Current List of Presentations and Publications by Topic and Year
Comments
welcome!
Biases in
learning morphology and phonology
In preparation
Clamoring for
Blending: Usage-based Harmonic Morphophonology
Forthcoming
What statistics do
learners track? Rules, constraints or schemas in (artificial) grammar learning. In Gries, S. Th., & D. Divjak, eds. Frequency effects in language: Learning and
processing. Mouton de Gruyter.
2012
Minding gaps or
seeking bumps in learning phonotactics? Poster presented at the Linguistic
Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.
2011
Modularity
in the channel: The link between separability of features and learnability of
dependencies between them. ICPhS XVII.
2010
Regularity is overrated: Stochastic competition in the grammar and the primacy of the lexicon. Poster presented at the Conference on Competing Motivations, Leipzig, Germany.
Velar palatalization in Russian and artificial grammar: Constraints on models of morphophonology. Laboratory Phonology, 1(2), 361-393.
Rethinking rule reliability: Why an exceptionless rule can fail. Chicago Linguistic Society, 44(2), 277-291.
Modularity
in the channel: A response to Moreton (2008). Research in Spoken Language Processing
Progress Report 29, 297-305.
Product-oriented vs. source-oriented generalization in miniature artificial languages. Poster presented at Laboratory Phonology 12, Albuquerque, NM.
Humans and models learning palatalization patterns in miniature artificial languages: In support of particular salience of typical product characteristics. Paper presented at the Workshop on Computational Modeling of Sound Pattern Acquisition, Edmonton, Alberta
2009
Network Theory and morphological
productivity in Russian: Experimental evidence from elicited production and
ratings. Saarbruecken: VDM Verlag
Dr. Mueller. ISBN 978-3-639-20842-9. (A version of the M.A. thesis).
The architecture of grammar in
artificial grammar learning: Formal biases in the acquisition of
morphophonology and the nature of the learning task. Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University.
Experimental evidence for product-oriented generalizations. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
2008
Experimental evidence for product-oriented generalizations (or not): Testing the shape of the grammar. Paper presented at High Desert Linguistics Society 8, Albuquerque, NM.
Product-oriented generalization over the (artificial) lexicon. Poster presented at the 6th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Rule reliability and productivity: Velar palatalization in Russian and artificial grammar. Paper presented at Laboratory Phonology XI, Wellington, New Zealand. (Use Powerpoint 2003 or later for best viewing of animations) Winner of Best Paper Presented by a Student award.
Why an exceptionless rule can fail: Rethinking rule reliability.
Paper presented at the 44th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic
Society, Chicago, IL.
2007
Rules and analogy in Russian
loanword adaptation. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Anaheim,
CA.
2006
Popularity does not lead to insensitivity: Evidence contra the Dual
Mechanism Model of morphological productivity. Hoosier Mental Life,
Bloomington, IN.
To Scheme or to rule: Evidence against the Dual Mechanism Model, In Rebecca T. Cover and Yuni Kim, eds. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 193-204. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society.
2005
Productivity of Russian Stem Extensions: Evidence for and a Formalization of Network Theory. M.A. Thesis, Dept. of Linguistics, University of New Mexico, May 2005. Committee: Joan Bybee, Jill Morford, Caroline Smith.
Words as Localist Associative Networks: Empirical Evidence for an
Exemplar Approach to the Mental Lexicon, CLS 41, Chicago, IL
Characteristics of a rule-based default are dissociable: Evidence against the Dual Mechanism Model. In S. Franks, F. Y. Gladney, and M. Tasseva-Kurktchieva, eds. Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 13: The South Carolina Meeting, 136-146. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications. This paper is an earlier version of Chapter 4 of the MA thesis.
2004
Defining attributes of a rule-based default are
dissociable: Evidence against the Dual Mechanism Model, HDLS VI, Albuquerque,
NM.
Linguistic
variation
In preparation
(first author Danielle Barth) Modeling
construction-specific contraction of is, am and are: It’s not all frequency.
Sociolinguistics
de-ranged: On comparing factor groups with different numbers of factors.
In revision
(first author Melissa Redford,
third author Jolynn Cornell-Fabiano) Speech and
language characteristics associated with perceptions of prosodic disorder in
children’s spontaneous speech.
Submitted
(first
author Cynthia Vakareliyska, third author Paul Olejarczuk) An
Anglo-Americanism in Slavic Morphosyntax: Productive [N[N]] Constructions (with
focus on Russian and Bulgarian)
2012
Towards a de-ranged study
of variation. Presentation at GURT 2012: Measured Language.
(first auhor Zhuo Jing-Schmidt) The
apprehensive: Fear as endophoric evidence and its
pragmatics in English, Mandarin, and Russian. Journal of Pragmatics,
44(4), 346-373.
2011
(with Rich Janda) It’s
around here: Residential history and the meaning of ‘Midwest’. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2983-2988.
(with Irina Shport
& Susan Guion Anderson) Comparing weights of
acoustic cues with different numbers of levels. Poster presented at the
161st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, WA. For R script,
click here.
2010
(part of a project on NN across Slavic in collaboration with Cynthia Vakareliyska) Constructional borrowing: English NN compounds in Russian. Paper presented at the 10th Annual Conference of the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association, Providence, RI, October 9-11.
2009
Adversative
conjunction choice in Russian: Semantic and syntactic influences on lexical
selection. Language Variation and
Change, 21(2), 157-173.
2006
Syntactic variation in
Russian: Adversative conjunctions and sentence production. First Conference
of the Slavic Linguistics Society, Bloomington, IN.
2004
Russian buts: Variation in adversative conjunctions, NWAV
33, Ann Arbor, MI.
Frequency effects
2011
(first author
Prakaiwan Vajrabhaya) There is more to
the story: First-mention lengthening in Thai interactive discourse.
ICPhS XVII.
What
words to test? How orthographic rule learning can suffer from testing on
high-frequency words. Paper to be presented at "Exploring boundaries and
applications of corpus linguistics", Tuscaloosa, AL
2010
What is
it I am writing? Lexical frequency effects in spelling Russian prefixes: Uncertainty
and competition in an apparently regular system. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 6(2), 157-215.
Frequency of use leads to automaticity of production: Evidence from repair in conversation. Language and Speech, 53(1), 71-105.
(first
author Prakaiwan Vajrabhaya)
Articulatory
reduction in Thai. Poster presented at CSDL/ESLP 2010, La Jolla, CA, September
16-19.
When can the grammar compete
with lexical retrieval? Word frequency effects in a regular system. Poster
presented at the 7th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon,
Windsor, ON, June 30 – July 3.
2009
(with
Joshua Radicke) Frequency
and the emergence of prefabs: Evidence from monitoring. In R. Corrigan,
E. Moravcsik, H. Ouali,
& K. Wheatley, eds. Formulaic Language. Vol. II: Acquisition,
loss, psychological reality, functional explanations, 499-520. Amsterdam:
John Benjamins. (Typological Studies in Language 83).
2007
Frequency,
neighborhood density, age-of-acquisition, lexicon size, neighborhood density
and speed of processing: Towards a domain-general, single-mechanism account.
In S. Buescher, K. Holley, E. Ashworth, C. Beckner, B. Jones, and C. Shank. Proceedings of the 6th Annual High Desert Linguistics Society
Conference, 121-40. Albuquerque, NM: High Desert Linguistics Society.
Frequency of use leads to automaticity of production: Evidence from repair in conversation. Research on Spoken Language Processing Progress Report No.28, Indiana University Speech Research Lab.
Does high frequency lead to automaticity? A corpus study. Poster presented at the Workshop on Variation, Gradience and Frequency in Phonology, Stanford, CA, July 6-8.
2006
Towards a single-mechanism account of frequency effects. The LACUS Forum 32: Networks, 325-335.
Frequency and
Cohesion: Evidence from repair. High Desert Linguistics Society VII.
Albuquerque, NM.
High token frequency
leads to greater cohesion: Evidence from repair. LACUS 33, Toronto.
Having something common in common is not the same as sharing something special: Evidence from sound similarity judgments. LSA Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM.
2005
LAST: A single-mechanism
account of type and token frequency effects and their relatives. SRL Lab
Talk, Bloomington, IN.
Measuring the relationship of structure to use: Determinants of the extent of recycle in repetition repair. Berkeley Linguistics Society 30, 481-492.
Phonotactics
2011
(first author Lamia Johnston) In the
beginning there were the weird: A phonotactic novelty preference in adult word
learning. ICPhS XVII.
2010
(with Lamia Johnston) Investigating phonotactics, lexical analogy, and sound symbolism using xenolinguistics: A novel word-picture matching paradigm. In Stellan Ohlsson & Richard Catrambone, eds. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2010-2015. Austin, TX: The Cognitive Science Society.
(with Lamia Johnston) Is that a bnik I see? Testing phonotactics using word-picture matching In Antonis Botinis, ed. Proceedings of the 2nd ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics 2010, 77-80. ISCA & The University of Athens.
2004
The role of phonotactics in morphological productivity,
Poster presented at the 4th International Conference on the Mental
Lexicon, Windsor, ON.
The nature of
linguistic constituency
2009
Testing theories of linguistic constituency with configural learning: The case of the English syllable. Language, 85(2), 248-277.
(with
Joshua Radicke) Frequency
and the emergence of prefabs: Evidence from monitoring. In R. Corrigan,
E. Moravcsik, H. Ouali,
& K. Wheatley, eds. Formulaic Language. Vol. II: Acquisition,
loss, psychological reality, functional explanations. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (Typological Studies in Language book series).
The emergent hierarchy: Experimental evidence on the nature of linguistic constituency. UT Austin Linguistics Colloquium, Austin, TX.
2008
(with David Pisoni) The role of phonetic detail in associating phonological units. Poster presented at Laboratory Phonology XI, Wellington, New Zealand.
Learnability of rime-affix vs. body-affix dependencies in English: Introducing a new source of evidence on the nature of constituent structure. Paper presented at the 18th International Congress of Linguists, Seoul, Korea.
Implementing and Testing Theories of Syllable Structure. CUNY Phonology Forum Conference on the Syllable, New York, NY. (poster)
The influence of
syllabic constituency on learning CV-affix vs. VC-affix associations:
Constituency is more than dependency. Linguistic Society of America Annual
Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Constituents can exhibit
partial overlap: Experimental evidence for an exemplar approach to the mental
lexicon. In R. L. Edwards, P. J. Midtlyng, C. L.
Sprague, and K. G. Stensrud, eds. CLS 41: The Panels, 227-242. Chicago:
Chicago Linguistic Society. (written in 2005)
2007
Implementing and Testing Theories of Linguistic Constituency I: English Syllable Structure. Research on Spoken Language Processing Progress Report No.28, Indiana University Speech Research Lab.
2006
Testing psychological
reality of complex units with XOR learning. Fifth International Conference
on the Mental Lexicon, Montreal.
Ways of testing psychological reality of complex units: XOR learning and
unit detection. PhonologyFest, Bloomington, IN.
(invited)
Similarity
2012
(first author Hideko Teruya) Sharing the beginning vs. the end: Spoken word recognition in the visual world paradigm in Japanese. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.
2011
(first
author Hideko Teruya) Sharing the beginning vs. sharing the end: Spoken
word recognition in the visual world paradigm in Japanese. Poster presented at
the 162nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, CA.
Review
of Kibort & Corbett, eds. 2010. Features: Perspectives on a key notion of
linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Studies in Language,
35(1), 217-227.
2006
Sound similarity relations in the mental lexicon: Modeling the lexicon as a complex network. Speech Research Lab Progress Report #27, 133-152.
Frequency, salience, and the nature of sound similarity. Poster presented at Laboratory Phonology 10, Paris.
Having something common in common is not the same as sharing something special: Evidence from sound similarity judgments. LSA Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM.
2004
Measuring phonological similarity of English syllables.
UGA 1.
Phonological similarity
relations: Network organization of the lexicon and phonology, VIII Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en
el Noroeste, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico (Published in the
proceedings of Encuentro).
Statistical
typology
2009
Principal components of sound
systems. Poster presented at ALT VIII, Berkeley, CA.
2008
Principal
components of sound systems: An exercise in multivariate statistical typology.
Indiana University Linguistics
Club Working Papers Online, 08-08.
Sociolinguistics
2006
Sex associations of Russian generics. Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 14, 17-43. (written in 2002, revised
in 2004)
2004
The functions of nicknames in the discourse of
Russian-speaking Internet users (in Russian). 4th International
Congress for Researchers on Russian Language, Moscow, Russia (published in the
conference proceedings as “Funktsii Imjon v Jazyke Russkojazychnyx Pol’zvatelej Interneta”)
Grammatical gender vs. the inferred proportion of males to
females as determinants of sex-specific associations of Russian generics”, 1st
U of Georgia Linguistics Society Graduate Student Conference, Athens, GA
2003
Names in Russian online discussion: Russian-English contact
on the Internet, LASSO XXXII, Edinburg, TX.
Language
as a symbol, a symptom, and an instrument of social change: Post-Soviet Russia,
Social Change Workshop for Graduate Students, Charlottesville, VA.