Papers
papers | invited talks | conferences | workshops
Papers
(In preparation) Harmonic Grammar with Linear Programming: From linear systems to linguistic typology. With Christopher Potts, Joe Pater and Rajesh Bhatt (UMass Amherst). [paper]
(In preparation) The surfeit of the stimulus: Grammatical biases filter lexical statistics in Turkish voicing deneutralization. With Andrew Nevins (Harvard) and Nihan Ketrez (Yale). [paper (via lingbuzz)]
(In preparation) Interactions of tone and ATR in Slovenian. With Peter Jurgec (Tromsø). [paper]
(2007) Tone licensing and categorical alignment in Serbo-Croatian. In Leah Bateman et al. (eds.) University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 32: Papers in Optimality Theory III. Amherst: GLSA, pp. 1–19. [paper]
(2007) OT-Help user guide. In Michael Becker (ed.), University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 36: Papers in Theoretical and Computational Phonology. Amherst: GLSA. With Joe Pater (UMass), pp. 1–12. Also available as ROA 928. [paper]
(2003) Lexical stratification of Hebrew: The disyllabic maximum. In Yehuda Falk (ed.) Proceedings of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics 19. [paper]
(2003) Hebrew Stress: Can't you hear those trochees? In Kaiser and Arunachalam (eds.) Proceedings of PLC 26, 9.1: 45–58. [paper]
Invited talks
(2008) The role of markedness in generalizing over lexical exceptions. Joint work with Lena Fainleib. Linguistics department, NYU.
(2008) Why and how to use Universal Grammar in learning irregular morphology. Linguistics department, Reed College. [handout]
(2008) What do Hebrew speakers know about irregular patterns? The role of Universal Grammar. The department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin. [handout]
(2007) The role of statistical generalizations in the grammar. Phonology reading group, University of Tromsø. [handout]
(2007) The role of statistical generalizations in the grammar. Linguistics department colloquium, Ben Gurion University. [handout]
(2006) Computational Optimality Theory with finite candidate sets. MIT Phonology Circle. [handout]
(2006) Computational Optimality Theory with finite candidate sets. Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Tel Aviv University. [handout]
Conference presentations and posters
(2009) Surface-based generalizations over lexical exceptions. 83nd meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, CA. With Lena Fainleib (Tel Aviv University).
(2008) The role of markedness constraints in learning lexical trends. 82nd meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, IL. [handout]
(2007) Tone/ATR interactions in Slovenian. 7th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL-7) in Leipzig. With Peter Jurgec (Tromsø).
(2007) From the lexicon to a stochastic grammar. 38th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, University of Ottawa. [poster, handout]
(2007) From the lexicon to a stochastic grammar. Workshop on Variation, Gradience and Frequency in Phonology, Stanford Univesity. [poster, handout]
(2007) The role of markedness in Hebrew exceptional plurals. Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics 23, Tel Aviv University. [handout]
(2007) Tone/ATR interactions in Slovenian. Workshop on Segments and Tone, Meertens Institute/Amsterdam University. With Peter Jurgec (Tromsø). [handout]
(2007) When and why to ignore lexical patterns in Turkish obstruent alternations. 81st meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Anaheim, CA. With Andrew Nevins (Harvard) and Nihan Ketrez (Yale). [handout]
(2006) CCamelOT: An implementation of OT-CC's GEN and EVAL in Perl. 80th meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, NM. [handout]
(2003) Lexical stratification of Hebrew: The disyllabic maximum. Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics 19, Ben Gurion University.
(2003) Hebrew Stress: Can't you hear those trochees? Penn Linguistics Collquium 26, University of Pennsylvania.
Workshop presentations
(2008) Learning hidden structure in morphological bases. MUMM 2, a UMass-MIT phonology meeting. [handout]
(2007) Prudent error-driven learning in OT-CC. Northeast Computational Phonology Circle (NECPhon), UMass Amherst. [handout]
(2006) When and why to ignore lexical patterns in Turkish obstruent alternations. Yale Turkish Linguistics Workshop. With Andrew Nevins (Harvard) and Nihan Ketrez (Yale). [handout]
(2006) Tone licensing and categorical alignment in Serbo-Croatian. HUMDRUM, Johns Hopkins University.
(2006) Verum Focus and T-to-Σ movement in English. ECO5 syntax workshop, MIT. [handout]
(2004) The interpretation of boundary tones: Turkish and beyond. Intonation Matters, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
(2004) Lexical exceptions: Putting the grammar to work. HUMDRUM, Rutgers University.