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I am interested in the interaction of internal and external factors on language learning, production and processing, and how that interaction shapes trajectories of sound system change over time. As a model system, I focus on biases exerted by the lexicon on the phonological system.VOSviewer
Courses
- IPIntroduction to Phonology
- LTLinguistic Typology
- ILIntroduction to Linguistics
- PPhonetics
- PPPhonological Phonetics
- FPTIIFoundations of Phonological Theory II
- TUTypology and Universals
- FPTIFoundations of Phonological Theory I
Grants
- ToMCAT: Theory of Mind-based Cognitive Architecture for Teams
Co-Investigator (COI)
2019
$5.0M
Active - SBE-RCUK: Experimental and Descriptive Investigations of Welsh (cym) Consonant Mutation
Co-Investigator (COI)
2015
$362.4K
News
- Measuring 'Hearing Flexibility'
2015
- Linguistics Research Moving in New Direction
2005
Publications (64)
Recent
- The Effect of Cue-specific Lexical Competitors on Hyperarticulation of VOT and F0 Contrasts in Korean Stops
2023
- 6 Words, Probability, and Segmental Information: Less Probable Words Have More Informative Segments
2022
- THE LEXICON AS A HUFFMAN CODE: WORDS ARE STRUCTURED FOR PROBABILISTICALLY BALANCED CONTRASTS
2020
- Incremental word processing influences the evolution of phonotactic patterns
2019
- Greater Early Disambiguating Information for Less-Probable Words: The Lexicon Is Shaped by Incremental Processing
2019
- Crosslinguistic evidence for a strong statistical universal: Phonological neutralization targets word-ends over beginnings
2019
- The role of predictability in shaping phonological patterns
2018
- The phonetic specificity of contrastive hyperarticulation in natural speech
2018
- Priming study: lexical representation of mutated and unmutated forms
2018
- Phonological grammars evolve to preserve information at word beginnings
2018
- The phonetic specificity of competition: Contrastive hyperarticulation of voice onset time in conversational English
2017
- Category competition as a driver of category contrast
2017
- Predicting Perceptually Weak and Strong Unmarked Patterns: A Message-based Approach
2016
- The message shapes phonology
2016
- Languages prefer robust phonemes
2016
- Commentary: Desiccation and tone within linguistic theory and language contact research
2015
- Auditory masked priming in Maltese spoken word recognition
2015
- The co-evolution of speech and the lexicon: The interaction of functional pressures, redundancy and category variation
2015
- Sound change and speech evolution.
2015
- The Co‐evolution of Speech and the Lexicon: The Interaction of Functional Pressures, Redundancy, and Category Variation
2015
- Simulation as an investigative tool in historical phonology
2013
- High functional load inhibits phonological contrast loss: A corpus study
2013
- Lexical contrast constrains phoneme merger: a corpus study
2013
- Uncertainty as an organizing principle of phonology
2012
- Lexical contrast maintenance and the organization of sublexical contrast systems
2012
- Anti-markedness patterns in French deletion and epenthesis
2011
- Self‐organization in phonology
2011
- Anti-markedness patterns in French epenthesis: An information-theoretic approach
2011
- The biological nature of human language
2010
- Treebanks and evolutionary simulation for explaining typological patterns
2009
- Modeling simultaneous convergence and divergence of linguistic features between differently-identifying groups in contact
2009
- Variation, multi-level selection and conflicts between phonological and morphological regularities
2009
- Resolving pattern conflict: Variation and selection in phonology and morphology
2009
- The roles of acquisition and usage in morphological change
2009
- Lexical access, effective contrast and patterns in the lexicon
2009
- Inhibited sound change: An evolutionary approach to lexical competition
2009
- Feedback and regularity in the lexicon
2007
- Functional Load and the Lexicon: Evidence that Syntactic Category and Frequency Relationships in Minimal Lemma Pairs Predict the Loss of Phoneme contrasts in Language Change
2006
- Exemplar models, evolution and language change
2006
- Conspriracies of Contrast in Paradigm Structure
2005
- Self-organization and the development of higher-order phonological patterns
2004
- Category competition drives contrast maintenance within an exemplar-based production/perception loop
2004
- DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in LINGUISTICS
2004
- Simulating evolution of patterns in lexical contrast
2004
- Category competition and contrast maintenance
2004
- Self-Organization and Categorical Behavior in Phonology (Dissertation)
2004
- Self-organization and categorical behavior in phonology
2004
- Gestural motor programs and the nature of phonotactic restrictions: Evidence from loanword phonology
2003
- Gestural motor programs account for asymmetries in loanword adaptation patterns
2003
- Neighborhood density and the root-affix distinction
2002
- Phonological alternation, lexical neighborhood density and markedness in processing
2002
- Perceptual distinctiveness in Turkish emphatic reduplication
2000
- Preservation of contrast in Turkish reduplicative paradigms
2000
- Glycosylation of Homologous Immunodominant Proteins of Ehrlichia chaffeensis and Ehrlichia canis
2000
- Turkish emphatic reduplication
1999
- Stimulation and suppression of PCR-mediated recombination
1998
- Fishing the best pool for novel ribozymes
1996
- In vitro transcription close to the melting point of DNA: analysis of Thermotoga maritima RNA polymerase—promoter complexes at 75° C using chemical probes
1995
- The mechanism of open complex formation by sigma (54)-holoenzyme.
1995
- The bacterial enhancer-binding protein NTRC is a molecular machine: ATP hydrolysis is coupled to transcriptional activation.
1995
- From initiation to elongation: comparison of transcription by prokaryotic and eukaryotic RNA polymerases
1994
- Prokaryotic transcriptional enhancers
1993
- Oligomerization of NTRC at the glnA enhancer is required for transcriptional activation.
1993
- A bacterial enhancer functions to tether a transcriptional activator near a promoter
1990