William J. Idsardi

Papers and Work in Progress

Speech Perception

• Speech perception at the interface of neurobiology and linguistics

  David Poeppel, William J. Idsardi and Virginie van Wassenhove

  To appear in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

• Speech Perception is Not Isomorphic to Phonology

  Baris Kabak and William Idsardi

  To appear in Language and Speech

• The Influence of Meaning on the Perception of Speech Sounds

  Nina Kazanina, Colin Phillips and William Idsardi

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, July 18, 2006

• The Perception of Handshapes in American Sign Language

  With Stephanie Baker, Roberta Golinkoff and Laura-Ann Petitto

  Memory and Cognition, July 2005

• Flaps in American English and Korean: An Acoustic and Perceptual Study

  With Eun-Kyung Sung

  Generative Grammar in a Broader Perspective, 2004

• Syllabically conditioned perceptual epenthesis
  Syllabically conditioned perceptual epenthesis (ms)

  With Baris Kabak

  Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2004

• The Perception of Stops by Thai Children and Adults

  With Patcharee Imsri

  Boston University Conference on Language Development, 2003

• Speech Perception and Production of the English Final Voicing Contrast by Korean Speakers

  With Woohyeok Chang

  Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics, 2001

• Perceptual and Phonetic Experiments on American English Dialect Identification

  With Tom Purnell and John Baugh

  Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 1999

Metrical structures, stress and tone

• Calculating Metrical Structure

  To appear in Cairns and Raimy (eds) TBA MIT Press

• Stress Machine Battlebots

  UConn, 2004 slideshow

• Markedness and the Phonetic Implementation of Tone in North Kyungsang Korean

  With Woohyeok Chang

  Berkley Linguistics Society, 2004

• Stress and Length in Hixkaryana

  With Morris Halle

  The Linguistic Review, 2000

• The Status of High Tone in North Kyungsang Korean: Evidence from a Phonetic Study

  With Woohyeok Chang

  Seoul International Conference on Language and Computation, 2000

• The Syntax-Phonology Interface in North Kyungsang Korean

  With Sun-Hoi Kim

  Penn Linguistic Colloquium, 2000

• Metrical Tone and the Elsewhere Condition

  With Tom Purnell

  Rivista di Linguistica, 1997

• Enclitic Tone Patterns in North Kyungsang Korean and Tokyo Japanese

  With Sun-Hoi Kim

  Seoul International Conference on Linguistics, 1997

• The Metrical Tone in North Kyungsang Korean

  With Sun-Hoi Kim

  Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics, 1997

• General Properties of Stress and Metrical Structure
  General Properties of Stress and Metrical Structure (DIMACS version)

  With Morris Halle

  Handbook of Phonological Theory, 1995

• Open and Closed Feet in Old English

  Linguistic Inquiry, 1994

• A Reanalysis of Indonesian Stress

  With Morris Halle

  MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 1994

• Optimality, Alignment and Polish Stress

  Handout of LSA talk, Boston, January 1994

• The Computation of Prosody

  PhD thesis, MIT, 1992

  • Front Material
  • 1. Basic Mechanisms for constructing metrical grids
  • 2. Constraints on the construction of metrical grids
  • 3. Conflation and multiple metrical parameters
  • 4. Case studies in lexical stress
  • 5. Rules and representations in metrical theory
  • 6. Conclusions
  • References

• Stress and Glottalized Sonorants in Shuswap

  Canadian Linguistics Association, 1991

• Stress in Interior Salish

  Chicago Linguistics Society, 1991

Opacity and Rule Systems

• Canadian Raising, Opacity and Rephonemicization (ms)
  Canadian Raising, Opacity and Rephonemicization (handout)
  Canadian Raising, Opacity and Rephonemicization (abstract)

  Candian English in the Global Context, Toronto, January 2005

  The Canadian Journal of Linguistics, to appear

• What do Korean Speakers Learn about English Fricatives

  With Sun-Ah Son

  Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics, 2004

• Further Opacity Issues: Spontaneous L2 Opacity

  Linguistic Society of Korea, 2002

• Clarifying Opacity

  The Linguistic Review, 2000

• On Syllable-based multiple opacities

  With Sun-Hoi Kim

  International Workshop on Generative Grammar, 2000

• Tiberian Hebrew Spirantization and Phonological Derivations

  Linguistic Inquiry, 1998

• Sympathy creates chaos

  MS 1997

• Phonological Derivations and Historical Changes in Hebrew Spirantization

  Derivations and Constraints, 1997

• r, Hypercorrection and the Elsewhere Condition

  With Morris Halle

  Derivations and Constraints, 1997

Features

• Laryngeal Phonology

  With Peter Avery

  Cambridge University Press (Under contract)

• Laryngeal dimensions, completion and enhancement
  Laryngeal dimensions, completion and enhancement (ms)

  With Peter Avery

  Distinctive Feature Theory, 2001

• A Phonological Perspective on Locus Equations

  Behavior and Brain Sciences, 1998

  (Whole Sussman BBS article and commentaries)

Reduplication and Serial Order

• Unwinding Morphology

  CUNY Precedence conference, January 2007

  With Rachel Shorey

• Remarks on Language Play

  With Eric Raimy

  Submitted

• Reduplicative Economy

  With Eric Raimy

  Phonology 2000, To appear

• A Minimalist Approach to Reduplication in Optimality Theory

  With Eric Raimy

  NELS, 1997

• Syllabification and Reduplication in Bella Coola

  MIT Generals paper, 1990

Statistics

• Selecting Vowel Features

  (with white background instead)

  Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto Phonology Workshop, March 2007

• Making Phonological Decisions

  University of Maryland Mayfest, May 2006

• A Bayesian approach to loanword adaptation (poster)
  A Bayesian approach to loanword adaptation (abstract)

  LSA annual meeting, January 2006

• A Bayesian Account of Loanword Adaptation (abstract)

  Harvard ISOKL, 2005 submitted

  (I could not attend the ISOKL meeting.)

Computational Complexity

• Combinatorics for Metrical Feet

  Submitted

• A Simple Proof that Optimality Theory is Computationally Intractable
  A Simple Proof that Optimality Theory is Computationally Intractable (ms)

  Linguistic Inquiry, 2006, 37;2:271-275

Syntax

• Chains and Phono-Logical Form

  With Jeff Lidz

  Penn Linguistic Colloquium, 1998

• Domain Correspondence

  MIT Generals paper, 1989

Other

• Poverty of the Stimulus Arguments in Phonology

  Submitted

• Phonology is Part of the Problem

  University of Maryland, College Park, 2005

• Text and Meter and Tune
  Text and Meter and Tune (tar/gzip)

  Words and Music Conference, University of Missouri, Columbia, 2003

• Prerequisites for a Theory of Diachronic Adaptation

  With B. Elan Dresher

  Zeitschrift fuer Sprachwissenschaft, 2000

• Review of Grounded Phonology

  Journal of Linguistics, 1998