensky and Legendre (2006). The Harmonic Mind. To appear in Phonology.
Pater, Joe. 2008. Optimization and Linguistic Typology. Ms., University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Pater, Joe. 2008. Gradient phonotactics in Harmonic Grammar and Optimality Theory Ms, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Pater, Joe. 2008. Gradual learning and convergence. Linguistic Inquiry 39/2. 334-345.
Boersma, Paul and Joe Pater. 2008. Convergence Properties of a Gradual Learning Algorithm for Harmonic Grammar. Ms., University of Amsterdam and University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Coetzee, Andries and Joe Pater. 2008. The place of variation in phonological theory. To appear in John Goldsmith, Jason Riggle, and Alan Yu (eds.), The Handbook of Phonological Theory (2nd ed.). Blackwell.
Coetzee, Andries and Joe Pater. 2008. Weighted constraints and gradient restrictions on place co-occurrence in Muna and Arabic. To appear in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
Lee, Shinsook, and Joe Pater. 2008. Phonological inference and word recognition: Evidence from Korean. Ms, Korea University and University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Potts, Christopher, Joe Pater, Rajesh Bhatt and Michael Becker. 2008. Harmonic Grammar with Linear Programming: From linear systems to linguistic typology Ms, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Pater, Joe. To appear. Morpheme-Specific Phonology: Constraint Indexation and Inconsistency Resolution. In Steve Parker, (ed.) Phonological Argumentation: Essays on Evidence and Motivation. London: Equinox.
Pater, Joe, Rajesh Bhatt and Christopher Potts. 2007. Linguistic Optimization. Ms, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
("Optimization and Linguistic Typology" above is a revised version of much of this.)
Pater, Joe. 2006. The Locus of Exceptionality: Morpheme-Specific Phonology as Constraint Indexation. To appear in UMOP: Papers in Optimality Theory III. ("Morpheme-Specific Phonology" above is a revised version of most of this).
Pater, Joe. 2005. Learning a stratified grammar. In Alejna Brugos, Manuella R. Clark-Cotton, and Seungwan Ha eds. Proceedings of the 29th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 482-492.
Pater, Joe. 2003. Balantak metathesis and theories of possible repair in Optimality Theory. Ms, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Pater, Joe and Jessica Barlow. 2003. Constraint conflict in cluster reduction. Journal of Child Language 30, 487-526.
Pater, Joe. 2002. Form and Substance in Phonological Development. In Line Mikkelson and Chris
Potts, eds. WCCFL 21 Proceedings. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 348-372.
Pater, Joe. 2001. Austronesian nasal substitution revisited. In L. Lombardi, (ed.) Segmental phonology in Optimality Theory: Constraints and Representations. Cambridge University Press. 159-182.
Pater, Joe. 2000. Nonuniformity in English stress: the role of ranked and lexically specific constraints. Phonology 17:2. 237-274.
Pater, Joe. 1999. Austronesian Nasal Substitution and Other NC Effects. In René Kager, Harry van der Hulst, and Wim Zonneveld, eds., The Prosody Morphology Interface. Cambridge University Press. 310-343. [Edited version in J. McCarthy, ed., 2004. Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader. Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell].