Kie Ross Zuraw
Assistant Professor
UCLA Department of Linguistics
3125 Campbell Hall, Box 951543
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543
phone: 310-710-0401
email: kie at ucla dot edu
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Kie Ross ZurawAssistant Professor
3125 Campbell Hall, Box 951543
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Zuraw, Kie and Yu-An Lu (submitted). Diverse repairs for multiple labial consonants.
Zuraw, Kie (sumitted). A model of lexical variation and the grammar with application to Tagalog nasal substitution.
Zuraw, Kie (to appear). Treatments of weakness in phonological theory. In Donka Minkova (ed.) Weak Segments in English.
Zuraw, Kie (to appear). Frequency influences on rule application within and across words. Proceedings of CLS (Chicago Linguistic Society) 43.
Zuraw, Kie (2007). The role of phonetic
knowledge in phonological patterning: Corpus and survey evidence from Tagalog.
Language 83. Pp. 277-316.
Supersedes earlier manuscript version.
Argues that Tagalog speakers extend the language's infixing morphology to stems beginning
with novel consonant clusters in a way that is consistent with cross-linguistic, phonetically
grounded patterns--but, unlike those patterns, difficult to explain as misperception. These new
data are taken as evidence in favor of a role for phonetic knowledge in phonological patterning.
Zuraw, Kie (2006). Using the web as a phonological corpus:
a case study from Tagalog.
EACL-2006: Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics/Proceedings of the 2nd
International Workshop on Web As Corpus. Pp. 59-66.
Describes the construction of a written corpus of Tagalog from the web and how it can be used
to investigate phonological phenomena. Focus is on intervocalic tapping.
For more details on tapping, see my 2006 ICAL handout,
Variation in Tagalog tapping: word structure and frequency.
Tapping, at least as reflected in spelling choices, is dependent on morphology (required at the stem-suffix
boundary, forbidden at the stem-stem boundary, and optional at the prefix-stem and word-clitic boundaries).
Where tapping is optional, the choice is conditioned in part by word frequency. An analysis is suggested
in which constraints governing prosody can refer to outcomes of lexical access.
Zuraw, Kie (2006). Language change, probabilistic models of. In Ken Brown, editor, The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition. Boston: Elsevier, 349-357.
Zuraw, Kie (2003). Optimality Theory in linguistics. In Michael Arbib, editor, Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, 2nd editon. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp. 819-822.
Introduction to OT for the non-linguist cognitive scientist.
Zuraw, Kie (2003). Probability in language change. In Rens Bod, Jennifer Hay, Stefanie Jannedy, editors, Probabilistic Linguistics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp. 139-176.
Overview of the role of probability in the study of language change: probability as a tool for determining language relatedness; changes in probabilities over time; the role of item frequency in change; the effect of language agents' behavior in a probabilistic environment on change.
References are in a separate file.
Zuraw, Kie (2002). Aggressive reduplication. Phonology 19. Pp. 395-439.
Argues that there is a purely phonological drive for words to be interpreted as reduplicated. (Replaces earlier manuscript version.)
Zuraw, Kie (2002). Vowel Reduction in Palauan Reduplicants. Proceedings of AFLA 8: The Eighth Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 44. Pp. 385-398.
The way unstressed vowels reduce in Palauan reduplicants suggests that the reduplicant has access to the lexical entry.
Curtin, Suzanne
and Kie Zuraw (2002). Explaining Constraint Demotion in a Developing System. In Anna H.-J. Do, Laura Domínguez, and Aimee Johansen, editors, BUCLD 26: Proceedings of the 26th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press.
Demonstrates how the gradual climb of a faithfulness constraint over a series of markedness constraints, under Boersma's Gradual Learning Algorithm, accounts for learners' variable and stage-like behavior, using truncation in Dutch as a case study.
Zuraw, Kie (2000). Patterned Exceptions in Phonology. Ph.D. dissertation, UCLA.
Analyzes some regularities in the distribution of exceptions in Tagalog. Argues that they are part of the language system, and shows how they can be learned, represented, and used in speaking and listening. Gives a computational model of how speaker-hearer interaction shapes the lexicon.
Zuraw, Kie (1999). Regularities in the Derived Lexicon. University of Alberta Papers in Experimental and Theoretical Linguistics 6: 97-105.
Written version of a talk at the University of Alberta Workshop on the Lexicon in Phonetics and Phonology. Discusses how regularities in the distribution of exceptions are encoded in the grammar.
Zuraw, Kie (1996). Floating Phonotactics: Infixation and Reduplication in Tagalog Loanwords. M.A. thesis, UCLA.
Shows how loanwords can force speakers to make decisions about constraints
whose ranking was previously irrelevant. Finds evidence for default ranking
of markedness >> faithfulness.
(Note: equations in Appendix B are illegible, but
main arguments can be followed without them)
200A: Phonological Theory I (Fall 2008)
Also taught in Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2004, Fall 2003
165A: Phonology I (Spring 2008)
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Also taught in Spring 2005, Spring 2004, Spring 2003.
210B: Field Methods II (Winter 2008; Samoan).
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Co-taught with
Hilda Koopman
210A: Field Methods I (Fall 2007; Samoan).
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Co-taught with
Hilda Koopman
Introduction to Phonology (Summer 2007)
Short (4-session) course taught at EALing
The Phonological Status of Morphologically Complex Words (Summer 2007)
Short (7-session) course taught at the LSA Institute
251A/B: Topics in Phonology--the prosodic word (Fall 2006)
210B: Field Methods II (Winter 2006; Javanese). We used a private wiki.
Co-taught with
Hilda Koopman
210A: Field Methods I (Fall 2005; Javanese). We used a private wiki.
Co-taught with
Hilda Koopman
219: Phonological Theory III (Spring 2004)
Also taught in Spring 2003.
210B: Field Methods II (Winter 2004; Malagasy). We used an ecampus site.
Co-taught with
Hilda Koopman
210A: Field Methods I (Fall 2003; Malagasy). We used an ecampus site.
Co-taught with
Hilda Koopman
251A/B: Topics in Phonology--Loanword Phonology (Fall 2002) Syllabus only.
This is a program I wrote that helps phonology students learn about features
(phonetic characteristics that define groups of sounds that pattern together as a "natural
class"). FeaturePad lets you select natural classes and perform feature changes; it detects
contradictions and redundancies. Windows only.
Go to
Bruce Hayes' FeaturePad page to read about or download the program.
You can also read about or download UCLA PhonologyPad, a program written by Dan Albro.
This little program calculates similarity between pairs of phones using the
shared-natural-classes measure of
Frisch,
Broe, & Pierrehumbert (2004), Similarity avoidance and the OCP
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 22: 179-228.
The program is not very user-friendly, and, because it reuses code from UCLA FeaturePad, runs in Windows only.
Download this file: Similar.zip .
(How do you download the files? It depends on your browser.
If you click on the link with the dominant mouse button and a
"Save As..." window appears, use that. Otherwise, click with
the non-dominant mouse button and choose "Save Link As..." or
"Save Target As..." from the menu that appears.)
Unzip it. You should get a folder that contains...