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| 1990-1992 | Ph.D. (Linguistics). University of California, Berkeley. Dissertation: Theoretical aspects of Kashaya phonology and morphology. |
| 1989-1990 | C.Phil. (Linguistics). University of California, Berkeley. Passed with distinction. |
| 1989 | Linguistic Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson. |
| 1988-1989 | University of California, Los Angeles. Intercampus Exchange Program. |
| 1986-1988 | M.A. (Linguistics). University of California, Berkeley. Passed with distinction. |
| 1982-1986 | B.A. (Linguistics, minor in French). Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon. Oral exam passed with distinction. Summa cum laude. |
| Fall 1998 - present | Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania. |
| Fall 1992 - Spring 1998 | Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania. |
| Spring 1992 | Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Cornell University. |
| To appear |
Phonetics and phonology in Gallo-Romance palatalization. Transactions of the Philological Society. |
| 2007 | Vowel-sonorant metathesis in Alsea. International Journal of American Linguistics 73, 1-39. |
| 2005 | (with Amanda Seidl) On the learning of arbitrary phonological rules. Language Learning and Development 1(3&4), 289-316. |
| 2003 | Children's unnatural phonology. Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 29, ed. Pawel Nowak and Corey Yoquelet, 523-534. |
| 2003 | Emergent vowels in Tigrinya templates. Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II (Selected Papers from the Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, Paris, 2000), ed. Jacqueline Lecarme, pp. 105-125. John Benjamins. |
| 2001 | Prosodic word structure in Kashaya reduplication. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 7.2, 27-37. |
| 2000 | Explaining Kashaya infixation. Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 23, 14-25. |
| 2000 | Alignment and weight in the Tigrinya verb stem. Advances in African linguistics. (Trends in African linguistics, 4), ed. Vicki Carstens and Frederick Parkinson. Africa World Press, 165-176. |
| 2000 | On the naturalness of unnatural rules. Proceedings from the Second Workshop on American Indigenous Languages. UCSB Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 9 |
| 2000 | Final extrametricality in Latin and Manam. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 6, 269-277. |
| 1999 | Uniformity in extended paradigms. In The Derivational Residue in Phonological Optimality Theory (LA 28), ed. by Ben Hermans and Marc van Oostendorp. Benjamins, pp. 81-104. |
| 1998 | Integrity and correspondence in Manam double reduplication. Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society 28, vol. 1, pp. 59-67. |
| 1998 | Iambic lengthening and final vowels. International Journal of American Linguistics 64.3, 179-223. |
| 1998 | Alignment in Manam stress. Linguistic Inquiry 29.3, 475-496. |
| 1997 | Against vowel length in Tigrinya. Studies in African Linguistics 26.1, 63-102. |
| 1997 | Tigrinya root consonants and the OCP. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 4.3, 19-51. |
| 1997 | Optimal iambs in Kashaya. Rivista di Linguistica 9, 1-44. |
| 1996 | Bare root nodes in Basaa. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 2, 27-38. |
| 1996 | Constraint domains in Kashaya. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. CSLI, Stanford University, pp. 47-61. |
| 1996 | Levels vs. domains: the case of Kashaya vowel length. Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 22, 36-45. |
| 1994 | Prespecification of default features: the two /i/'s of Kashaya. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, pp. 17-30. Graduate Linguistics Student Association, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. |
| 1994 | Tigrinya vowel features and vowel coalescence. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 1, 1-28. |
| 1994 | Persistent and cumulative extrametricality in Kashaya. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 12, 423-464. |
| 1994 | Theoretical aspects of Kashaya phonology and morphology. Revised dissertation. Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University. |
| 1992 | Kashaya laryngeal increments, contour segments, and the moraic tier. Linguistic Inquiry 23, 487-496. |
| 1991 | Kashaya closed-syllable shortening and prosodic syllabification. Proceedings of the Tenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, pp. 65-74. |
| 1991 | Low-tone spreading in Chalcatongo Mixtec. Occasional Papers on Linguistics 16, 168-172. Dept. of Linguistics, University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale. |
| 1990 | Glottalized and aspirated sonorants in Kashaya. James E. Redden (ed), Occasional Papers on Linguistics (Papers from the 1990 Hokan-Penutian Languages Workshop), pp. 75-91. Dept. of Linguistics, University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale. |
| 1990 | Edge-in association and OCP 'violations' in Tigrinya. Proceedings of the Ninth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, pp. 75-90. |
| 1989 | The structure of the Alsea verb root. Scott DeLancey (ed), Papers from the 1989 Hokan-Penutian Languages Workshop. University of Oregon Papers in Linguistics 2, 1-17. |
| 1989 | The Alsea noun phrase. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics: Studies in Native American Languages V, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 20-36. |
| 1988 | Reconstructing the sounds of Alsea. Scott DeLancey (ed), Papers from the 1988 Hokan-Penutian Languages Workshop. University of Oregon Papers in Linguistics: Publications of the Center for Amerindian Linguistics and Ethnography 1, 9-30. |
| 1988 | Temporal boundaries in Alsea. Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 14, 10-22. |
| 1987 | Coast Oregon Penutian: a lexical comparison. Scott DeLancey and Russell S. Tomlin (eds), Proceedings of the Third Annual Pacific Linguistics Conference, pp. 43-69. Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon. |
| 1987 | Ergativity in Alsea. James E. Redden (ed), Occasional Papers on Linguistics 14, 28-38 (Papers from the 1987 Hokan-Penutian Languages Workshop and Friends of Uto-Aztecan Workshop). Department of Linguistics, University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale. |
| 2006 | Review of Jacques Durand and Bernard Laks (eds.), Phonetics, Phonology, and Cognition. Language 82, 653-657. |
| 2004 | Book notice: Degif Petros Banksira, Sound Mutations: The Morphophonology of Chaha. Language 80, 613-614. |
| 2002 | Review of Phonological Theory: The Essential Readings, ed. John Goldsmith. General Lingustics 39, 160-162. |
| 1997 | Review of A Generative Theory of Rhyme: An Optimality Approach, by Astrid Holtman. Glot International 2.9, 13-16. |
| 1995 | Review of A Theory of Syllabification and Segmental Alternation, by Roland Noske. International Journal of American Linguistics 39, 160-162. |
| 2006 | Simplicity and explanation in metrical typology. Fourth North American Phonology Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, May 12-14. [slides, handout] |
| 2006 | Syllabic writing and syllable structure. Linguistics colloquium, State University of New York at Stony Brook, April 21. [handout] |
| 2000 | What should phonology explain? Linguistics colloquium, State University of New York at Buffalo, March 17. |
| 1998 | Licensing by the initial foot. Linguistics colloquium, University of California at San Diego, May 18. |
| 1997 | The initial foot in Kashaya: Licensing as Coincidence. Linguistics Colloquium, University of Delaware, April 25. |
| 1996 | Motivating constraint domains. Linguistics colloquium, New York University, March 1. |
| 1995 | Cyclicity and correspondence. Linguistics colloquium, University of Maryland, College Park, November 10. |
| 1994 | Comparative Penutian Workshop. University of Oregon, June 26-July 7. |
| 1994 | Manam stress and optimality. Linguistics colloquium, Rutgers University, February 3. |
| 1993 | Manam stress and metrical theory. Linguistics colloquium, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 15. |
| 1992 | Kashaya and the theory of extrametricality. University of Pennsylvania, February 6; University of California at Irvine, February 17; Cornell University, February 20. |
| 1991 | On the economy of constraint-triggered rules. Berkeley Phonology Workshop, October 22. |
| 1990 | Cumulative and persistent extrametricality in Kashaya. Stanford Phonology Workshop, November 29. |
| 2008 | Alsea reduplication and phonological opacity. Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Chicago, January 3-6. |
| 2008 | Monosyllabicity and the origins of syllabaries. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, January 3-6. |
| 2007 | Velar fronting in Alsea. Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Anaheim, January 4-7. |
| 2007 | (with Amanda Seidl and Alejandrina Cristià ) Complexity trumps naturalness. Workshop: Towards an Artificial Grammar Learning Paradigm in Phonology. Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Anaheim, January 4-7. |
| 2005 | Alsea diminutive formation. Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Oakland, CA, January 6-9. |
| 2004 | (with Amanda Seidl) Learning unnatural phonotactics. Third North American Phonology Conference, Concordia University, Montréal, May 20-23. |
| 2004 | The origin of a crazy rule: [du] in the Southern Pomoan Group. Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Boston, January 8-11. |
| 2003 | (with Maciej Baranowski) Lexicalization and analogy in Polish o-Raising. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Atlanta, January 2-5. [download overheads] |
| 2002 | Rule naturalness and the acquisition of phonology. North American Phonology Conference 2, Concordia University, Montréal, April 25-28. |
| 2002 | Alsea metathesis and syllable structure. Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, San Francisco, CA, January 4-7. |
| 2001 | Polish o-Raising and phonological explanation. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington DC, January 4-7. |
| 2000 | The phonetic origin and phonological extension of Gallo-Roman palatalization. North American Phonology Conference 1, Concordia University, Montréal, April 28-30. |
| 1998 | Prosodic word structure in Kashaya reduplication. Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas. New York, January 8-11. |
| 1997 | Best Foot Forward: The initial foot in Kashaya. Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Cornell University, July 5-6. |
| 1997 | Kashaya infixation and constraints on features. Hopkins Optimality Theory Workshop / Maryland Mayfest. Baltimore, May 9-12. |
| 1995 | Cyclicity and correspondence. Tilburg University Conference on the Derivational Residue in Phonology. Tilburg, Holland, October 5-7. |
| 1995 | Constraint domains in Optimality Theory. Generative Linguists of the Old World, Workshop on Constraints in Phonology. Tromso, Norway, June 3. |
| 1993 | Tigrinya root consonants and the OCP. Penn Linguistics Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania, February 20-21; Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Ohio State University, July 23-25. |
| 1992 | On the sonority of glottalized sonorants. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Philadelphia, January 9-12. |
| 1991 | Alsea clitic compounds. Workshop on Clitics: One hundred years of Wackernagel's Law. University of California, Santa Cruz, July 17. |
| 1988 | Second-position clitics in Alsea noun phrases. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. New Orleans, December 27-30. |
| 1987 | Second-position clitics in Alsea. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. San Francisco, December 27-30. |