Kevin Ryan

UCLA Department of Linguistics
3125 Campbell Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543

I'm a Ph.D. student in Linguistics at UCLA specializing in phonology, morphology, and the modeling of language learning, variation, and change.

2009. “Morphotactic extension: A learning-theoretic explanation of free variation in affix order.” LSA Annual Meeting.
2009. “Released glottal stop and prosodic constituency in Matatlán Zapotec.” SSILA Annual Meeting.
2008. “Gradient morphotactics in Tagalog.” Berkeley Workshop on Affix Ordering.
Zuraw, Kie with Kevin Ryan. 2007. “Frequency influences on phonological rule application within and across words.”
Workshop on Variation, Gradience, and Frequency in Phonology, Stanford.
2007. “Morphotactics: Affix order variation and learnability in Tagalog.” Masters thesis, UCLA.
2007. “Two dimensions of correspondence in half-rhyme.” Poetics Fest 2, UC Santa Cruz.
2005. “Rimeless rhymes.” Poetics Fest, Workshop on Language and Poetic Form, Stanford.
UCLA Phonology Seminars:
- Oct 2009: Gradient syllable weight in Sanskrit metrics
- May 2009: Similarity is not enough: The universal phonology of rhyme and alliteration
- Mar 2009: On the formal learnability of masked generalizations
- May 2008: Typologizing gradience
- Feb 2008: Order in morphology
- Mar 2007: Some features assimilate and others dissimilate in the prerhyme vowels of half-rhyme traditions
- Feb 2007: Phonetic corpus evidence on a variable rule (with Kie Zuraw)
- Nov 2006: On the mobility of Tagalog's aspectual reduplicant
- Jun 2006: Stacked opacities in Sanskrit postlexical sandhi
- Mar 2006: Phonetics in poetics: A cue-based approach to the typology of rhyme

Spring 2010: Ling. 165A Phonology II (with Robert Daland)
Spring 2009: Ling. 110 Historical Linguistics (with Pamela Munro)
Winter 2009: Ling. 20 Introduction to Linguistics (with Carson Schütze)
Spring 2008: Ling. 132 Language Processing (with Carson Schütze)
Winter 2008: Ling. 120A Phonology I (with Michael Marlo)
Fall 2007, Fall 2009: Ling. 114 American Indian Linguistics (with Pamela Munro)

University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D. program in Linguistics, 2005-present (M.A. 2007)
University of California, Berkeley
B.A. with Highest Distinction, Linguistics (Honors);
South & Southeast Asian Studies (Honors), 2003
Stanford University
completed first year of Ph.D. program in Linguistics, 2004-5
Linguistic Society of America Summer Institutes
MIT/Harvard, 2005; Stanford, 2007

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2004-7)
Linguistic Society of America Institute Fellowships (2005, 2007)
UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship (Pamela Munro, 2007)
UCLA Graduate Research Assistantships (Pat Keating, summer 2005; Kie Zuraw, 2006-2007; Russ Schuh, 2010)
2003 Departmental Citation for Outstanding Achievement in the Major, Berkeley Linguistics
Research Assistant, Yurok Language Project, Berkeley (Andrew Garrett, 2002-3)

Last updated 16 July 2009