William James Idsardi

Research Interests

Phonology and its connections to other components of grammar and mind (phonetics, morphology, syntax, poetry, acquisition, neurolinguistics and computational models)

Degrees

• Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (Minor: Phonetics)
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992.
  Dissertation: The Computation of Prosody
  Committee: Morris Halle (supervisor), James Harris, Michael Kenstowicz, S. Jay Keyser
• Bachelor of Arts in Mathematical Linguistics (Honours, with distinction)
  University of Toronto, 1988

Academic Appointments

• Fulbright-York University Distinguished Chair in Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University, September 2005 - May 2006
• Fulbright Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto, January - August 1999
• Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Program in Cognitive Science, University of Delaware, September 1998 - present
• Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Program in Cognitive Science, University of Delaware, September 1992 - August 1998

Administrative Appointments

• Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of Delaware, September 2002 - present
• Acting Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of Delaware, September - December 1999; September 2000 - August 2002

Grants and Awards

• (in preparation) Learning phonological rules (with Charles Yang)
• (in preparation) Vietnamese phonology (with Irene Vogel, Hoa Pham)
• (in preparation) Documenting opacity
• Canadian Raising: The Cognitive Science of Dialects. Fulbright-York University Distingushed Chair York University, 2005 - 2006, $20,000
• Fulbright Senior Scholar fellowship, Learning and Using Laryngeal Features, University of Toronto, 1999, $21,600
• University of Delaware, CTE grant, 1998, $1500 (Mark Amsler, PI)
• University of Delaware, Arts and Science Research Award, 1997, $1,000
• University of Delaware, Fellowship, Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education, Summer 1997, $1,500
• National Science Foundation, Laboratory in Cognitive and Linguistic Science, 1996-1997, $52,000, co-Principal Investigator with William Frawley, H. Timothy Bunnell and Fred Masterson
• National Science Foundation, Presidential Faculty Fellow Award nominee
• University of Delaware Research Foundation, Phonological Foundations for Speech Production and Recognition, 1994-1995, $20,000
• University of Delaware General University Research Program, Free Stress in Language, Poetry and Song, 1994, $5,000
• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship 1989-1992
• University of Toronto Open Scholarship 1982-1985
• Ontario Scholarship 1982

Other Employment

• Bell Northern Research (Voice Interfacing Group) 1988
  Developed speech analysis and manipulation tools: waveform pitch-period editor, spectrum editor, F0 estimator, harmonic marker and speech rate manipulator.
• Educational Software Products 1985-1988
  Computational Linguist and Product Manager, English 1
  • Designed, implemented and documented a natural language analysis and tutorial system, English 1, which included a morphological analysis and re-synthesis system, a lexicon of 35,000 roots and a syntactic parser.
  • Hired and supervised linguistic staff (one linguist and five lexicographers).
  • Evaluated competing products, did initial marketing and product demonstrations.

Dissertations Supervised

• Karthik Durvasula, University of Delaware, PhD, expected 2007.
• Elanna Tseng, University of Delaware, PhD, expected 2006.
• Ngeethai Yap, University of Delaware, PhD, expected 2005. Modeling Syllable Theory with Finite-State Transducers
• Sun-Ah Son, University of Delaware, PhD, expected 2005. The acquisition of English fricatives by Korean speakers of English as a Second Language.
• Suppatra Tongkalaya, University of Delaware, PhD, 2005. Repair Strategies of the Fricative-Stop Clusters in Thai-English Interlanguage.
• Eun-Kyung Sung, University of Delaware, PhD, 2003. The production and perception of flaps in Korean and English. (co-advisor with Irene Vogel)
• Baris Kabak, University of Delaware, PhD, 2003. Phonology and Second Language Speech Perception.
• Woohyeok Chang, University of Delaware, PhD, 2003. The Use of Phonetic Evidence to Resolve Phonological Controversies.
• Patcharee Imsri, University of Delaware, PhD, 2003. The perception of English Stop Consonants by Thai Children and Adults.
• Stephanie Baker, University of Delaware, PhD, 2002. The Perception of Handshape in American Sign Language. (co-advisor with Roberta Golinkoff)
• Eric Raimy, University of Delaware, PhD, 1999. Representing Reduplication.
• Sun-Hoi Kim, Univeristy of Delaware, PhD, 1999. The Metrical Computation in Tone Assignment.
• Thomas Purnell, University of Delaware, PhD, 1997. Principles and Parameters of Phonological Rules: Evidence from Tone Languages.
• Guangsheng Zhang, University of Delaware, PhD, 1996. Foot-timing and word-timing in English. (co-advisor with Tim Bunnell),

Other Dissertation Committees

• Heejong Yi, University of Delaware, PhD, expected 2005.
• Heidi Altmann, University of Delaware, PhD, expected 2005.
• Pamela Ann Burton, University of Delaware, Psychology, PhD, 2004. Electrophysiological Evidence of Interactive Object-Based and Space-Based Attention Mechanisms
• Al Waleed Al Suhaibani, Univeristy of Delaware, PhD, 2004. An Experimental Investigation of Prosodic Domain Circumscription in the Arabic Broken Plurals
• Khara Pence, University of Delaware, PhD, 2004. The Input Surrounding Action Verbs in Speech to Infants and Toddlers
• Nianwen Xue, University of Delaware, PhD, 2002. Defining and Automatically Identifying Words in Chinese.
• Preston Becker, University of Delaware, PhD, 2001. Pronouns that they can't get rid of them.
• Jiraporn Intrasai, University of Delaware, PhD, 2001. Topics in Thai Tonology.
• Hong Zhou, University of Toronto, PhD, 1999. Vowel systems in Mandarin languages.
• Sirintip Seubsunk, University of Delaware, PhD, 1999. The pronunciation of English stop-liquid and stop-glide clusters in word-initial position by native speakers of two different dialects of Thai.
• Steve Hoskins, University of Delaware, PhD, 1997. On the phonology and phonetics of broad and narrow focus in English.
• John Halle, Columbia University, Doctor of Music Arts, 1997. A Grammar of Improvised Text setting.
• Jeff Lidz, University of Delaware, PhD, 1996. Dimensions of reflexivity.
• Thomas Klein, University of Delaware, PhD, 1995. Umlaut in Optimality Theory.
• Vanya Hristova, University of Delaware, PhD, 1994. Nominal vowel/zero alternations in Bulgarian and Russian.

Professional Activities

• Department of Linguistics, University of Delaware
  • Director of Graduate Studies, 1994 -1999
  • Graduate Studies Committee, 1992 - present
  • Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1992 - 1996
• University of Delaware
  • CIRPM committee 2000 - present
  • CTE High technology committee 2000 - 2002
  • Chair, Faculty Senate Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1997 - 1998
  • Faculty Senate Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1996 - 1998
  • Faculty Senate Representative, 1993 - 1998
• Linguistic Society of America
  • Chair, Program Committee, 2003
  • Program Committee, 2001 - 2003
• Publishers
  • General Editor, Oxford University Press, Oxford Surveys In Phonology and Phonetics, 2005 - present
• Journals
  • Editorial Board, Korean Linguistics, 2003 - present
  • Editorial Board, Linguistic Inquiry, 2000 - present
  • Associate Editor, Phonology, 1997 - present
  • Editor, Linguistic Inquiry Squibs and Discussion, 1996 - 1999 (with Peter Cole and Gabriella Hermon)
• Agencies
  • Member, Linguistics Review Panel, National Science Foundation, 2004 - 2006
  • Member, Human and Social Dynamics Instrumentation and Data Resource Panel, National Science Foundation, 2004
• Reviewer:
  • Journals: Cognition, International Journal of American Linguistics, Korean Linguistics, Language, Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Phonology
  • Agencies: National Science Foundation, Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Canada, Arts and Humanities Research Board, UK US Civilian Research and Development Foundation
  • Publishers: Blackwell Publishing, Cambridge University Press, Mouton de Gruyter
  • Proceedings: DIMACS Workshop on Human Language, Princeton University, 1992. Workshop on Constraints and Derivations in Phonology, University of Essex, 1995.
  • Conferences: Student Conference in Linguistics, North East Linguistics Society, West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics

Publications

Books and Monographs

• Laryngeal Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (under contract, with Peter Avery)

Articles in Refereed Journals

• Poverty of the Stimulus Arguments in Phonology. Submitted to The Linguistic Review.
• Remarks on Language Play. Submitted to Linguistic Inquiry. (with Eric Raimy)
• A Simple Proof that Optimality Theory is Computationally Intractable. Submitted to Linguistic Inquiry.
• Combinatorics for Metrical Feet. Submitted to Research on Language and Computation.
• Speech Perception is not Isomorphic to Phonology: The case of Perceptual Epenthesis. Submitted to Language and Speech (with Baris Kabak)
• Insights into Reduplication from Sanskrit. Submitted to Linguistic Inquiry. (with Eric Raimy)
• The Perception of Handshapes in American Sign Language. To appear in Memory and Cognition (with Stephanie Baker, Roberta Golinkoff and Laura Petitto)
• Stress and Length in Hixkaryana. The Linguistic Review. 2000, 17; 2 - 4: 199 - 218 (with Morris Halle).
• Clarifying Opacity. The Linguistic Review. 2000, 17; 2 - 4: 337 - 350.
• Prerequisites for a Theory of Diachronic Adaptation. Zeitschrift fuer Sprachwissenschaft. 1999, 18;1: 212 - 215. (with B. Elan Dresher)
• Perceptual and phonetic experiments on American English dialect identification. Journal of Language and Social Psychology. 1999, 18;1: 10 - 30. (with Thomas Purnell and John Baugh)
• A phonological perspective on locus equations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. April 1998, 21: 270 - 271.
• Tiberian Hebrew Spirantization and Phonological Derivations. Linguistic Inquiry. Winter 1998, 29: 37 - 73.
• Metrical Tone and the Elsewhere Condition. Rivista di Linguistica. 1997, 9;1: 129 - 156. (with Thomas Purnell).
• A Response to Alan Prince's Letter in Issue 2-6. GLOT International. 3-1: 1, 22. (with Morris Halle)
• Open and Closed Feet in Old English. Linguistic Inquiry. Summer 1994, 25: 522 - 533.

Chapters in Books

• Calculating Metrical Structure. In Charles Cairns and Eric Raimy (editors) MIT Press. (to appear)
• Text and Meter and Tune. In Gilbert Youmans (editor) Words and Music. (to appear)
• Reduplicative Economy. In Bert Vaux (editor) Rules and Constraints in Contemporary Phonological Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. to appear. (with Eric Raimy)
• Laryngeal dimensions, completion and enhancement. In T. A. Hall and U. Kleinhanz (editors) Studies in Distinctive Feature Theory. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2001, 41 - 70. (with Peter Avery)
• Phonological Derivations and Historical Changes in Hebrew Spirantization. In Iggy Roca (editor) Derivations and constraints in phonology. Oxford University Press, 1997, 367 - 392.
• /r/, Hypercorrection and the Elsewhere Condition. In Iggy Roca (editor) Derivations and constraints in phonology. Oxford University Press, 1997, 331 - 348. (with Morris Halle)
• General Properties of Stress and Metrical Structure. In John Goldsmith (editor) / A Handbook of Phonological Theory. Oxford: Blackwells, 1995, 403 - 443. Also in Eric Ristad (editor) / Language Computations. New York: AMS Press, 37 - 73. 1994. (with Morris Halle)

Conference Proceedings

• What do Korean speakers learn about English fricatives? Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics X. 2004. 48 - 59. (with Sun-Ah Son)
• Markedness and Phonetic Implementation of Tone in North Kyungsang Korean. Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 2004. 197 - 208. (with Woohyeok Chang)
• Syllabically conditoned perceptual epenthesis. Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 2004. 233 - 244. (with Baris Kabak)
• Flaps in American English and Korean: An Acoustic and Perceptual Study. Generative Grammar in a Broader Perspective. Proceedings of the 4th GLOW in Asia. Seoul: Hankook. 2003. 187 - 208. (with Eun-Kyung Sung)
• The Perception and Production of English stop consonants by Thai Children and Adults. Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development. 2003. (with Patcharee Imsri)
• Further Opacity Issues: Spontaneous L2 Opacity. Proceedings of the 2002 Linguistic Society of Korean International Summer Conference. 2002. Volume II: 259 - 265.
• Speech Perception and Production of English Final Voicing Contrast by Korean Speakers. Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics IX. 2001. 117 - 129. (with Woohyeok Chang)
• The Status of High Tones in North Kyungsang Korean: Evidence from a Phonetic Study. Proceedings of the 2000 Seoul International Conference on Language and Computation. 2000. 144 - 153 (with Woohyeok Chang)
• On Syllable-based multiple opacities. Proceedings of the 2000 International Workshop on Generative Grammar. 2000. 61 - 74. (with Sun-Hoi Kim)
• The Phonology-Syntax interface in North Kyungsang Korean. Proceedings of the 24th Penn Linguistics Colloquium. 2000. 111 - 122. (with Sun-Hoi Kim)
• Chains and Phono-Logical Form. Proceedings of 22nd Penn Linguistics Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics. 1998. 5;1: 109-125. (with Jeffrey Lidz)
• The metrical tone in North Kyungsang Korean. Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics VII. 1997. 106 - 120. (with Sun-Hoi Kim).
• Enclitic tonal patterns in North Kyungsang Korean and Tokyo Japanese. Proceedings of the Fourth Seoul International Conference on Linguistics. 1997. 305 - 314. (with Sun-Hoi Kim).
• A Minimalist Approach to Reduplication in Optimality Theory. Proceedings of the 27th Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society. 1997. 369 - 382. (with Eric Raimy)
• Sukuma Accent. Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society. 1995. (with Thomas Purnell)
• Stress and Glottalized Sonorants in Shuswap. Proceedings of the Canadian Linguistics Association Meeting. also in: Papers for the International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages. 1991.
• Stress in Interior Salish. Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society. 1991.
• An Acoustic Study of Vowel Lengthening and Pausing in Syntactic Timing. Proceeding of the Twelfth International Conference on Acoustics. 1986. (with Peter Avery, Walter Cichocki, Keren Rice and John Archibald).

Book Reviews

• Review of Francois Dell and Mohammed Elmedlaoui, Syllables in Tashlhiyt Berber and Moroccan Arabic In preparation for Language
• Review of John McCarthy, Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader In preparation for Language
• Review of Diana Archangeli and Douglas Pulleyblank, Grounded Phonology Journal of Linguistics, 1998, 489-493

Other Publications

• A Reanalysis of Indonesian Stress Massuchessets Institute of Technology Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 21, 1994, 1-9. (with Morris Halle)
• The Computation of Prosody, MIT Ph.D. dissertation, distributed by MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. 1992.
• Governing Gutturals Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, 1988 (with Gabrielle Bernstein)

Presentations

Invited Presentations

• Phonology is Part of the Problem. University of Maryland, College Park, February 2005.
• Stress Machine Battlebots. University of Connecticut, November 2004.
• Stress Machine Battlebots. University of Pennsylvania, September 2004.
• Formal foundations for metrical computations. North American Phonology Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, April 2004.
• Metrical computations. City University of New York, February 2004.
• Testing the P-Map. Schloss Freudental, Konstanz, January 2004.
• What's not in the signal. Schloss Freudental, Konstanz, July 2003.
• Spontaneous Opacity. Linguistics Colloquium, University of Delaware, September 2002.
• Further Opacity Issues: Spontaneous L2 Opacity. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Korea, Seoul, August 2002.
• Spontaneous Chain Shifts. Schloss Freudental, Konstanz, July 2002.
• Dialect, Perception and Phonology. City University of New York, November 2001.
• Spontaneous Chain Shifts. Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, April 2001.
• The Phonology-Syntax interface in North Kyungsang Korean. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 2000. (with Sun-Hoi Kim)
• Voicing in Germanic: features, phasing and enhancement. The Representation-Rule-Constraint Confluence Workshop, University of Wisconsin, Madison, November 1999.
• Phonological Opacities. University of California at Irvine, May 1999.
• Reduplication and underapplication. Phonology 2000 Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 1999. (with Eric Raimy)
• Phonological Opacities. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, April 1999.
• A modular approach to English /r/. University of Pennsylvania, February 1999.
• Segholate Opacities. University of Toronto, January 1999.
• Segholate Opacities. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November 1998.
• Simplicity. Annual Montral-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop. University of Ottawa, February 1998.
• Don't Use that Tone of Voice with Me! Swarthmore College, November 1996
• Maximizing a 'Minimalist' Argument. University of Pennsylvania, February 1996.
• Maximizing a 'Minimalist' Argument. Workshop on Derivations and Constraints in Phonology, University of Essex, September 1995.
• /r/, Hypercorrection and the Elsewhere Condition. Workshop on Derivations and Constraints in Phonology, University of Essex, September 1995. (with Morris Halle)
• Metrical Monopoles. University of Essex, August 1995.
• Grammar Delicacy in Stress Theory. Maryland Mayfest Learnability Workshop, University of Maryland, College Park, May 1995.
• Teaching Computers to Talk and Listen More Naturally. University of Delaware Research Foundation Annual Luncheon Meeting. University of Delaware, January 1995.
• Optimality Theory and Exceptional Stress in Polish. Brown University, February 1994.
• Prosodic Contrasts and Optimality Theory. Conference on Contrast in Phonology, Annual Montral-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop. University of Toronto, February 1994.
• Phonology and Speech Recognition. Bell-Northern Reseach/INRS, Montreal, May 1993.
• Computing Stress with Simplified Bracketed Grids. Linguistics Colloquium, McGill University, April 1993
• The Representation of Stress. Cognitive Science Colloquium, Johns Hopkins University, February 1993.
• General Properties of Stress and Metrical Structure. DIMACS Workshop on Human Language, Princeton University, March 1992. (with Morris Halle)

Refereed Conference Presentations

• A Bayesian Account of Loanword Adaptations. Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, Cambridge, August 2005. (submitted)
• Canadian Raising, Opacity and Rephonemicization. Canadian English in the Global Context. University of Toronto. January, 2005
• Flaps in American English and Korean: Acoustic and Perceptual Studies. The 4th GLOW in Asia meeting, Seoul, July 2003. (with Eun-Kyung Sung)
• What do Korean speakers learn about English fricatives? Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, Cambridge, July 2003. (with Sun-Ah Son)
• Text and Meter and Tune. Words and Music Conference. University of Missouri, April 2003.
• Markedness and Phonetic Implementation of Tone in North Kyungsang Korean. Berkeley Linguistics Society Meeting, University of California at Berkeley, February 2003. (with Woohyeok Chang)
• Syllabically conditoned perceptual epenthesis. Berkeley Linguistics Society Meeting, University of California at Berkeley, February 2003. (with Baris Kabak)
• Phonological Representations and the Delphic Oracle. Annual Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto and York University, Toronto, February 2003. (with Eric Raimy)
• The perception of English Stop Consonants by Thai Children and Adults. Boston University Conference on Language Development, November 2002. (with Patcharee Imsri)
• On the nature of "voicing" in Japanese. Annual Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop, McGill University, Montreal, February 2002. (with Peter Avery)
• Speech Perception and Production of English Final Voicing Contrast by Korean Speakers. Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, Cambridge, July 2001. (with Woohyeok Chang)
• Acquisition and the minimal pair conundrum. Holland Institute of Linguistics Phonology Conference 5 (HILP5), Potsdam University, January 2001. (with Peter Avery)
• The Status of High Tones in North Kyungsang Korean: Evidence from a Phonetic Study. The 2000 Seoul International Conference on Language and Computation, Seoul, July 2000. (with Woohyeok Chang)
• Syllable-based multiple opacities. International Workshop on Generative Grammar, Seoul, July 2000 (with Sun-Hoi Kim)
• Tonal representation and consonant-tone interactions. Tromso Tone Symposium, Universitet i Tromso, June 2000. (with Peter Avery)
• Some issues in the acquisition of contrast. North American Phonology Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, April 2000. (with Peter Avery)
• The Phonology-Syntax interface in North Kyungsang Korean. 24th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania. February 2000. (with Sun-Hoi Kim)
• On the laryngeal specification of tone. Annual Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto, February 2000. (with Peter Avery)
• The laryngeal phonology of Korean. Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Chicago, January 2000. (with Peter Avery)
• Laryngeal dimensions and phonetic completion. Conference on Distinctive Feature Theory. Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, October 1999. (with Peter Avery)
• Opacity, Sympathy and Derivations. Annual meeting of the Generative Linguists of the Old World, Tilburg, April 1998.
• Chains and Phono-logical form. 22nd annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania, March 1998. (with Jeffrey Lidz)
• Perceptual and phonetic experiments on American English dialect identification. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York City, January 1998. (with Thomas Purnell and John Baugh)
• Enclitic Tonal Patterns in North Kyungsang Korean and Tokyo Japanese. The Fourth Seoul International Conference on Linguistics, Seoul, Korea, August, 1997. (with Sun-Hoi Kim)
• Metrical Tone in North Kyungsang Korean. The Seventh Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, Harvard University, July, 1997. (with Sun-Hoi Kim)
• Against Lexicon Optimization. Annual Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto, February 1997.
• A Minimalist Approach to Reduplication in Optimality Theory. Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society, McGill University, Montreal, October 1996. (with Eric Raimy).
• Sukuma Accent. Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, University of Chicago, April 1995. (with Thomas Purnell).
• Dressing Up a 'Bare' Argument. Annual Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop, University of Ottawa, February 1995.
• Optimality, Alignment and Polish Stress. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, January 1994.
• A Mechanism for Phonological Feature Licensing. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association, Carleton University, May 1993. (with Anton Bures)
• Some Properties of Simplified Bracketed Grids. Annual Meeting of the Generative Linguists of the Old World, Lund, April 1993.
• Stress and Glottalized Sonorants in Shuswap. 26th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, University of British Columbia, August 1991.
• Stress and Glottalized Sonorants in Shuswap. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association, Queen's University, May 1991.
• Stress in Interior Salish. Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, University of Chicago, April 1991.
• Governing Gutturals. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association, University of Windsor, May 1988. (with Gabrielle Bernstein)
• Syntactic Timing and the Metrical Grid. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association, McMaster University, Hamilton, May 1987. (with Peter Avery, Walter Cichocki and Keren Rice).
• Vowel Lengthening and Syntactic Timing. Conference at the Experimental Phonetics Lab, University of Toronto, March 1987 (with Peter Avery, Walter Cichocki and Keren Rice).
• An Acoustic Study of Vowel Lengthening and Pausing in Syntactic Timing. Twelfth International Conference on Acoustics, Toronto, July 1986. (with Peter Avery, Walter Cichocki, Keren Rice and John Archibald)

Courses Taught

• University of Delaware
• LING101: Introduction to Linguistics
• LING 253: Laboratory Phonetics
• ENGL/LING 390: English Linguistics
• LING 407/607: Introduction to Phonology
• LING 433/633: Acoustic Phonetics
• LING 608: Advanced Phonology
• LING 612: Introduction to Morphology
• LING 861: Topics in Phonology
• LING 880: Seminar in Second Language Acquisition
• Univeristy of Toronto
• LIN 1122: Topics in Phonology
• LIN 228: Phonetics
• York Univeristy
• AS/COGS/PHIL XXXX: Philosophy of Language (Fall 2005)
• AS/COGS/LING/PHIL XXXX: Language and Mind (Spring 2006)