Research Interests

• Phonology
• Optimality Theory
• Prosody, metrics
• Greek and Latin linguistics

Courses

Current course information for this faculty member can be found by searching the Carleton Central/Public Schedule by Term and Name.

Courses previously taught

• LING 3002: Phonology I
• LING 2001: Phonetics
• LING 3101: Historical Linguistics
• LING 4001: Phonology II

Recent Publications

“Meter as faithfulness”, to appear in NLLT.

(to appear, 2012) Vowel-zero alternations in Russian prepositions: prosodic constituency and productivity. In Russian Language Studies in North America, ed. by Veronika Makarova. London: Anthem Press.

(2011) Abstract similarities between Greek and Latin dialogue meters. In Frontiers in comparative prosody, ed. by Mihhail Lotman and Maria-Kristiina Lotman. Peter Lang. 275-294.

(2011) Coercion and minimality. The Linguistic Review 28(2): 207-240.

(2009) Meter as faithfulness. Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistic Society 46.

(2008). On shallow and deep minimality. Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 34, Berkeley, CA.

(2006). Constraints on phonological interactions . PhD Thesis, Stanford University. Available on ROA.

(2004). Too many solutions: how prosody and segments interact. Proceedings of CLS 41, Chicago, Illinois.

(2003). Tone-to-stress and stress-to-tone: Ancient Greek accent revisited. Proceedings of BLS 30, Berkeley, California.

(2003). Counterfeeding, Derived Environment Effects, and Comparative Markedness. Theoretical Linguistics 29: 89-99.

(2002). Russian palatalization in Stratal OT. Proceedings of FASL-11, Amherst, Mass.