William James Idsardi

Research Interests

Phonology and its connections to other components of grammar, mind and brain (phonetics, speech perception, 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

• Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, University of Maryland, August 2005 - present
• Fulbright-York University Distinguished Chair in Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University, January 2006 - May 2006
• Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Program in Cognitive Science, University of Delaware, September 1998 - August 2005
• Fulbright Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto, January - August 1999
• 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 - August 2005
• Acting Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of Delaware, September - December 1999; September 2000 - August 2002

Other Appointments

• Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland, March 2008 - present

Grants and Awards

• (submitted) Cortical Mechanisms in Speech Perception: MEG Studies (David Poeppel, Project Director) NIH R01 renewal
• Cortical Mechanisms in Speech Perception: MEG Studies (David Poeppel, Project Director) NIH R56
• 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.

Current Doctoral Students

• Nuria Abdulsabur, University of Maryland, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, PhD program (co-supervisor with David Poeppel)
• Joshua Riley, University of Maryland, Linguistics, PhD program (co-supervisor with David Poeppel)
• Ariane Rhone, University of Maryland, Linguistics, PhD program (co-supervisor with David Poeppel)
• So-one Hwang, University of Maryland, Linguistics, PhD program (co-supervisor with Juan Uriagereka)
• Gregory Cogan, University of Maryland, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, PhD program (co-supervisor with David Poeppel)
• Philip J. Monahan, University of Maryland, Linguistics, PhD program (co-supervisor with David Poeppel)
• Diogo Almeida, University of Maryland, Linguistics, PhD program (co-supervisor with David Poeppel)
• Karthik Durvasula, University of Delaware, Linguistics, PhD, expected 2007 (co-supervisor with Peter Cole)

Dissertations Supervised

• Ngeethai Yap, University of Delaware, Linguistics, PhD, 2006. Modeling Syllable Theory with Finite-State Transducers
  Current position: Department of English Language, Universiti Putra Malaysia
• Sun-Ah Son, University of Delaware, Linguistics, PhD, 2005. The acquisition of English fricatives by Korean speakers of English as a Second Language.
  Current position: Department of English Language and Literature, Hoseo University, Korea
• Eun-Kyung Sung, University of Delaware, Linguistics, PhD, 2003. (co-advisor with Irene Vogel) The production and perception of flaps in Korean and English.
  Current position: Cyber University of Foreign Studies, Korea
• Baris Kabak, University of Delaware, Linguistics, PhD, 2003. Phonology and Second Language Speech Perception.
  Current position: Junior Professor, University of Konstanz
• Woohyeok Chang, University of Delaware, Linguistics, PhD, 2003. The Use of Phonetic Evidence to Resolve Phonological Controversies.
  Current Position: Dankook University, Korea
• Patcharee Imsri, University of Delaware, Linguistics, PhD, 2003. The perception of English Stop Consonants by Thai Children and Adults.
  Current position: Institute of Liberal Arts, Walailak University, Thailand
• Stephanie Baker, University of Delaware, Linguistics, PhD, 2002. (co-advisor with Roberta Golinkoff) The Perception of Handshape in American Sign Language.
  Current position: Post-doc, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia
• Eric Raimy, University of Delaware, Linguistics, PhD, 1999. Representing Reduplication.
  Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of English,University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Sun-Hoi Kim, Univeristy of Delaware, Department of Linguistics, PhD, 1999. The Metrical Computation in Tone Assignment.
  Current position: Chungang University, Korea
• Thomas Purnell, University of Delaware, Linguistics, PhD, 1997. Principles and Parameters of Phonological Rules: Evidence from Tone Languages.
  Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Guangsheng Zhang, University of Delaware, Linguistics, PhD, 1996. (co-advisor with Tim Bunnell) Foot-timing and word-timing in English.

Other Dissertation Committees

• Yue Zhang, University of Maryland, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, PhD program
• Hyuk Oh, University of Maryland, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, PhD program
• Kevin Donaldson, University of Maryland, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, PhD program
• Julian Jenkins, University of Maryland, Biology, PhD program
• Ardalan Parsa, University of Maryland, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, PhD program
• Kenn White, University of Maryland, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, PhD program
• Tarun Pruthi, University of Maryland, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, 2007. Analysis, Vocal-tract Modeling and Automatic Detection of Vowel Nasalization
• Om Deshmukh, University of Maryland, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, 2006. Synergy of acoustic-phonetics and auditory modeling towards robust speech recognition
• Robert Fiorentino, University of Maryland, Linguistics, PhD, 2006. Lexical Structure and the Nature of Linguistic Representations
• Heidi Altmann, University of Delaware, Linguistics, PhD, 2006. The perception and production of second language stress: a cross-linguistic experimental study
• 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, Linguistics, PhD, 2004. An Experimental Investigation of Prosodic Domain Circumscription in the Arabic Broken Plurals
• Khara Pence, University of Delaware, Educational Studies, PhD, 2004. The Input Surrounding Action Verbs in Speech to Infants and Toddlers
• Nianwen Xue, University of Delaware, Linguistics, PhD, 2002. Defining and Automatically Identifying Words in Chinese.
• Preston Becker, University of Delaware, Linguistics, PhD, 2001. Pronouns that they can't get rid of them.
• Jiraporn Intrasai, University of Delaware, Linguistics, PhD, 2001. Topics in Thai Tonology.
• Hong Zhou, University of Toronto, Linguistics, PhD, 1999. Vowel systems in Mandarin languages.
• Sirintip Seubsunk, University of Delaware, Linguistics, 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, Linguistics, PhD, 1997. On the phonology and phonetics of broad and narrow focus in English.
• John Halle, Columbia University, Music, Doctor of Music Arts, 1997. A Grammar of Improvised Text setting.
• Jeff Lidz, University of Delaware, Linguistics, PhD, 1996. Dimensions of reflexivity.
• Thomas Klein, University of Delaware, Linguistics, PhD, 1995. Umlaut in Optimality Theory.
• Vanya Hristova, University of Delaware, Linguistics, PhD, 1994. Nominal vowel/zero alternations in Bulgarian and Russian.

Other Research Supervision

• Elika Bergelson, University of Maryland, David Baggett Fellow, 2007-2008 (co-supervisor with Jeffrey Lidz)
• Rachel Shorey, University of Maryland, David Baggett Fellow, 2006-2007
• Matthew Winn, University of Delaware, McNeil Scholar, 2004-2005

Professional Activities

• Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland
  • Director of Graduate Studies, January 2007 - June 2007
• University of Maryland
  • Educational Affairs Committee, University Senate, 2007 - present
• Department of Linguistics, University of Delaware
  • Director of Graduate Studies, 1994 -1999
  • Graduate Studies Committee, 1992 - 2005
  • Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1992 - 1996
• University of Delaware
  • CIRPM committee 2000 - 2005
  • 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, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 2008 - present
  • Editorial Board, Journal of Linguistics 2006 - present
  • 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 Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Canada, Arts and Humanities Research Board, UK US Civilian Research and Development Foundation US Air Force
  • 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 Penn Linguistics Colloquium

Publications

Books and Monographs

• Phonetics: Critical Concepts. Routledge. (under contract)
• Precedence Based Phonology. Mouton de Gruyter. (under contract, with Eric Raimy)
• Laryngeal Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (under contract, with Peter Avery)

Articles in Refereed Journals

• Hwang, So-one, Monahan, Phillip J., Idsardi, William J. (submitted) The perceptual consequences of voicing mismatch in obstruent clusters. Phonology
• Idsardi, William J. (submitted) Combinatorics for Metrical Feet. Biolinguistics.
• Winn, Matthew and Idsardi, William J. (submitted) Musical evidence regarding trochaic inversion. Language and Literature
• Poeppel, David, Idsardi, William and van Wassenhove, Virginie (2007) Speech perception at the interface of neurobiology and linguistics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London doi:10.1098/rstb.2007.2160.
• Kabak, Baris and Idsardi, William J. (2007) Speech Perception is not Isomorphic to Phonology: The case of Perceptual Epenthesis. Language and Speech 50: 23-52.
• Idsardi, William J. (2006) Canadian Raising, Opacity and Rephonemicization. The Canadian Journal of Linguistics 51: 119-126.
• Kazanina, Nina, Phillips, Colin and Idsardi, William J. (2006) The influence of meaning on the perception of speech sounds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103: 11381-11386.
• Idsardi, William J. (2006) A Simple Proof that Optimality Theory is Computationally Intractable. Linguistic Inquiry 37: 271-275.
• Baker, Stephanie A., Idsardi, William J., Golinkoff, Roberta M. and Petitto, Laura-Ann. (2005) The Perception of Handshapes in American Sign Language. Memory and Cognition 33: 887-904.
• Halle, Morris and Idsardi, William J. (2000) Stress and Length in Hixkaryana. The Linguistic Review. 17: 199 - 218
• Idsardi, William J. (2000) Clarifying Opacity. The Linguistic Review. 17: 337 - 350.
• Dresher, B. Elan and Idsardi, William J. (1999) Prerequisites for a Theory of Diachronic Adaptation. Zeitschrift fuer Sprachwissenschaft. 18: 212 - 215.
• Purnell, Thomas C., Idsardi, William J. and Baugh, John. (1999) Perceptual and phonetic experiments on American English dialect identification. Journal of Language and Social Psychology. 18: 10 - 30.
• Idsardi, William J. (1998) A phonological perspective on locus equations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 21: 270 - 271.
• Idsardi, William J. (1998) Tiberian Hebrew Spirantization and Phonological Derivations. Linguistic Inquiry. 29: 37 - 73.
• Idsardi, William J. and Purnell, Thomas C. (1997) Metrical Tone and the Elsewhere Condition. Rivista di Linguistica. 9: 129 - 156.
• Halle, Morris and Idsardi, William J. (1996) A Response to Alan Prince's Letter in Issue 2-6. GLOT International. 3-1: 1, 22.
• Idsardi, William J. (1994) Open and Closed Feet in Old English. Linguistic Inquiry. 25: 522 - 533.

Chapters in Books

• Dillon, Brian W. and Idsardi, William J. (in preparation) Selecting Vowel Features. In George N. Clements and Rachid Ridouane (Editor) Where do Features Come From?
• Idsardi, William J. (in press) Calculating metrical structure. In Charles Cairns and Eric Raimy (Editors) Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations in Phonological Theory. Cambridge: MIT Press
• Idsardi, William and Raimy, Eric. (in press) Reduplicative Economy. In Bert Vaux and Andrew Nevins (Editors) Rules and Constraints in Contemporary Phonological Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Avery, Peter and Idsardi, William J. (2001) Laryngeal dimensions, completion and enhancement. In Tracy A. Hall and Ursula Kleinhanz (Editors) Studies in Distinctive Feature Theory. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 41 - 70.
• Idsardi, William J. (1997) Phonological Derivations and Historical Changes in Hebrew Spirantization. In Iggy Roca (editor) Derivations and constraints in phonology. Oxford University Press, 367 - 392.
• Halle, Morris and Idsardi, William J. (1997) /r/, Hypercorrection and the Elsewhere Condition. In Iggy Roca (editor) Derivations and constraints in phonology. Oxford University Press, 331 - 348.
• Halle, Morris and Idsardi, William J. (1995) General Properties of Stress and Metrical Structure. In John Goldsmith (editor) A Handbook of Phonological Theory. Oxford: Blackwells, 403 - 443. Also in Eric Ristad (editor) / Language Computations. New York: AMS Press, 37 - 73.

Conference Proceedings

• Monahan, Philip J, Takahashi, Eri, Nakao, Chizuru and Idsardi, William. (in press). Not All Epenthetic Contexts are Equal: Differential Effects in Japanese Illusory Vowel Perception. To appear in Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol. 17, ed. S. Iwasaki. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
• Baier, Rebecca, Idsardi, William J. and Lidz, Jeffrey. (2007) Two-month-olds are sensitive to lip rounding in dynamic and static speech events. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing. The Netherlands.
• Idsardi, William J. (2007) Some MEG correlates for distinctive features. Proceedings of 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. http://www.icphs2007.de/conference/Papers/1745/1745.pdf
• Idsardi, William J. and Son, Sunah. (2004) What do Korean speakers learn about English fricatives? Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics X. 48 - 59.
• Idsardi, William J. and Chang, Woohyeok. (2004) Markedness and Phonetic Implementation of Tone in North Kyungsang Korean. Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 197 - 208.
• Kabak, Baris and Idsardi, William J. (2004) Syllabically conditoned perceptual epenthesis. Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 233 - 244.
• Idsardi, William J. and Sung, Eun-Kung. (2003) 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. 187 - 208.
• Idsardi, William J. and Imsri, Patcharee. (2003) The Perception and Production of English stop consonants by Thai Children and Adults. Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development.
• Idsardi, William J. (2002) Further Opacity Issues: Spontaneous L2 Opacity. Proceedings of the 2002 Linguistic Society of Korea International Summer Conference. Volume II: 259 - 265.
• Idsardi, William J. and Chang, Woohyeok. (2001) Speech Perception and Production of English Final Voicing Contrast by Korean Speakers. Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics IX. 117 - 129.
• Idsardi, William J. and Chang, Woohyeok. (2000) 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. 144 - 153.
• Idsardi, William J. and Kim, Sun-Hoi. (2000) On Syllable-based multiple opacities. Proceedings of the 2000 International Workshop on Generative Grammar. 61 - 74.
• Idsardi, William J. and Kim, Sun-Hoi. (2000) The Phonology-Syntax interface in North Kyungsang Korean. Proceedings of the 24th Penn Linguistics Colloquium. 111 - 122.
• Lidz, Jeffrey. and Idsardi, William J. (1998) Chains and Phono-Logical Form. Proceedings of 22nd Penn Linguistics Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics. 5-1: 109-125.
• Idsardi, William J. and Kim, Sun-Hoi. (1997) The metrical tone in North Kyungsang Korean. Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics VII. 106 - 120.
• Idsardi, William J. and Kim, Sun-Hoi. (1997) Enclitic tonal patterns in North Kyungsang Korean and Tokyo Japanese. Proceedings of the Fourth Seoul International Conference on Linguistics. 305 - 314.
• Raimy, Eric and Idsardi, William J. (1997) A Minimalist Approach to Reduplication in Optimality Theory. Proceedings of the 27th Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society. 369 - 382.
• Idsardi, William J. and Purnell, Thomas C. (1995) Sukuma Accent. Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society.
• Idsardi, William J. (1991) 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.
• Idsardi, William J. (1991) Stress in Interior Salish. Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society.
• Avery, Peter, Cichocki, Walter, Idsardi, William, Rice, Keren and Archibald, John. (1986) An Acoustic Study of Vowel Lengthening and Pausing in Syntactic Timing. Proceeding of the Twelfth International Conference on Acoustics.

Book Reviews

• Idsardi, W. J. (2006) Three books on language: pro-Noam, anti-Noam, net-Noam. Artificial Intelligence 170: 1234-1236
• Idsardi, W. J. (1998) Review of Diana Archangeli and Douglas Pulleyblank, Grounded Phonology Journal of Linguistics, 489-493

Other Publications

• Idsardi, William J. (2008) Stress. Entry in Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Halle, M. and Idsardi, W. J. (1994) A Reanalysis of Indonesian Stress Massuchessets Institute of Technology Working Papers in Linguistics, 21: 1-9.
• Idsardi, W. J. (1992) The Computation of Prosody, MIT Ph.D. dissertation, distributed by MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
• Bernstein, G. and Idsardi, W. J. (1988) Governing Gutturals Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics,

Presentations

Invited Presentations

• Idsardi, William J. (2007) Some MEG correlates for distinctive features. 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. SaarbrŸcken, Germany. August 2007.
• Idsardi, William J. (2007) Annual Maryland Mayfest, University of Maryland, May 2007.
• Idsardi, William J. (2007) Finding Features, Linguistics Colloquium, University of Delaware, April 2007.
• Idsardi, W. J. and Shorey, R. (2007) Unwinding morphology, Conference on Precedence in Phonology, City University of New York, January 2007.
• Idsardi, William J. (2006) Making Phonological Decisions, Annual Maryland Mayfest, University of Maryland, May 2006
• Idsardi, William J. (2006) Making Phonological Decisions, City University of New York, April 2006
• Idsardi, William J. (2006) Fulbright-York University Distinguished Chair Lecture, York University, February 2006.
• Idsardi, William J. (2005) Phonology is Part of the Problem, University of Maryland, College Park, February 2005.
• Idsardi, William J. (2004) Stress Machine Battlebots, University of Connecticut, November 2004.
• Idsardi, William J. (2004) Stress Machine Battlebots, University of Pennsylvania, September 2004.
• Idsardi, William J. (2004) Formal foundations for metrical computations, North American Phonology Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, April 2004.
• Idsardi, William J. (2004) Metrical computations, City University of New York, February 2004.
• Idsardi, William J. (2004) Testing the P-Map, Schloss Freudental, Konstanz, January 2004.
• Idsardi, William J. (2003) What's not in the signal, Schloss Freudental, Konstanz, July 2003.
• Idsardi, William J. (2002) Spontaneous Opacity, Linguistics Colloquium, University of Delaware, September 2002.
• Idsardi, William J. (2002) Further Opacity Issues: Spontaneous L2 Opacity, Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Korea, Seoul, August 2002.
• Idsardi, William J. (2002) Spontaneous Chain Shifts, Schloss Freudental, Konstanz, July 2002.
• Idsardi, William J. (2001) Dialect, Perception and Phonology, City University of New York, November 2001.
• Idsardi, William J. (2001) Spontaneous Chain Shifts, Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, April 2001.
• Kim, Sun-Hoi and Idsardi, William J. (2000) The Phonology-Syntax interface in North Kyungsang Korean, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 2000.
• Idsardi, William J. (1999) Voicing in Germanic: features, phasing and enhancement, The Representation-Rule-Constraint Confluence Workshop, University of Wisconsin, Madison, November 1999.
• Idsardi, William J. (1999) Phonological Opacities, University of California at Irvine, May 1999.
• Idsardi, William J. and Raimy, Eric. (1999) Reduplication and underapplication, Phonology 2000 Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 1999.
• Idsardi, William J. (1999) Phonological Opacities, West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, April 1999.
• Idsardi, William J. (1999) A modular approach to English /r/, University of Pennsylvania, February 1999.
• Idsardi, William J. (1999) Segholate Opacities, University of Toronto, January 1999.
• Idsardi, William J. (1998) Segholate Opacities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November 1998.
• Idsardi, William J. (1998) Simplicity, Annual Montral-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop. University of Ottawa, February 1998.
• Idsardi, William J. (1996) Don't Use that Tone of Voice with Me! Swarthmore College, November 1996.
• Idsardi, William J. (1996) Maximizing a 'Minimalist' Argument, University of Pennsylvania, February 1996.
• Idsardi, William J. (1995) Maximizing a 'Minimalist' Argument, Workshop on Derivations and Constraints in Phonology, University of Essex, September 1995.
• Halle, Morris and Idsardi, William J. (1995) /r/, Hypercorrection and the Elsewhere Condition, Workshop on Derivations and Constraints in Phonology, University of Essex, September 1995.
• Idsardi, William J. (1995) Metrical Monopoles, University of Essex, August 1995.
• Idsardi, William J. (1995) Grammar Delicacy in Stress Theory, Maryland Mayfest Learnability Workshop, University of Maryland, College Park, May 1995.
• Idsardi, William J. (1995) Teaching Computers to Talk and Listen More Naturally, University of Delaware Research Foundation Annual Luncheon Meeting. University of Delaware, January 1995.
• Idsardi, William J. (1994) Optimality Theory and Exceptional Stress in Polish,. Brown University, February 1994.
• Idsardi, William J. (1994) Prosodic Contrasts and Optimality Theory,. Conference on Contrast in Phonology, Annual Montral-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop. University of Toronto, February 1994.
• Idsardi, William J. (1993) Phonology and Speech Recognition, Bell-Northern Reseach/INRS, Montreal, May 1993.
• Idsardi, William J. (1993) Computing Stress with Simplified Bracketed Grids, Linguistics Colloquium, McGill University, April 1993
• Idsardi, William J. (1993) The Representation of Stress, Cognitive Science Colloquium, Johns Hopkins University, February 1993.
• Halle, Morris and Idsardi, William J. (1992) General Properties of Stress and Metrical Structure, DIMACS Workshop on Human Language, Princeton University, March 1992.

Refereed Conference Presentations

• Dillon, Brian W. and Idsardi, William J. (submitted) Cognitive Science Society.
• Hwang, So-one, Monahan, Phillip J. and Idsardi, William J. (submitted) Evidence for the early detection of voicing mismatch in obstruent consonant clusters. Cognitive Science Society.
• Hwang, So-one, Monahan, Phillip J. and Idsardi, William J. (submitted) The detection of voicing mismatch in obstruent clusters during phonological processing. Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity Workshop. University of Munich
• Bergelson, Elika, de Souza, Kevin and Idsardi, William J. (2008) A neurophysiological study into the foundations of harmony. Music and Language II. Tufts University. July 2008.
• Son, Sunah and Idsardi, William J. (2008) How L2 acquisition sheds light on L1 representations. SLA and Applied Linguistics Workshop 18th International Congress of Linguists Korea University, Seoul, Korea. July 2008.
• Monahan, Philip J. and Idsardi, William J. (2008) Early Auditory Sensitivity to Formant Ratios in Vowel Perception: MEG Evidence. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. San Francisco. May 2008.
• Idsardi, William J., Monahan, Philip J. and de Souza, Kevin. (2008) MEG evidence for auditory restoration of fundamental pitch. Cognitive Neuroscience Society San Francisco. May 2008.
• Idsardi, William J. and Raimy, Eric. (2008) Three types of linearization and the temporal aspects of speech. 31st meeting of Generative Linguistics in the Old World. Newcastle upon Tyne. March 2008.
• Monahan, Philip J., Takahashi, Eri, Nakao, Chizuru and Idsardi, William. (2007). Not All Epenthetic Contexts Are Created Equal: Differential Effects in Japanese Illusory Vowel Perception. 17th Annual Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. University of California, Los Angeles. November 9-11, 2007.
• Monahan, Philip J and Idsardi, William. 2007. Neuromagnetic Evidence for the Early Computation of Formant Ratios in Vowel Normalization. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, CA. November 3-7, 2007.
• Monahan, Philip J and Idsardi, William. 2007. Neuromagnetic Evidence for the Early Computation of Formant Ratios in Vowel Normalization. Mid-America Linguistics Conference. University of Kansas. October 26-28, 2007.
• Baier, Rebecca, Idsardi, William J. and Lidz, Jeffrey. (2007) Two-month-olds are sensitive to lip rounding in dynamic and static speech events. International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing. The Netherlands. August 2007.
• Winn, Matthew and Idsardi, William J. (2007) Conference on Music and Language, University of Cambridge, May 2007.
• Idsardi, William J. (2007) Selecting Vowel Features, Annual Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop, March 2007.
• Idsardi, William J. (2006) A Bayesian Account of Loanword Adaptations, Linguistic Society of America, January 2006.
• Idsardi, William J. (2005) Canadian Raising, Opacity and Rephonemicization. Canadian English in the Global Context. University of Toronto. January, 2005
• Idsardi, William J. and Sung, Eun-Kung (2003) Flaps in American English and Korean: Acoustic and Perceptual Studies. The 4th GLOW in Asia meeting, Seoul, July 2003.
• Idsardi, William J. and Son, Sun-Ah. (2003) What do Korean speakers learn about English fricatives? Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, Cambridge, July 2003.
• Idsardi, William J. (2003) Text and Meter and Tune. Words and Music Conference. University of Missouri, April 2003.
• Idsardi, William J. and Chang, Woohyeok (2003) Markedness and Phonetic Implementation of Tone in North Kyungsang Korean. Berkeley Linguistics Society Meeting, University of California at Berkeley, February 2003.
• Kabak, Baris and Idsardi, William J. (2003) Syllabically conditoned perceptual epenthesis. Berkeley Linguistics Society Meeting, University of California at Berkeley, February 2003.
• Raimy, Eric and Idsardi, William J. (2003) Phonological Representations and the Delphic Oracle. Annual Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto and York University, Toronto, February 2003.
• Idsardi, William J. and Imsri, Patcharee (2002) The perception of English Stop Consonants by Thai Children and Adults. Boston University Conference on Language Development, November 2002.
• Avery, Peter and Idsardi, William J. (2002) On the nature of "voicing" in Japanese. Annual Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop, McGill University, Montreal, February 2002.
• Idsardi, William J. and Chang, Woohyeok (2001) Speech Perception and Production of English Final Voicing Contrast by Korean Speakers. Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, Cambridge, July 2001.
• Avery, Peter and Idsardi, William J. (2001) Acquisition and the minimal pair conundrum. Holland Institute of Linguistics Phonology Conference 5 (HILP5), Potsdam University, January 2001.
• Idsardi, William J. and Chang, Woohyeok. (2000) 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.
• Idsardi, William J. and Kim, Sun-Hoi. (2000) Syllable-based multiple opacities. International Workshop on Generative Grammar, Seoul, July 2000
• Avery, Peter and Idsardi, William J. (2000) Tonal representation and consonant-tone interactions. Tromso Tone Symposium, Universitet i Tromso, June 2000.
• Avery, Peter and Idsardi, William J. (2000) Some issues in the acquisition of contrast. North American Phonology Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, April 2000.
• Idsardi, William J. and Kim, Sun-Hoi. (2000) The Phonology-Syntax interface in North Kyungsang Korean. 24th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania. February 2000.
• Avery, Peter and Idsardi, William J. (2000) On the laryngeal specification of tone. Annual Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto, February 2000.
• Avery, Peter and Idsardi, William J. (2000) The laryngeal phonology of Korean. Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Chicago, January 2000.
• Avery, Peter. and Idsardi, William J. (1999) Laryngeal dimensions and phonetic completion. Conference on Distinctive Feature Theory. Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, October 1999.
• Idsardi, William J. (1998) Opacity, Sympathy and Derivations. Annual meeting of the Generative Linguists of the Old World, Tilburg, April 1998.
• Lidz, Jeffrey and Idsardi, William J. (1998) Chains and Phono-logical form. 22nd annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania, March 1998.
• Purnell, Thomas C., Idsardi, William J. and Baugh, John. (1998) Perceptual and phonetic experiments on American English dialect identification. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York City, January 1998.
• Idsardi, William J. and Kim, Sun-Hoi. (1997) Enclitic Tonal Patterns in North Kyungsang Korean and Tokyo Japanese. The Fourth Seoul International Conference on Linguistics, Seoul, Korea, August, 1997.
• Idsardi, William J. and Kim, Sun-Hoi. (1997) Metrical Tone in North Kyungsang Korean. The Seventh Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, Harvard University, July, 1997.
• Idsardi, William J. (1997) Against Lexicon Optimization. Annual Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto, February 1997.
• Raimy, Eric and Idsardi, William J. (1996) A Minimalist Approach to Reduplication in Optimality Theory. Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society, McGill University, Montreal, October 1996.
• Idsardi, William J. and Purnell, Thomas C. (1995) Sukuma Accent. Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, University of Chicago, April 1995.
• Idsardi, William J. (1995) Dressing Up a 'Bare' Argument. Annual Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop, University of Ottawa, February 1995.
• Idsardi, William J. (1994) Optimality, Alignment and Polish Stress. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, January 1994.
• Bures, Anton and Idsardi, William J. (1993) A Mechanism for Phonological Feature Licensing. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association, Carleton University, May 1993.
• Idsardi, William J. (1993) Some Properties of Simplified Bracketed Grids. Annual Meeting of the Generative Linguists of the Old World, Lund, April 1993.
• Idsardi, William J. (1991) Stress and Glottalized Sonorants in Shuswap. 26th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, University of British Columbia, August 1991.
• Idsardi, William J. (1991) Stress and Glottalized Sonorants in Shuswap. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association, Queen's University, May 1991.
• Idsardi, William J. (1991) Stress in Interior Salish. Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, University of Chicago, April 1991.
• Bernstein, Gabrielle and Idsardi, William J. (1988) Governing Gutturals. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association, University of Windsor, May 1988.
• Avery, Peter, Cichocki, Walter, Idsardi, William J. and Rice, Keren. (1987) Syntactic Timing and the Metrical Grid. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association, McMaster University, Hamilton, May 1987.
• Avery, Peter, Cichocki, Walter, Idsardi, William J. and Rice, Keren. (1987) Vowel Lengthening and Syntactic Timing. Conference at the Experimental Phonetics Lab, University of Toronto, March 1987
• Avery, Peter, Cichocki, Walter, Idsardi, William J., Rice, Keren and Archibald, John. (1986) An Acoustic Study of Vowel Lengthening and Pausing in Syntactic Timing. Twelfth International Conference on Acoustics, Toronto, July 1986.

Courses Taught

• University of Maryland
  • LING 322: Phonology II
  • LING 620: Phonological Theory
  • LING 621: Issues in Phonological Theory
  • NACS 645/728: Introduction to Cognitive Science
• University of Delaware
  • LING 101: 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 (Spring 1999, Spring 2006)
  • LIN 228: Phonetics
• York Univeristy
  • AS/COGS/LING/PHIL 3800: Language and Mind (Spring 2006)