Selected Publications and Manuscripts

to appear
Frequency biases in phonological variation.Natural Language and Linguisic Theory. (ROA #1098-0810). (With Shigeto Kawahara.)
2011
With Joe Pater. The place of variation in phonological theory. In John Goldsmith, Jason Riggle & Alan Yu, eds. The Handbook of Phonological Theory. 2nd Edition. Oxford: Blackwell. p. 401-434. (ROA #946-0108). [Pre-print version.]
2011
Variation: where laboratory and theoretical phonology meet. In Abigail C. Cohn, Cécile Fougeron, and Marie K. Huffman, eds. Oxford Handbook of Laboratory Phonology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 62-75.
2010
Syllables in speech perception - evidence from perceptual epenthesis. In Charles Cairns & Eric Raimy, eds. Handook of the Syllable. Leiden: E.J. Brill. (pre publication version)
2010
Gradient well-formedness in Harmonic Grammar: Phonological performance as a window on phonological competence. Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan, 14:13-23. (pre publication version)
2010
Phonetically grounded phonology and sound change: the case of Tswana labial plosives. Journal of Phonetics, 38:404-421(With Rigardt Pretorius.) (link)
2009
Grammar is both categorical and gradient. In Steven Parker, ed. Phonological Argumentation: Essays on Evidence and Motivation. London: Equinox. p. 9-42. (ROA #864-0906). [Pre-print version.]
2009
Introduction: phonological models and experimental data. Phonology, 26:1-8.(With René Kager and Joe Pater.)
2009
Phonological variation and lexical frequency. In Anisa Schardl, Martin Walkow, & Muhammad Abdurrahman, eds. NELS 38. Voiume 1. Amherst: GLSA. p. 189-202. ["Short version" and "Long version" available on ROA. Short version is the NELS version. The long version contains a few additional appendices.] (ROA #952-0208)
2009
An integrated gramatical/non-grammatical model of phonological variation. In Young-Se Kang, et al., eds. Current Issues in Linguistic Interfaces. Volume 2. Seoul: Hankookmunhwasa. p. 267-294. (ROA #1033-0609).
2009
Learning lexical indexation. Phonology, 26:109-145. (ROA #1000-1108). [Pre-print version.]
2008
With Joe Pater. Weighted constraints and gradient restrictions on place co-occurrence in Muna and Arabic. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 26:289-337. (ROA #950-0108) [Pre-print version.]
2008
Grammaticality and Ungrammaticality in Phonology. Language, 84(2):218-257. (ROA #945-0108). [Pre-print version.]
2007
With Susan Lin and Rigardt Pretorius. Post-nasal devoicing in Tswana. In Jürgen Trouvain and William J. Barry, eds.  ICPhS XVI.  p. 861-864. (pdf)
2007
Hamza. In Kees Versteegh, Mushira Eid, Alaa Elgibali, Manfred Woidich, and Andrzej Zaborsky, eds. Encyclopedia of the Arabic Language and Linguistics. Volume III. Leiden: E.J. Brill. p. 228-232.(link)
2007
With Daan Wissing. Global and Local Durational Properties in Three Varieties of South African English. The Linguistic Review, 24:263-289 (link)
2006
Variation as accessing "non-optimal" candidates. Phonology, 23(3):337-385. (link)
2005
The OCP in the perception of English. In Sonia Frota, Marina Vigario, Maria Joao Freitas, eds. Prosodies. New York : Mouton de Gruyter. p. 223-245. (pre publication version)
2005
With Joe Pater. Lexically Specific Constraints: Gradience, Learnability, and Perception. In Proceedings of the 3rd Seoul International Conference on Phonology. Seoul: The Phonology-Morphology Circle of Korea. 85-119.
2004
What it Means to be a Loser: Non-Optimal Candidates in Optimality Theory . Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Massachusetts , Amherst . (ROA # 687-0904)
2003
Just how many languages are there? In Makoto Kadowaki & Shigeto Kawahara. (eds.) NELS 36 : Proceedings of 36 th Meeting the North East Linguistic Society . Amherst : GLSA. p. 103-114. (ROA # 624-1003)
2002
Between-language frequency effects in phonological theory, University of Massachusetts , Amherst . (pdf)
2002
OO-Correspondence as cumulativity. In Angela Carpenter, Andries W. Coetzee & Paul de Lacy. (eds.) University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 26: Papers in Optimality Theory II . Amherst : GLSA. p. 27-57. (ROA # 628-1103)
2002
Some mathematical properties of EVAL, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
2001
Nasal-only syllables in Tswana. In Graham Horwood & Se-Kyung Kim. (eds.) RuLing 2: Working Papers of Rutgers University . New Brunswick : Rutgers University . p. 1-20. (pdf)
2001
Sympathy Theory and the set of potential winners, University of Massachusetts , Amherst. (ROA # 623-1003)
2000
Post-nasal neutralization phenomena in Tswana - more on *N... constraints, University of Massachusetts , Amherst. (pdf)
1999
Hebrew and Aramaic segholation and the generality and ordering of phonological rules . Journal of Semitic Studies , 44:215-226.
1999
Metathesis in Tiberian Hebrew - a perspective from Optimality Theory . Theoretical Linguistics , 25:99-131.
1999
Tiberian Hebrew Phonology: Focusing on Consonant Clusters.  
Van Gorcum: Assen, the Netherlands . (Studia Semitica Neerlandica 38.)
1998
The phonology of the two hamza's of Qur'anic Arabic. Theoretical Linguistics , 24:219-244.
1997
Syllabification and epenthesis in Tiberian Hebrew - perspectives from Optimality Theory. Journal for Semitics , 9:87-128.
1996
Die ingeborenheid-hipotese van die TGG en Dooyeweerd se filosofie. Koers, 61(1): 83-102. [Title in English: The innateness hypothesis of transformational generative grammar and the philosophy of Dooyeweerd.]
1996
Predicting epenthesis sites for Tiberian Hebrew. South African Journal of Linguistics , Supplement 33:3-22.
1996
The neutral reduced vowel, vowel epenthesis and segholate formation in Tiberian Hebrew. South African Journal of Linguistics , Supplement 31:5-21.
1996
With Wissing, D.P. Die akoestiese eienskappe van stemlose eksplosiewe van Afrikaans. South African Journal of Linguistics , Supplement 34:63-82. [Title in English: The acoustical properties of the voiceless plosives of Afrikaans.]
1995
Berou en bekering in die prediking van die profete: geïnterpreteer binne die raamwerk van die verbond. In die Skriflig , 29(4): 603-622. [Title in English: Repentance and conversion in the message of the prophets: interpreted within the framework of the covenant.]

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