When I have my druthers, I’m working on Irish or one of the K’ichean-branch Mayan languages.
My ORCID#: 0000-0001-6160-7007
Submitted
- Prosody, focus, and ellipsis in Irish [abstract]
(with Emily Elfner and Jim McCloskey)[ Draft submitted, comments welcome! ]
- Prosodic smothering in Macedonian and Kaqchikel [abstract]
(with Boris Harizanov and Robert Henderson)[ Draft submitted, comments welcome! ]
Accepted, to appear, or in press
- An ultrasound study of Connemara Irish palatalization and velarization [abstract]
(with Grant McGuire, Máire Ní Chiosáin and Jaye Padgett)[ Draft accepted at JIPA pending minor revisions, comments welcome! ]
- Output optimization in the Irish plural system [abstract]
[ Pre-publication version, to appear in Journal of Linguistics ]
- La tensión vocálica en el kaqchikel de Sololá, Guatemala: un estudio preliminar (in Spanish) [abstract]
[ Pre-publication version, to appear in Las Actas del Seminario Phonologica, published by Colégio de México ]
Published in 2016
- Lightest to the right: an anomalous displacement In Irish [abstract]
(with Emily Elfner and Jim McCloskey)[ Published in Linguistic Inquiry 47(2); pre-publication version available here ]
- Mayan phonology [abstract]
[ Published in Language and Linguistics Compass 10(10); pre-publication version available here ]
- Introduction to Mayan linguistics [abstract]
(with Jessica Coon and Robert Henderson)[ Published in Language and Linguistics Compass 10(10); pre-publication version available here ]
Published in 2015
- Pronouns and prosody in Irish [abstract]
(with Emily Elfner and Jim McCloskey)[ Published in Selected Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Celtic Studies; local PDF available here ]
- Review of Prosodic Typology II
[ Published in Phonology 32(2); pre-publication version available here ]
Published in 2014
- Foot structure and analytic bias [abstract]
[ Published in Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 7, local PDF available here ]
- A pilot study on the acoustics of stress and tone in Uspanteko
(with Robert Henderson)
Published in 2013
- The uniqueness of metrical structure: rhythmic phonotactics in Huariapano [abstract]
[ Published in Phonology 30(3); local PDF available here ]
- Accent in Uspanteko [abstract]
(with Robert Henderson)[ Published in NLLT 31(3); local PDF available here ]
- A re-evaluation of ‘disjoint’ footing
A handout summarizing my take on stress and [h]-epenthesis in Huariapano (Ch. 2 of my dissertation, revised as Bennett 2013). Includes some empirical extensions to Eastern Mari and Tübatulabal that aren’t available elsewhere.
[ Large handout ]
Published in 2012
- Foot-conditioned phonotactics and prosodic constituency [abstract]
[ Dissertation, written at UC Santa Cruz ]
Varia pre-2012
- Contrast and laryngeal states in Tz’utujil [abstract]
[ Paper and handout en español; published in The UCSC Linguistics Research Center 2010 Laboratory Report ]
- Donegal Irish and the Syntax/Prosody Interface [ Handout ]