Talks

Phonology

• Sonority Alignment (Abstract|Slides). submitted for mfm 32:2025
• How Many Strata. Tel Aviv University Linguistics Colloquium. Tel Aviv:2024 (Slides)
• Gradient Symbolic Representations Resolve Stratal Paradoxes. Myopia in Grammar Workshop Leipzig:2024 (Slides)
• Lexical Accent Meets Ghost Vowels. Nxa'amxcin (Moses Columbia Salish) Accent, mfm 30. Manchester:2023 (Abstract|Slides)
• Against introfixation in Karimojong. Cyclops Fall Retreat. Tambach-Dietharz:2023 (Slides)
• Gã Stratal Tone. Internal Cyclops presentation. Leipzig:2023 (Slides)
• Ngizim Verb Tone. Internal Cyclops presentation. Leipzig:2023 (Slides)
• Conflicting Directionality in Eastern Mari. Cyclops Fall Retreat. Kloster Donndorf:2022 (Slides)
• Lexically Conditioned Phrasal Tone. SinFonIJA 2019 Brno:September 2019 (Slides)
• Rich Representations: A Tonal View on Lexical Exceptionality. mfm27. Manchester:2019. (Abstract|Slides)
• A Concatenative Account of Japanese Subtractive Accent. Accent Workshop, Leipzig:2019. (Slides)
• A Harmonic Layer Account of Levantine Arabic Syncope. OCP 16 Verona:2019 (Abstract|Slides)
• The Strength and Weakness of Tone: A New Account to Tonal Exceptions and Tone Representations (with Eva Zimmermann). Phorum, UC Berkeley:March 2018. (Slides)
• An Infection Analysis of Across-the-Board Lowering in Jumjum. OCP 15. London:2018 (Abstract|Slides)
• Eslarn Infinitive Allomorphy is Optimizing. mfm26. Manchester:2018. (Poster)
• Opaque Boundary Tones in Jumjum. Phonology colloquium Frankfurt:2017. (Abstract|Slides)
• Syllable-counting Tone Allomorphy in Bari (with Daniel Gleim). mfm25. Manchester:2017. (Abstract|Slides)
• Syntagmatic Markedness in Tonga Tone (with Eva Zimmermann). Workshop on Markedness. Frankfurt:July 2017. (Slides)
• Mutual Counterfeeding and Duke-of-York Blocking in Bari. OCP 14. Düsseldorf:2017. (Abstract|Slides)
• Featural Spreading and Affixation in Gaahmg. Replication Workshop, Leipzig:2016. (Abstract|Slides)
• Structural Cumulativity in German Umlaut. mfm24. Manchester:2016. (Abstract|Slides)
• (Im)possible Opacity Patterns in Containment Theory. (with Eva Zimmermann) PhonoLAM, Leiden:2016. (Abstract|Slides)
• Polarity, Floating Tones and the OCP in Anywa, OCP 13 Budapest:2016. (Abstract |Slides)
• Weight vs. Weight, Tone vs. Tone: Affix Blocking in Featural Affixation Systems, LAGB Workshop on Morphological Complexity:2015. (Abstract |Slides)
• Tonal Overwriting as Circumfifixation. mfm23. Manchester:2015. (Poster)
• Anticyclic Tone Polarity in Asante Twi, Tromsø Spellout Workshop:2015. (Slides)
• Exocentric Mutation as argument for Generalized Nonlinear Affixation (with Eva Zimmermann), OCP 12, Barcelona:2015. (Abstract|Slides)
• Overlap and Subregularities in German Noun Plurals, 22th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester:2014. (Abstract|Slides)
• Morphophonological Tone Polarity and Phonological Opacity University College London:2014. (Slides)
• A phonological account of Length-Manipulation in the Morphology: The case of Aymara (with Eva Zimmermann), 21st Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester:2013. (Slides)
• Moraic prefixes, suffixes, and infixes (with Eva Zimmermann), Linguistics Colloquium, University of British Columbia, Vancouver:2013. (Slides)
• Chain-Shifting Mutation As Compound Opacity: Vowel Raising in Mayak, 20th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester:2012. (Abstract|Slides)
• Floating-μ and Defective-• Affixation in Anywa, CUNY Conference on the Segment NYC:2012. (Abstract|Slides)
• μ-Prefixes and μ-Circumfixes in Dinka, 19th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester:2011. (Abstract|Slides)
• Generalized mora affixation (with Eva Zimmermann) WCCFL 28, Los Angeles:2010 (Abstract|Slides)
• Locality Conditions on Umlaut Restrict German Schwa Epenthesis, Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam:2010. (Slides)
• Morphological and Phonological Lenition in Manx, 17th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester:2009. (Slides)
• Umlaut, paradigmatische Distinktheit und phonologische Intervention, pGGS, Leipzig:2009. (Slides)
• Chain-shifting Mutation in Irish and Multi-valued Features, OCP 6, Edinburgh:2009. (Abstract|Slides)
• Bisyllabicity and Prosodic Domains, Prosodic Alignment at the Word Level, Mannheim:2008. (Slides)
• Luo Voicing Polarity as Opaque Licensing Intervention, Workshop on Phonological Voicing Variation, Amsterdam & Leiden:2008. (Abstract|Slides)
• Syllable-counting Allomorphy by Indexed Constraints, OCP5, Toulouse:2008. (Abstract|Slides)
• Multiple-Feature Mutation and REALIZE MORPHEME, 15th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester:2007. (Abstract|Slides)
• Stress Uniformity in Albanian: Morphological Arguments for Cyclicity, GLOW Workshop on Approaches to phonological opacity, Barcelona:2006. (Abstract|Slides)
• Core Mechanisms of Exponence, 1st Meeting of the Network "Core Mechanisms of Exponence", Leipzig:2007. (Slides)
• Anonymous Tone Linking in Olusamia, "Workshop on Tone and Intonation 2", Berlin:2006. (Abstract|Slides)
• Amharic Roots and Pattterns, "Flexionstheorie im Osten", Leipzig:2005. (Slides)
• Against Antifaithfulness in Luo, 2005. (Abstract|Slides)
• Polar Tone in Kanuri, Manchester Phonology Meeting, 2005. (Abstract|Slides)
• Albanian Word Stress (with Angela Grimm), "Manchester Phonology Meeting", Manchester:2004. (Slides)
• Case suffixes, postpositions and the phonological word in Hungarian, Word Domains, Leipzig:2004. (Abstract)

Morphology

• Paradigm Learning and Subanalysis Complexity. CLS 48 (with Sebastian Bank) Chicago:2012.
• Learning and the Complexity of Ø-Affixation (with Sebastian Bank). Conference on Morphological Complexity, London:2012. (Slides)
• Complex Scales in Multiargument Agreement (with Sebastian Bank). Décembretes 7, Toulouse. (Poster),Toulouse;2010.
• A Postsyntactic Morphome Cookbook, Coimbra:2010 (Abstract|Slides).
• Complex Scales: Modelling the Interaction of Person and Number Hierarchies in Karuk Verbal Agreement (with Sebastian Bank) 14th International Morphology Meeting, (Slides) Budapest:2010.
• Generalized Impoverishment. Polyfunctionality and Underspecification, Wittenberg:2009 (Slides).
• Hierachy-Effects in Karuk (with Sebastian Bank). Morphology of the World's Languages, Leipzig:2009. (Slides)
• Tutorial on Paradigms. Workshop on the Divison of Labour between Morphology and Phonology, Amsterdam:2009. (Slides)
• Zero-Agreement in Turkana, Workshop on Scales. Leipzig:2008. (Slides)
• On Portmanteau Agreement, Harvard-Leipzig Workshop on Workshop on Morphology and Argument Encoding, Cambridge MA:2007. (Abstract|Slides)
• Affix-Abfolgen, FU, Berlin:2007. (Slides)
• Plural Insertion is Constructed Plural, "WOTM 2", Leipzig:2006. (Slides)
• Blocking, Intervention and Ablaut in German Verb Inflection, DGfS Workshop (Morphological) Blocking and Linguistic Variation, Siegen:2007. (Abstract|Slides)
• Die formale Repräsentation von Markierheit in der Flexion des Deutschen, Köln:2005. (Slides)
• Direction Marking and Case in Menominee "Case, Valency and Transitivity", Nijmegen:2003. (Slides)
• A feature-geometric approach to Amharic verb classes, "(Non-)Identity in Paradigms", MIT:2004. (Abstract)
• Redundancy and Spellout Domains in Menominee, "Redundancy phenomena on the word and (Abstract) phrase level", Vienna:2004.
• Modularity in OT-Morphosyntax, "Architecture of Grammar", Hyderabad:2002. (Slides)
• Hungarian has no portmanteau agreement, "ICSH-6", Düsseldorf:2002. (Slides)
• Deriving Economy Principles in OT Morphology, "Lexicon in Linguistic Theory", Düsseldorf:2001. (Slides)
• The Role of Syntax and Morphology in Affix Order, "3rd Mediterranean Morphology Meeting", Barcelona:2001. (Slides)
• Formalizing Direct Optimality Theory, "Komplexitätstheoretische Eigenschaften von Grammatikformalismen", Tübingen:1999. (Slides)

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