Jeffrey Heinz Assistant Professor Dept. of Linguistics and Cognitive Science. University of Delaware 42 E. Delaware Avenue Newark, DE 19716 heinz@udel.edu

Interests

• Phonology
• Formal language theory and learnability
• Austronesian languages
• Typology
• Finite State Optimality Theory

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Papers

• Submitted. On the Role of Locality in Learning Stress Patterns. [pdf] Comments welcome!
  • Appendix of FSAs [pdf]
  • Appendix of Sources [pdf]


• Submitted. Evaluating the Complexity of Optimality Theory. (With Greg Kobele and Jason Riggle). [pdf] Comments welcome!


• 2007. Learning Unbounded Stress Patterns via Local Inference. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society (NELS 37). Preprint version [pdf]. (link to slides below)


• 2006. Learning Quantity-Insensitive Stress Patterns via Local Inference. Proceedings of The Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group in Phonology 6 (ACL-SIGPHON 06) [pdf]


• 2006. Learning Phonotactic Patterns from Surface Forms. Proceedings of The 25th West Coast Conference of Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 25). [pdf]


• 2005. Reconsidering Linearity: Evidence from Kwara'ae. Proceedings of The 24th West Coast Conference of Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 24). [pdf]


• 2005. Optional Partial Metathesis in Kwara'ae. UCLA Working Papers no. 12, Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA). [pdf]


• 2005. Descriptons and Generalizations of Kwara'ae Surface Forms. UCLA Working Papers in Lingustics, no. 11, Papers in Phonology 6. [pdf]


• 2004. CV Metathesis in Kwara'ae. University of California, Los Angeles. Unpublished master's thesis (Adviser: Kie Zuraw).[pdf][abstract]

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Talks

• 2007. Learning Long-Distance Agreement Phonotactics. The 81st Meeting of Linguistics Society of America (LSA). (slides) [pdf] (handout) [pdf]


• 2006. Learning Unbounded Stress Patterns via Local Inference. The 37th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society (NELS 37). (slides) [pdf]


• 2006. Learning Quantity-Insensitive Stress Patterns via Local Inference. The Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group in Phonology 6 (ACL-SIGPHON 06)


• 2006. Learning Phonotactic Patterns from Surface Forms. The 25th West Coast Conference of Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 25).


• 2005. Optional partial metathesis in Kwara'ae. The 12th Annual Conference of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA). University of California, Los Angeles.


• 2005. CV metathesis in Kwara'ae: implications for a theory of stress. The 28th Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) Colloquium. Geneva, Switzerland. (handout) [pdf]


• 2005. Reconsidering Linearity: evidence from Kwara'ae. The 24th West Coast Conference of Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 24). Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. (handout) [pdf]


• 2005. Exploring the typology of quantity-insensitive stress systems without gradient constraints. With Greg Kobele and Jason Riggle. Lingustic Society of America. Oakland, California. (handout) [pdf]


• 2005. CV metathesis as copy and deletion: synchronic evidence from Kwara'ae. Lingustic Society of America. Oakland, California. (handout) [pdf]


• 2004. CV metathesis as syncope: evidence from Kwara'ae. Western Conference of Lingustics (WECOL). University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. (handout) [pdf]

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Last updated: January 9, 2008