Andy Martin Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique Ecole Normale Supérieure 29 rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris France email: amartin -at- humnet.ucla.edu

Curriculum Vitae: [pdf]

I'm currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique in Paris. In my dissertation research, I explored how a language's lexicon changes over time; specifically, how a word's phonological properties affect that word's ability to survive and spread in a speech community. I'm in the process of designing experiments to more precisely identify the role played by phonotactic biases in word creation.

Research Interests

• Phonotactic constraints on word formation
• Statistical phonological knowledge and learning
• Consonant harmony and phonological locality
• Optimality theory
  

Dissertation

• 2007. The evolving lexicon. [pdf]

Papers

• Submitted. Grammars leak: Modeling how phonotactic generalizations interact within the grammar. [pdf]
  Comments welcome.
  
  
• To appear. The correlation between markedness and frequency: evidence from Latin and French. Superseded by chapter 2 of my dissertation.
  In Emily Efner and Martin Walkow (eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society.
  
  A file containing the Latin data used in the paper may be downloaded here (zip file includes the spreadsheet in two formats, Excel and tab-delimited text): [zip]
  
  
• 2005. Loanwords as pseudo-compounds in Malagasy. [pdf]
  In Jeffrey Heinz and Dimitris Ntelitheos (eds.), Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association.
  
  
• 2004. The effects of distance on lexical bias: sibilant harmony in Navajo compounds. MA thesis. [pdf]
  
  
• 2003. Postnasal vowel deletion in Navajo. [pdf]
  A squib analyzing conditions on vowel deletion in Navajo with OT.
  
  
• 2003. Constraints on preposition stranding in English. [pdf]
  A remnant movement analysis of some p-stranding asymmetries in English.
  
  
• 2002. Constraints on rhyme and form in English poetry. [pdf]
  An OT analysis of permissible rhyme schemes in English quatrains.
  

Conference Talks

• 2007. Grammars Leak: How categorical phonotactics can cause gradient phonotactics. Poster: [pdf]
  Workshop on Variation, Gradience and Frequency in Phonology, Stanford University.
  
  
• 2007. Less-than-absolute ungrammaticality: geminate avoidance in English morphology.
  GLOW 30, Tromsø, Norway
  
  
• 2007. Geminate avoidance in English Morphology.
  2007 LSA Annual Meeting, Anaheim
  
  
• 2006. The correlation between markedness and frequency: emergent or innate?
  NELS 37, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  
  
• 2005. Loanwords as pseudo-compounds in Malagasy.
  AFLA XII, UCLA
  
  
• 2005. The origins of lexical biases: evidence from Navajo compounds and English naming preferences. Handout: [pdf]
  2005 LSA Annual Meeting, Oakland
  
  
• 2004. The structural nature of locality: gradient distance effects in Navajo sibilant harmony.
  2004 LSA Annual Meeting, Boston
  
  

Updated May 2008