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Research areas: morphology, morpho-phonology, cognitive biases and categorization, computational models of morphological and phonological learning, Russian
- artificial grammar learning and cognitive biases (with Elliott Moreton (UNC), Joe Pater (UMass), and Lisa Sanders (UMass)).
- acquisition of verbal morphology in Russian with special attention to defectiveness (with Anastasiya Lopukhina (HSE, Russia))
- typology of pronominal morphology (see this database of pronominal paradigms)
- morpho-syntax of compounding in Spanish and Russian (with Dimitrios Ntelitheos (UAE University))
Categorization, cross-domain cognitive biases
- "Learning repetition, but not syllable reversal" with Elliott Moreton, Brandon Pricket, Josh Fennell, Joe Paters and Lisa Sanders in Proceedings of the 2020 Annual Meeting of Phonology (link)
- "In support of phonology bias in implicit learning" with Misha Becker. 2020. Language Learning and Development. 17(2). pp. 128-157. (preprint version) pdf
- "Phonological concept learning" with Elliott Moreton and Joe Pater. 2016. Cognitive Science 41 (1), pp. 4-69. (offprint)
- "Implicit and explicit processes in phonotactic learning" with Elliott Moreton. 2016. Proceedings of BUCLD 2015 pdf
- "Pastry phonotactics: Is phonological learning special?" with Elliott Moreton. 2013. In proceedings of the 43rd annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, CUNY, NY. pdf
- "Linguistic Categorization and Complexity." 2012. In proceedings of the 12th meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Computational Morphology and Phonology, pp. 72-81. pdf
- "Logical Complexity in Morphological Learning: effects of structure and null/overt affixation on learning paradigms." 2012. In proceedings of the 38th meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. pdf
Morphology and morpho-phonology
- "The limits of morphological productivity." 2021. Slides for the FASL 2021 conference. pdf
- "Root and semiphrasal compounds: A syntactic approach." with Dimitrios Ntelitheos. 2019. Proceedings of the 2019 meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Ed. Patrick Farrell. Vol. 4. pp. 301-314. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v4i1.4530
- "Emergent Positional Faithfulness in Novel English Blends'' with J. L. Smith, E. Moreton, R. Broad and B. Pricket. 2017. Language 93 (2), pp. 347-380.
- "Transderivational Relations and Paradigm Gaps in Russian Verbs" 2016. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 1(1), 13. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.59
- "Experimental Evidence for Lexical Conservatism in Russian: defective verbs revisited" 2015. proceedings of FASL 24 link
- "Emergent faithfulness to proper nouns in novel English blends." with Rachel Broad, Brandon Prickett, Elliott Moreton, and Jennifer Smith. proceedings of WCCFL 33, 2015. pdf
- "Interaction of morphology and phonology in Russian genitive plural allomorphy" 2015. Morphology 25, pp. 229-266. DOI 10.1007/s11525-015-9256-1 (offprint)
- "Emergent noun faithfulness in novel English blends" with Jennifer Smith, Elliott Moreton, and Rachel Broad. from presentation at the 22nd Manchester Phonology Meeting; University of Manchester, May, 2014 (handout)
- "Asymmetries in priming of verbal and nominal inflectional affixes in Russian" with Sarah VanWagenen 2014. In the special issue of UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics 18, Connectedness. Papers by and for Sarah VanWagenen. C. Schuetze and L. Stockall (eds.) Papers in Linguistics, no. 18, Carson Schutze and Linnaea Stockall (eds.)
- "Morphological Markedness in an OT-Grammar: zeros and syncretism" 2014. In supplemental proceedings of Phonology 2013, John Kingston, Claire Moore-Cantwell, Joe Pater, and Robert Staubs (eds.), Linguistic Society of America, Washington DC. link
- "How lexical conservatism can lead to paradigm gaps" 2005. In UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics, no. 11 pdf
Learning of inflection
- "Machine learning of inflection," to appear in the Oxford Handbook of Inflection, M. Baerman (ed.) (pdf) (comments are still welcome)
- "Grounding systematic syncretism in learning" (2011). Linguistic Inquiry, 42:2
- "Comparing learners for Boolean partitions: implications for morphological paradigms." (2009). In Proceedings of a workshop on Grammatical Inference, EACL 2009 (pdf)
Dissertation (UCLA, 2007)
Software
A learner for morphological paradigms (Type 3 learner)Classes I teach regularly
- Ling 101 (Introduction to language)
- Ling 527 (Morphology)
- Ling 545 (Language and Mind)
- Ling 540 (Mathematical linguistics)
- Ling 562 (Structure of Russian)
- Ling 401 (Language and Computers)
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