My research interests center on phonology, morphology and their
interaction. Since my 1989 dissertation I have focused on the ways in
which morphology conditions phonology; in recent years this has led to
an exploration of cophonologies, or phonological grammars associated
with individual morphological constructions. This interest, applied to
reduplication, led to my 2005 book, with Cheryl Zoll, called
Reduplication: Doubling in Morphology, published by Cambridge
University Press. Within morphology proper, I have pursued issues of
affix ordering and (in collaboration with students) the question of multiple exponence in morphology. An independent line of research in recent years has been child phonology, as reflected in my 2003 article 'J's rhymes' in
Journal of Child Language and in the 2007 Language article with Yvan Rose. I have also been collaborating with Prof. Kemal Oflazer, of Sabanci University in Istanbul, on computational tools for the analysis of Turkish, building in part on my NSF-funded TELL (Turkish Electronic Living Lexicon) database.
- "The Dual Theory of Reduplication". Linguistics 46:351-402. 2008. [Link to paper]
- "Positional neutralization: a case study from child language," with Yvan Rose. Language 83:707-736. 2007.
- "Is Grammar Dependence Real?," with Cheryl Zoll. Linguistics 45:133-171. 2007.
- "Morphophonemics and the lexicon: a case study from Turkish," with Anne Pycha and Ronald Sprouse. In M. J. Sole, P. Beddor, and M. Ohala (eds.), Experimental Approaches to Phonology. Oxford University Press. 2007.
- "Reduplication." In Keith Brown, ed., Encylopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier: Oxford. 417-419. 2006.
- "Underspecification." In Keith Brown, ed., Encylopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier: Oxford. 224-226. 2006.
- "The architecture and the implementation of a finite state pronunciation lexicon for Turkish", with Kemal Oflazer. Computer Speech and Language. 80-106. 2006. [Link to paper]
- Reduplication: Doubling in Morphology, with Cheryl Zoll. Cambridge University Press. 2005.
- "Velar Fronting Revisited", with Yvan Rose. In Barbara Beachley, Amanda Brown & Fran Conlin (eds.), Proceedings of the 26th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [Link to paper]
- "Morphological doubling theory: evidence for morphological doubling in reduplication." In Bernhard Hurch (ed.) Studies on Reduplication. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [Link to paper]
- "Turkish stress: a review", with C. Orhan Orgun. Phonology 20:139-161. 2003. [Link to paper]
- "J's rhymes: a longitudinal case study of language play." Journal of Child Language 30, 557-581. 2003. [Link to paper]
- 2008: Anne Pycha. Morphological Sources of Phonological Length.
- 2006: David Mortensen. Formal and substantive scales in phonology. [co-chaired with James Matisoff] [Link to dissertation]
- 2006: Mary Paster. Phonological conditions on affixation. [co-chaired with Andrew Garrett] [Link to dissertation]
- 2003: Alan Yu. The phonology and morphology of infixation.
- 2002: Jonathan Barnes. Positional neutralization: a
phonologization approach to typological patterns.
- 2001: Darya Kavitskaya. Compensatory lengthening: phonetics,
phonology and diachrony.
- 2001: Gunnar Hansson. Theoretical and typological issues in
consonant harmony.
- 1996: Cheryl Zoll. Parsing below the segment in a constraint-
based framework.
- 2004: Professor, UC Berkeley
- 1996: Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
- 1992: Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
- 1990: Research Fellow, Miller Institute for Basic Research in
Science, UC Berkeley
- 1989: Assistant Professor, University of Maryland
- 1989: Lecturer, UCLA
- 1989: PhD, Linguistics, Stanford University
- 1984: BA, Mathematics, Pomona College
