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Assimilation, antigemination, and contingent optionality: the phonology of monoconsonantal proclitics in Polish (with Bożena Pająk), Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (2010)
Baković (2005) analyzes the avoidance of 'sufficiently similar' adjacent consonants as the interaction of independent...
Complementizers, Faithfulness, and Optionality, Revista Virtual de Estudos da Linguagem - ReVEL (2010)
In this paper I advance a theory of optionality in syntax within OT, using the...
Opacity and ordering, The Handbook of Phonological Theory (2nd ed.), to appear (2010)
The resurgence of research on phonological opacity over the past fifteen years or so has...
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...
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...
Why and how not to counterbleed (with Bożena Pająk), Workshop on Phonological Voicing Variation (2008)
A revised typology of opaque generalisations, Phonology (2007)
This paper is about opaque interactions between phonological processes in the two senses defined by...
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...
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)....
Looks can be deceiving: transparency revisited, Current Perspectives on Phonology Workshop, PhonologyFest (2006)
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...
Front matter and Preface (with Junko Ito and John McCarthy), Wondering at the Natural Fecundity of Things: Essays in Honor of Alan Prince (2006)
Phonological opacity and counterfactual derivation, Approaches to phonological opacity workshop, 29th GLOW Colloquium (2006)
Partial identity avoidance as cooperative interaction, Proceedings of the thirty-third Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 2004) (2006)
Anteriority assimilation in English (with Cynthia Kilpatrick), The First International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (2005)
Antigemination, assimilation, and the determination of identity, Phonology (2005)
Avoidance of adjacent consonants that are 'sufficiently identical' -- that is, identical except for possible...
Laryngeal markedness and the typology of repair (with Colin Wilson), 78th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (2004)
Vowel harmony and stem identity, San Diego Linguistics Papers (2003)
Affix vowels often alternate to agree with stem vowels in a pattern dubbed root-outward harmony....
Cycles, levels, and morphological edge asymmetry, "Where are We Going? Phonology at the Edge" Workshop (2003)
Counterfactual Considerations (in Phonology), Southwest Optimality Theory Workshop (SWOT) 8 (2003)
Conspiracies and morphophonological (a)symmetry, 1st Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP 1) (2003)
On the logic of conditional grounding, Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (2001)
Optionality and ineffability (with Edward Keer), Optimality-Theoretic Syntax (2001)
In this chapter we advance a theory of (true) optionality within the framework of Optimality...
Vowel harmony and cyclicity in Eastern Nilotic, Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Afroasiatic Linguistics (2001)
Vowel harmony in the Eastern Nilotic languages Maasai (Tucker & Mpaayei 1955) and Turkana (Dimmendaal...
Harmony, Dominance and Control (2000)
In this dissertation I argue for a general model of assimilation within Optimality Theory, with...
Nasal place neutralization in Spanish, Proceedings of the 24th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium (2000)
I have two goals in this paper. One is to deconstruct the account of nasal...
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...
Transparency, strict locality, and targeted constraints (with Colin Wilson), Proceedings of the Nineteenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (2000)
Assimilation to the unmarked, Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium (1999)
In this paper I explain how an apparent problem arises when one considers input forms...
Deletion, insertion, and symmetrical identity, Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics (1999)
In the Correspondence Theory of faithfulness as originally proposed by McCarthy & Prince (1995), faithfulness...
Have FAITH in syntax (with Edward Keer), Proceedings of the Sixteenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (1999)
Optimality and inversion in Spanish, Is the Best Good Enough? Optimality and Competition in Syntax (1998)
Quantitative adjustments in Yupik, Proceedings of the Fifteenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (1997)
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...
Geminate shortening in Fula, Theoretical Approaches to African Linguistics (1995)
In this paper I argue for the moraic representation of geminates (McCarthy & Prince 1988,...
Strong onsets and Spanish fortition, Proceedings of the 6th Student Conference in Linguistics (SCIL 6) (1994)
This paper examines the well-known alternation between voiced stops and spirants in Spanish. The alternation...