
Invited presentations
- Apr 2011:
Swarthmore College, Dept. of
Linguistics
”Animals & language”
- Feb 2011:
California State University - Fullerton,
Dept. of English, Comp Lit, &
Linguistics
”Phonology: why & how?”
- Dec 2010:
Université de Nice, Laboratoire Bases, Corpus et
Langage
”Primitive operations in
phonology”
- May 2010:
University of Delaware, Phonology & Phonetics
Lab
”Harmony: what’s possible action at a
distance?”
- Apr 2010:
Interface workshop, Syracuse
(with T. Lohndal)
”I-phrases & PF crashes”
- Dec
2009: Yale Dept. of
Linguistics
"What can syntax do for phonology? A case study in
Basque" - handout
- May
2009: UMD CNL Lab
“Primitive operations in phonology” -
slides
- May
2008: NAPhC 5, Montréal
"Toppling the hierarchy in phonology"
- Mar
2008: Harvard Mind, Brain, & Behavior
Initiative
"PF in evolutionary perspective"
- Nov
2007: Concordia LSA Colloquium
"Approaching syllables from below"
- Mar 2007:
Harvard GSAS Workshop on Indo-European Linguistics
"Focusing on topics in Anatolian syntax"
- Oct
2004: Harvard LinG / Harvard
Celtic Club
"Teanga eile: the return to Irish poetry"
Conference presentations
- May 2012:
NAPhC 7, Montréal
”Who’s on second? Prosodic domains and South
Slavic clitics”
- Mar
2012: GLOW 35, Potsdam
(with T. Lohndal) “On
how null elements and unpronounced copies are
different”
- Jan
2012: LSA Annual
Meeting, Portland
(with K.K. Grohmann) Co-chair/moderator, Workshop on
Biolinguistics
- May
2011: Parallel Domains
Workshop, Los
Angeles
(with C. Boeckx)
“How parallel domains like syntax &
phonology intersect: unifying the cycle”
- slides
- Dec
2010: On Linguistic
Interfaces, Belfast
(with T. Lohndal)
”The edges of the syntax-phonology
interface”
- May
2010: The Language
Design, Montréal
”Phonological forms: from ferrets to fingers”
- poster
- May
2010: MFM 18,
Manchester
”From syntax to phonology: phi & phases”
- poster
- Feb
2010: 32nd Jahrestagung der
DGfS, Berlin
(with T. Lohndal)
"Linearizing edges at the PF interface" [linearization
workshop]
- Jan
2010: LSA Annual
Meeting, Baltimore
"Basque vowel assimilation: a direct interface approach"
- poster
- Dec
2009: ConSOLE 18
Workshop, Barcelona
(with H. Narita)
“The H-α schema & phonological
derivation by phase” - handout
- Dec
2009: ConSOLE 18
Workshop, Barcelona
(with T. Lohndal)
“The edges of the syntax-phonology
interface” [alternate]
- July
2009: Curso de Verano en lenguaje, cerebro y
genes, Jaca
“Phonology: FLN or FLB?” -
poster,
references
- May
2009: MFM 17,
Manchester
“From strings to loops &
back”
- Apr
2009: GLOW 32, Nantes
“Loops, linearity, & the
lexicon”
- Mar
2009: PLC 33,
Philadelphia
“Phonological derivation by phase: evidence from
Basque” - paper
- Jan
2009: OCP 6, Edinburgh
(with C. Boeckx)
“What emerges from Merge in phonology?”
- slides
- Jan
2009: LSA Annual
Meeting, San Francisco
“Searching for morphophonological
anchors”
- Oct
2008: MSM 2, Istanbul
(with B. Kamali) "All non-final stress suffixes in
Turkish are not created equal"
- Sep
2008: TIE 3, Lisbon
(with B. Kamali) “The syntax of Turkish
pre-stressing suffixes” - slides
- Jul
2008: BALE 2008, York
"The third factor in phonology" - paper
- Mar
2008: MOT Phonology
Workshop, Montréal
“Searching for morphophonological
anchors”
- Jan
2008: CUNY Conference on the
Syllable
"A string theory of syllables"
- Oct
2007: NELS 38, Ottawa
"Structure & specification in harmony" -
paper
- Apr
2006: 4th Annual Harvard Undergraduate
Linguistics Colloquium
"Problems in Attic phonology" - paper
- Apr
2005: 3rd Annual Harvard Undergraduate
Linguistics Colloquium
"Phonological representation in Akkadian orthography"
- handout,
slides
- Jul
2004: International Conference on
Globalization & World
Englishes, Syracuse
(with C. Maxwell) "Fighting for control of the written
and spoken language of the digital age"
- May
2004: Concordia Linguistics
Undergraduate
Conference
"Lifting the veil on perception"
- Apr
2004: 2nd Annual Harvard Undergraduate
Linguistics Colloquium
"Can you do that with a cheetah? What they're not telling
you about OT, and why you should care"
- Jan
2004: LSA Annual
Meeting, Boston
(with B. Vaux)
"Explaining vowel systems: dispersion vs. evolution" -
special long talk
Other presentations
- May 2010:
University of Oslo, Seminar in Theoretical Linguistics
(with T. Lohndal)
“Linearizing empty edges”
- Oct 2009: UMD
Syntax Lab
"From syntax to phonology"
- Apr 2008:
Harvard Linguistic Theory Group
"Phonological derivation by phase"
- Oct
2007: MIT Phonology
Circle
"Structure & specification in harmony"
- Oct 2006:
Harvard Linguistic Theory Group
"Reduplication & verbal morphology in Tagalog"
- handout
- May
2006: Harvard Linguistics Department
Honors
Thesis Colloquium
"Nothing to lose but their chains: rethinking vocalic
chain shifting"
- Nov
2005: Harvard LinG Speaker
Series
"Bronze Age Minimalism: revisiting the clausal structure
of Lycian"
- Apr
2004: Harvard LinG Speaker
Series
"Time is everything: against a synchronic theory of vowel
systems"
- May
2003: Harvard LinG Speaker
Series
"Lifting the veil on perception"
- Apr
2003: MIT Phonology
Circle
(with B. Vaux) "Lifting
the veil on perception"