Articles
Abstractness and motivation in phonological theory, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistic (2009)
Even the most basic work of phonological description and analysis involves some amount of abstraction...
Assimilation, antigemination, and contingent optionality: the phonology of monoconsonantal proclitics in Polish (with Bożena Pająk), Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (2009)
Baković (2005) analyzes the avoidance of 'sufficiently similar' adjacent consonants as the interaction of independent...
A revised typology of opaque generalisations, Phonology (2007)
This paper is about opaque interactions between phonological processes in the two senses defined by...
Antigemination, assimilation, and the determination of identity, Phonology (2005)
Avoidance of adjacent consonants that are 'sufficiently identical' -- that is, identical except for possible...
Review of _The prosody-morphology interface_ (with Edward Keer), Phonology (2000)
This volume consists of a subset of the papers presented at a workshop on Prosodic...
Books
Wondering at the Natural Fecundity of Things: Essays in Honor of Alan Prince (with Junko Ito and John McCarthy) (2006)
This volume honors Alan Prince on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday (June 20, 2006)....
Harmony, Dominance and Control (2000)
In this dissertation I argue for a general model of assimilation within Optimality Theory, with...
Book Chapters
Local blocking and minimal violation, Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (2009)
The Elsewhere Condition (Kiparsky 1973, 1982) blocks a rule B from applying when a more...
Opacity deconstructed, The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, to appear (2009)
The crucial assumption underlying opacity is that phonological processes interact in ways that may obscure...
Hiatus resolution and incomplete identity, Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology (2007)
Potential vowel hiatus between words in Chicano Spanish is always resolved using one of several...
Elsewhere Effects in Optimality Theory, Wondering at the Natural Fecundity of Things: Essays in Honor of Alan Prince (2006)
My goal in this paper is to demonstrate how the basic logic of constraint ranking...
Unpublished Papers
Complementizers, faithfulness, and optionality, Research paper for National Science Foundation Grant #SBR-9511891, “Optimality Theory in Syntax: Universal Constraints and the Lexicon.” (Principal investigator: Jane Grimshaw.) Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (1997)
<p>In this paper I advance a theory of optionality in syntax within OT, using the...
Foot harmony and quantitative adjustments, Second qualifying paper, Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (1996)
Foot structure can affect syllable weight, as is well known from the analysis of minimal...
A markedness subhierarchy in syntax: optimality and inversion in Spanish, First qualifying paper, Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (1995)
In this paper, inversion (verb-subject word order, seen as head movement) in Spanish wh-questions is...