Kyle Gorman, ABD Department of Linguistics Institute for Research in Cognitive Science University of Pennsylvania

Words are complex objects, and knowledge of a language requires unconscious knowledge of procedures for combining sequences of sounds (phonology) and units of meaning (morphology). I pursue the empirical foundations of this knowledge. My research is informed by best practices in quantitative analysis and draws on evidence from computational models, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, and speech corpora.

My CV

Journal articles:

• Josef Fruehwald and Kyle Gorman (2011). Cross-derivational feeding is epiphenomenal. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 2011:36-50. (Talk video here.)

Book chapters:

• Kyle Gorman and Daniel Ezra Johnson (in press). Quantitative analysis. In Robert Bayley, Richard Cameron, and Ceil Lucas, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Supplemental material here.)

Conference proceedings:

• Kyle Gorman (forthcoming). What phonotactics might not be. To appear in Proceedings of the 47th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. (Slides here, supplemental material here.)
• Kyle Gorman (forthcoming). Latin rhotacism for real. To appear in Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. (Supplemental material here.)
• Kyle Gorman, Jonathan Howell, and Michael Wagner (2011). Prosodylab-Aligner: A tool for forced alignment of laboratory speech. In Proceedings of Acoustics Week in Canada. (More information on the tool here.)
• Kyle Gorman (2010). The consequences of multicollinearity among socioeconomic predictors of negative concord in Philadelphia. In Marielle Lerner, ed., U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 16.2: Selected papers from NWAV 38, 66-75. Philadelphia: Penn Linguistics Club. (An earlier version was given at NWAV 38 at the University of Ottawa.)
• Catherine Lai, Kyle Gorman, Jiahong Yuan, and Mark Liberman (2007). Perception of disfluency: Language differences and listener bias. In Proceedings of Interspeech '07.

Reviews:

• Kyle Gorman (2011). Review of Defective paradigms: Missing forms and what they tell us. LINGUIST List 22.2894.

Technical reports:

• Kyle Gorman (2009). Hierarchical regression for language research. University of Pennsylvania IRCS Technical Report 09-02 (local link here). See Multi-Level Modeling Reading Group @ Penn...

Conference talks/posters (without proceedings):

• Kyle Gorman, David Faber, Elika Bergelson, and Charles Yang (2011). Word vs. rule frequencies in irregular acquisition. Paper presented at the 36th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, and the 2012 LSA meeting in Portland. A manuscript version is now in preparation. (Slides here, poster here.)
• Kyle Gorman (2011). Accidental gaps and English syllable contact. Paper presented at the Mid-Atlantic Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning, Johns Hopkins University and the 2012 LSA meeting in Portland.
• Kyle Gorman (2011). The learning of inflections, and inflectional gaps, from sparse data. Paper presented at the 2011 LSA meeting in Pittsburgh.
• Kyle Gorman and Laurel MacKenzie (2009). A boho in SoHo: Emerging specificity in English templatic hypocoristics. Paper presented at the 2009 LSA meeting in San Francisco. A manuscript version is now in preparation. Some publicity...
• Chandan Narayan, Kyle Gorman, and Daniel Swingley (2008). The acoustics of [voice] in infant-directed speech and implications for phonological learning. Paper presented the 36th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development and the 2008 LSA meeting in Chicago. A manuscript version is currently under revision.
• Kyle Gorman, Jennifer Cole, Mark Hasagewa-Johnson and Margaret Fleck (2007). Automatic detection of turn-taking cues in spontaneous speech based on prosodic factors. Paper presented at the 2007 LSA meeting in Anaheim. Consult my 2006 University of Illinois Bachelor's thesis (link here) for more information.

Volumes edited:

• Kyle Gorman and Laurel MacKenzie, ed. (2010). U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 15.2: Selected Papers from NWAV 37. Philadelphia: Penn Linguistics Club.
• Kyle Gorman, ed. (2008). U. Penn. Working Papers in Linguistics Vol. 14.2: Selected Papers from NWAV 36. Philadelphia: Penn Linguistics Club.

Unpublished manuscripts:

• Kyle Gorman (2009). On VARBRUL -- Or, The Spirit of '74. Ms., University of Pennsylvania. lingBuzz/001080 (local link here). Spontaneous response to NWAV 38 panel on best practices.

Tutorials:

• English phonemic transcription code chart
• Information retrieval and detection theory for linguists
• How to call C functions from Python

Software:

• State-of-the-art pitch extraction with SWIPE'
• Manipulate Praat TextGrids in Python with textgrid.py
• Automated text-speech alignment with Prosodylab-Aligner
• Other projects and snippets in C, R, and Python

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