Papers

• Grammars leak: Modeling how phonotactic generalizations interact within the grammar.
  New version coming soon.
  
  
• 2008. 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 Superseded by chapter 2 of my dissertation.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.