Current position and education


Professor (as of 7/1/2013) and
    Director of Graduate Studies,
      Linguistics Department, UC San Diego

Affiliated faculty:
   Center for Research in Language
      Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science
         Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies

Associate Editor, Language: Phonological Analysis

PhD in Linguistics, Rutgers University, 2000
   BA in Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz, 1993

Recent work


(t. a.)

 

"Phonology and phonological theory." In The Oxford Handbook of Language Production. Preprint available here.

(2013)

 

Blocking and Complementarity in Phonological Theory. London: Equinox Publishing.

(2012)

 

"Local blocking and minimal violation." In Proceedings of CLS 45. Preprint available at ROA-1042.

(2011)

 

"Opacity and ordering." In The Handbook of Phonological Theory, 2nd ed. Preprint available at lingBuzz/000926.

 

(Visit my SelectedWorks site to access all of my available written work.)

Talks/work in progress


(2013)

 

"Learnability of complex phonological interactions: an artificial language learning experiment." Talk presented at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston. Slides available here; extended abstract available here.

(2012)

 

"Breaking down rule interactions." Talk presented at the Seventh North American Phonology Conference, Concordia University, Montréal. Slides available here.