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A revised version of my "Gradient Lexical Reflexes of the Syllable Contact Law" paper has been accepted as an alternate paper at CLS 45. There's little chance I'll actually get to present it, but it's an honor just to be nominated. ;)
Summary: the SCL is stated gradiently (but does not make a gradient synchronic prediction). Does such a gradient pattern hold synchronically? In a word, yes. Of course, this word should be taken with a rather large grain of salt.
For about a decade I was one of the morlocks responsible for the University of Michigan's web infrastructure. But now I'm a full-time PhD student in Linguistics working with Steven Abney and Pam Beddor studying, appropriately enough, computational linguistics and phonetics/phonology.
Back when I had leisure time I could be found riding my bicycle long distances in outlandish, stretchy garments. I used to play electric guitar and bodhrán in a band of indeterminate genre. But grad school is hard, parenting is harder, and I have no time for such idle pursuits these days.
My purple house is, for an inanimate object, rather demanding of my time (more so than, say, my aquarium but less so than my daughter).