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Education
2015-present Ph.D student in Linguistics
University of California, San Diego
Dissertation committee: Sharon Rose (chair), Eric Bakovic, Marc Garellek, Rachel
Walker, Sarah Creel
2015 M.A. in Linguistics
University of Florida
Advisors: Caroline Wiltshire (chair), Brent Henderson (co-chair), Ratree Wayland
2005 B.A. (with honors) in Religion, summa cum laude
Presbyterian College
Publications
to appear McCollum, Adam G. Vowel dispersion and Kazakh labial harmony. Phonology 35.
2017 Chen, Si; Zhang Caicai, Adam G. McCollum, and Ratree Wayland. Statistical
modelling of phonetic and phonologised perturbation effects in tonal and non-tonal
languages. Speech Communication 88: 17-38. doi: 10.1016/j.specom.2017.01.006
Manuscripts
under revision Essegbey, James, and Adam G. McCollum. Initial prominence and progressive vowel
harmony in Tutrugbu.
under review McCollum, Adam G. and Chen, Si. Kazakh.
submitted McCollum, Adam G. The empirical consequences of data collection methods: A case
study from Kazakh vowel harmony.
in preparation McCollum, Adam G.; Eric Bakovic; Anna Mai, and Eric Meinhardt. Tutrugbu and weak
determinism.
in preparation McCollum, Adam G. Word- and phrase-level prominence in Kazakh.
Conference Proceedings
2018 Non-iterative vowel harmony in Crimean Tatar. Proceedings of WCCFL 35. Calgary, CA
(with Darya Kavitskaya).
2018 Unbounded harmony is not always myopic: Evidence from Tutrugbu. Proceedings of
WCCFL 35. Calgary, Canada (with James Essegbey).
2017 Mayak and the typology of labial harmony. In The Supplemental Proceedings of the
Annual Meeting on Phonology. Los Angeles, California.
2016 Modeling the Gradient Evolution and Decay of Harmony Systems. In The
Supplemental Proceedings of the Annual Meeting on Phonology. Vancouver, BC.
2015 Labial Harmonic Shift in Kazakh: Mapping the Pathways and Motivations for Decay.
In The Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society,
University of California, Berkeley, pp. 329-352.
Presentations
2017 Conditional blocking in Tutrugbu requires non-determinism: Implications for the sub-
regular hypothesis. NELS 47. Reykjavik, Iceland. October 27-29.
2017 Non-iterative harmony in Crimean Tatar (with Darya Kavitskaya). SCaMP. Los Angeles,
CA. May 7.
2017 Non-iterative harmony in Crimean Tatar (with Darya Kavitskaya). WCCFL 35. Calgary,
Alberta, Canada. April 28-30.
2017 Unbounded harmony is not always myopic: Evidence from Tutrugbu (with James
Essegbey). WCCFL 35. Calgary, Alberta, Canada, April 28-30. poster.
2016 Vowel harmony in Tutrugbu: Is it phonology or morphosyntax? UC Berkeley Phorum.
November 7.
2016 Mayak and the typology of labial harmony. Annual Meeting on Phonology, Los
Angeles, California, October 21-23. poster.
2016 A Dispersionary Analysis of Labial Harmony in Kazakh. Southern California April
Meeting on Phonology, UC San Diego, April 8-9.
2015 Reinterpreting Height-Conditioned Trigger Strength in Kazakh Labial Harmony.
Turkish, Turkic, and the Languages of Turkey (Tu+1), University of Massachusets, Amherst.
November 21.
2015 Dispersion-driven Spreading in Kazakh Labial Harmony. UC Santa Cruz Phlunch,
November 13.
2015 Modeling the Gradient Evolution and Decay of Harmony Systems. The Annual
Meeting on Phonology, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 9-11. poster.
2015 Labial Harmonic Shift in Kazakh: Mapping the Pathways and Motivations for Decay.
41st Berkeley Linguistics Society, University of California, Berkeley. February 6-7.
2015 On the Decay of Rounding Harmony in Kazakh: A Case of Contact-Induced Shift?
CUNY Conference on Multilingual Phonology, CUNY, January 15-16.
Funding Awarded
2018 UCSD Summer Graduate Teaching Scholarship, $1,200.
2015-present The Katzin Prize
2015-2017 Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship
2015-2017 NSF DDRIG Yazgulyami Syllable Structure (BCS #1500802, PI- Sharon Rose), $17,993.
2015 Ruth O. McQuown Award, $5,000, declined
2013-2015 Graduate Student Fellowship, $20,000 annually, University of Florida.
2013 Board of Education Summer Fellowship, University of Florida, $6,500.
2008 Social Science Research Council funding for intensive study of Tajik at The Summer
Workshop in Slavic and Eastern European Languages at Indiana University, $3,000.
2002-2005 Coca-Cola First Generation Scholarship, $5,000 annually.
Research Interests
Phonology
Gradience
Vowel Harmony
Languages of Central Asia (Turkic and Persian)
Laboratory phonology
Field methodologies
Language documentation
Fieldwork
summer 2018 Tutrugbu (as instructor at CoLang), Gainesville, Florida
2017 Backness harmony in Turkic
2015-2017 Yazgulyami Syllable Structure, Andarbag, Tajikistan.
2016 Kazakh stress, Kapal, Kazakhstan
2014 Yazgulyami phonological description, Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
2014 Kazakh vowel harmony, Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan
Language Proficiency
Kazakh (advanced)
Kyrgyz (intermediate)
Russian (intermediate)
Uzbek (elementary)
Turkish (elementary)
Tajik (elementary)
Tutrugbu (research)
Yazgulyami (research)
Reviewing
2017 Ad-hoc reviewer for Oxford University Press, ACAL 47
2016 Ad-hoc reviewer for JIPA
Teaching Experience
As instructor-of-record:
Summer 2018 (1st session) Field Methods: Tutrugbu (co-instructor with James Essegbey and
Felix Ameka). The Institute for Collaborative Research on Language
(CoLang). University of Florida.
Summer 2018 (2nd session) LIGN 101: Introduction to the Study of Language. University of
California, San Diego.
As teaching assistant:
Winter 2018 LIGN 111: Phonology
Instructor: Eric Bakovic
Fall 2017 LIGN 101: Introduction to the Study of Language
Instructor: Andy Kehler
Service
2017-present Admissions Committee, UC San Diego
2015-2017 Colloquium Committee, UC San Diego
2015 Executive Planning Committee, Creating Linguistic Worlds: Documenting, Recording,
and Archiving Languages. University of Florida, March 19-22.
2014-2015 Graduate Linguistics Society President, University of Florida
2013-2015 Phonology Interest Group Facilitator, University of Florida
2013-2015 Language Documentation Interest Group member, University of Florida
2013-2014 Graduate Student Representative to the faculty, University of Florida
Organizational Membership
2014-present Linguistic Society of America
Relevant Professional Experience
2006-2007 English Education Department Head, REACH Public Fund, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
2009-2012 Education Department Head, REACH Public Fund, Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan.
2010-2011 Regional Director of English Standardized Testing, Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan.