1. Research

Research Groups

The Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona is home to seven research groups. From syntax and semantics to Celtic linguistics, our department offers several paths to explore linguistic research in and outside the lab.

Description

The department of linguistics at the University of Arizona sponsors an active and vibrant research team with a focus on theoretical approaches to Syntax and formal approaches to Semantics. This research group investigates all areas of sentence structure, morphosyntax, sentence meaning, and lexical meaning, as well as the interfaces of these with other related disciplines, such as sentence processing, language acquisition, computation. The focus of the group is in Generative (Minimalist) approaches to syntax and semantics, although other perspectives such as HPSG, LFG and Optimality theory are pursued. The research group encourages collaboration between participants and between faculty and students. The group holds frequent meetings (the Syntax Salon) both as a reading group and for the workshopping of new ideas. 

Research Projects

On-going research projects include (but are not limited to):

  • Binding & Obviation in Minimalism
  • Copular Constructions and Predication
  • Topic & Focus, and syntactic structure
  • Case & Ergativity
  • Scrambling & Word Order
  • Argument Structure, Aspect, Aktionsarten & Lexical semantics
  • Extraction and Anaphora
  • Complex Prediates
  • The morphology syntax Interface
  • Dative shift and morphophonology
  • Syntactic theory and Sentence Processing
  • Lexical Access
  • The structure of DP.
  • The acquisition of relative clauses
  • Semantic Timing Effects
  • Reconstruction
  • Reference Types and Anaphora

  • The syntax & semantics of particular languages:

    • Modern Irish
    • English
    • Spanish
    • Navajo
    • Hiaki (Yaqui)
    • Tohono O'odham
    • Scottish Gaelic
    • Japanese
    • Chinese
    • Russian
    • Modern Persian
    • Maori
    • Mayan Languages
    • Salishan Languages

Syntax Salon

The Syntax & Semantics research group sponsors a series of meetings of talks on syntax, including a reading group and workshops of new work.

Graduate Programs in Syntax and Semantics

The research group, in coordination with the department of linguistics, sponsors a Ph.D. in Linguistics with a specializations in Theoretical Syntax, Formal Semantics, Lexical Semantics, Syntax/Semantics Interfaces, Sentence Processing and related areas.

  • A masters degree in the syntax of Native American languages is offered by the Linguistics dept.
  • A master's degree in Spanish Linguistics (including syntax) is also available from the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.

Description

Phonetics and phonology are studied by groups within each relevant lab, and many students participate in more than one lab group.  The sound subfields also meet in a larger group titled "Sound Minds" in some semesters, when a need is felt for a research group spanning all the labs.

Research Group Participants

Faculty with primary interests in Sound structure:

  • Diana B. Archangeli, Prof., Linguistics, Cognitive Science (MIT 1984) Phonology, phonetics, morphology, Native American languages, ryphonological features and their phonetic correlates, syllable structure, templatic morphology.
  • Ana Maria Carvalho, Asst. Prof. Spanish and Portuguese (UC Berkeley) Sociolinguistics, Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics.
  • LouAnn Gerken, Prof., Psychology, Linguistics, Cognitive Science (Columbia 1987) Infant phonological development and the use of prosody in the discovery of morpho-syntax
  • Michael Hammond, Assoc. Prof., Linguistics, Cognitive Science (UCLA 1984) Phonology, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, meter, stress/accent, and syllable structure.
  • Diane Ohala, Assoc. Prof, Linguistics (UArizona 1996) Phonological acquisition in normal language and speech-language impaired populations, phonology, psycholinguistics.
  • Natasha Warner, Prof. Linguistics (UCBerkeley 1998) Phonetics, Experimental Phonology, Psycholinguistics, and Language Revitalization
  • Malcah Yaeger-Dror, Research Scientist, Cognitive Science (UPennsylvania 1979) Sound change, chain shifting of vowels, disagreement strategies, prosody and interactive strategies.
  • Adam Ussishkin, Assoc. Prof., Linguistics (UC Santa Cruz 2000).
  • Andrew Wedel, Assoc. Prof., Linguistics (UC Santa Cruz 2003).

Faculty with secondary interests in Sound Structure:

  • Janet Nicol, Assoc. Prof., Psychology, Linguistics, Cognitive Science. Sentence production
  • Ofelia Zepeda, Assoc. Prof., Linguistics, AILDI Co-director. Lexicography, Tohono O’odham linguistics

Graduate Programs in Language Sound Structure

The research group, in coordination with the department of linguistics, sponsors a Ph.D. in Linguistics with a specialization in Phonetics, Phonology, and morphophonology.

Description

Bringing together the research interests of faculty in phonology, syntax and semantics, the morphology research group focuses on understanding the interface between lexical representation, phonological processes, and sub-lexical structure. The question of whether or not a separate Morphology module is needed to mediate between the syntax and the phonology is of primary interest, as is the relationship between Optimality-Theoretic phonology and generative syntax., We are also concerned with the question of lexical representaiton, and the locus of word-formation processes -- i.e., is there a generative lexicon, or not? Particularly with respect to this last question, the work of the lexical-access group in the Psychology department complements the theoretical approach of the linguistics faculty.

Research Group Participants

Faculty with primary interests in Morphology:

  • Kenneth Forster (emeritus; (Ph.D. U Illinois, 1964) Lexical Access, Psychomorphology (Psychology)
  • Michael Hammond (PhD, UCLA, 1984) Morphophonology, Computational Morphology (Linguistics)
  • Heidi Harley,(Ph.D. MIT 1995) Case, Distributed Morphology, Lexical Syntax Nominalizations, Causatives (Linguistics)
  • Simin Karimi,(Ph.D. UWash 1989) morphological featuers, argument structure, DP syntax, complex predicates, Persian morphology. (Department of Linguistics)
  • Antxon Olarrea. (PhD. UWash 1996) word order & agreement typologies (Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
  • Ofelia Zepeda (PhD, U Arizona, 1984) Tohono O'odham morphology (department of Lingustics)
  • Adam Ussishkin (PhD, UCSC,2000) Semitic morphology especially Maltese and Hebrew

Faculty with secondary interests in Morphology:

  • Andrew Carnie, (Ph.D. MIT 1995) Case & Ergativity, Distributed Morphology (Department of Linguistics)
  • Diana Archangeli(PhD, MIT, 1984) Morphophonology, Prosodic Morphology (Department of Linguistics)
  • LouAnn Gerken, (PhD, Columbia U, 1987) Acquisition of Morphology (Departments of Linguistics and Speech and Hearing).
  • Robert Henderson, (PhD UCSC 2012) Mayan morphology, especially Kaqchikel, K‛ichee‛ and Uspanteko

Graduate Students Affiliates:

  •  Jonathan Geary
  •  Meg Harvey
  •  Isabel McKay
  • Adam King

Alumni

  • Sonia Bird (Linguistics)
  • Lindsay Butler (Linguistics)
  • Ana Carla Bruno
  • Shiloh Drake (Linguistics)
  • Megan Figueroa (Linguistics)
  • Lea Hald (Linguistics)
  • Jason Haugen (Linguistics)
  • Robert Keneddy (Linguistics)
  • Hyun-Kyoung Jung (Linguistics)
  • Nick Kloehn (Linguistics)
  • Will Lewis
  • Christine Mahoney (Linguistics)
  • Miziki Miyashita (Psychology)
  • Laura Moll (Linguistics)
  • Peter Norquist (Linguistics)
  • Jeffrey Punske (Linguistics)
  • Angelina Serratos (Linguistics)
  • Daniel Siddiqi (Linguistics)
  • Tatyana Sloboddchikoff (Linguistics)
  • Deniz Tat (Linguistics)
  • Cosette Terry-Itewaste (Linguistics)
  • Alexandra Trueman (Linguistics)
  • Mercedes Tubino-Blanco (Linguistics)
  • Alina Twist (Linguistics)
  • Samantha Wray (Linguistics)

Research Projects

  • The Agressive Parser: the morphology-syntax interface (telicity and word structure in English, double objects)
  • Hiaki reduplication
  • Case and Ergativity
  • Distributed Morphology
  • The computation of morphological structure
  • The psychological reapresentation of morphologically complex words
  • Navajo morphosyntax
  • Tohono O'odham reduplication
  • Native American electonic dictionary project
  • Little v and lexical syntax
  • Animacy hierarchies and derivations

Graduate Programs in Morphology

The research group, in coordination with the department of linguistics, sponsors a Ph.D. in Linguistics with a specialization in Morphology, Morphosyntax, or Morphophonology and related areas.

  • A masters degree in the morphology of Native American languages is offered by the Linguistics dept.

Research Group Participants

Faculty with primary interests:

  • Thomas Bever
  • Kenneth Forester
  • LouAnn Gerken
  • Cecile McKee
  • Janet Nicol
  • Adam Ussishkin
  • Diane Ohala

Faculty with secondary interests:

  • Andrew Barss

Graduate Students Affiliates:

  • Megan Figueroa
  • Shannon Grippando

Graduate Programs in Language and Cognition:

The research group, in coordination with the department of linguistics, sponsors a Ph.D. in Linguistics with specializations in Psycholinguistics, Language Acquisition, Neurolinguistics, Language and Mind, and related areas.

  • Degrees in Cognitive Science are also available through the department.

Description

The department of linguistics at the University of Arizona was established with the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities as a center for the study of Native American linguistics and for the training of Native American linguists.  Over the years, this rich area of research has grown to encompass the study of language endangerment and revitalization, language documentation, language rights, and language reclamation within the US and around the globe.  The research group in Endangered Languages, Language Revitalization and Documentation includes faculty and graduate students working with and among endangered language communities all over the world, and supports the Master of Arts in Native American Linguistics (NAMA) and the Language Revitalization specialization within the Ph.D. program.  Many faculty and students in this group benefit from participation in various capacities with the American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI), which offers an unparalleled opportunity for members of the Department to become actively involved in community-centered research.

 Research Group Participants

 Faculty with primary interests in Native American Linguistics:

  • Ofelia Zepeda, Regents' Professor & Director of the American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI) (Ph.D. U Arizona 1984). Tohono O'odham Linguistics, Language Maintenance. (Department of Linguistics)
  • Natasha Warner, Prof (Ph.D. UC Berkeley) Mutsun Language, Language Maintenance, Phonetics
  • Amy Fountain, Associate Professor, NTE (Ph.D. U. Arizona 1998).   Language revitalization and documentation, repatriation of language resources (Coeur d'Alene), Navajo language, Native American linguistics.
  • Robert Henderson, Asst. Prof. (Ph.D. UCSC 2012) Mesoamerican Languages (especially Mayan), Semantics, Morphology (Department of Linguistics)
  • Wilson de Lima Silva (ph.D of Utah: Amazonian Linguixtixs, Tukanoan languages, Language Documentation, Language Conversation & Revitalization.

Faculty with secondary interests in Native American Linguistics:

  • Andrew Carnie, Professor of Linguistics and Dean of the Graduate College, (Ph.D. MIT 1995) Mayan Languages, Case & Ergativity, Morphology, Theoretical Syntax (Department of Linguistics)
  • Michael Hammond, Prof (Ph.D. UCLA, 1984) Dictionaries of Native American languages, Phonology. (Department of Linguistics)
  • Heidi Harley, Asst. Prof. (Ph.D. MIT 1995) Uto Aztecan lexical semantics & syntax, morphology (Department of Linguistics) "Hiaki morphology and syntax". https://linguistics.arizona.edu/node/677
  • Rudy Troike Prof. (Ph.D. ) Syntactic Theory, Native American Syntax & Morphology (Department of English)
  • Diana Archangeli, Professor of Linguistics and Director of Graduate Studies, (Ph.D MIT 1984) sound systems

Graduate Students Affiliates:

  • Mosiah Bluecloud
  • Gabriela De La Cruz Sanchez
  • Jesus Gonzalez Franco
  • Megan Harvey
  • Kevan Joe
  • Alice Kwak
  • Joseph Marks
  • Christina Newhall
  • John Powell
  • Samantha Prins
  • Corey Roberts
  • Nelson Santiago
  • Wunetu Tarrant
  • Gabriela Vargas Melgarejo

Alumni:

  • Lynnika Butler
  • Phil Cash-Cash
  • Rolando Coto
  • Joseph Dupris
  • Jonathan Geary
  • Bryan James Gordon
  • Tania Granadillo
  • Keisha Joseph
  • Colleen Patton
  • Louise St. Amour
  • Cosette Terry-Itewaste
  • Patrick Thomas

Research Projects

Graduate Programs in Native American Linguistics

The research group, in coordination with the department of linguistics, sponsors a Ph.D. in Linguistics with a specialization in Native American Linguistics and related areas.

  • A masters degree in the description of Native American languages is also offered by the Linguistics dept.

Research Group Participants

Faculty with primary interests in Computational Linguistics:

 Faculty with secondary interests in Computational Linguistics:

Graduate Students Affiliates:

  • Gregory Anderson
  • Peter Brown
  • Michael Capizzi
  • Zac Chapman
  • Gustave Hahn-Powell
  • Meng (Daisy) Jia
  • Heather Lent
  • Mohsen Mahdavi Mazdeh
  • Ellyn Matthias
  • Kya Miller
  • Jaime Parchment
  • Nicholas Walker

Research Projects

  • Computational Optimality Theory

Graduate Programs in Computational Linguistics

The research group, in coordination with the department of linguistics, sponsors a Ph.D. in Linguistics with a specialization in Computational Linguistics with an emphasis on the relation between theoretical approaches to language and computational implementation. It also offers a Masters program in Human Language Technology (HLT), providing a balanced curriculum in linguistics, computational linguistics, and practical skills like business training.

Description

The Celtic Linguistics Group is a research cluster of faculty, graduate students and undergraduates that studies the Syntax, Morphology, Phonetics and Phonology of the Modern Celtic Languages, with an emphasis on Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Modern Irish. The Celtic Linguistics group has been the focus point for 5 major NSF research grants (see list below) and 2 smaller NSF conference and supplement grants. The group, lead by Profs Andrew Carnie and Michael Hammond, has explored a wide range of topics from experimental and instrumental measures of initial consonant mutation, to the syntax of pronoun post-posing, to corpus analysis of variation, to effective experimental methodologies in the field and to basic documentation and grammar writing. There have been a number of related and spin-off projects involving automatic speech recognition in Gaelic, language contact between Welsh and Spanish in Patagonia, and the structure of Welsh poetry. 

Some of the Group's Work Has Been Funded by the following Grants

  • August 2015 - August 2018 National Science Foundation (BCS1453724) SBE-RCUK: Experimental and Descriptive Investigations of Welsh (cym) Consonant Mutation". PI: Hammond; Co-PIs: Archangeli, Brooks, Carnie, Ohala, Ussishkin, Wedel. Jointly funded by RCUK, collaborative with Peredur Webb-Davies at Bangor University (Wales). $362,428.
  • April 2015 -  April 2017 National Science Foundation (BCS1500220) Collaborative Research: An Audio-visual corpus of Scottish Gaidhlig (GLA). PI Carnie, Co PIs: Hammond, Fisher. Collaborative proposal with Ian Clayton at the University of Nevada Reno. $190,000
  • April 2012 - Sept 2015 National Science Foundation (BCS11443818) Experimental and descriptive investigations of Gàidhlig Initial Consonant Mutation. PI Carnie, Co PIs: Archangeli, Hammond, Ussishkin, Warner $ 300170 (203,898 direct, 96272 indirect)
  • August 2011 – December 2011. National Science Foundation (BCS1136921) Instrumental and Experimental Analysis of Scottish Gaelic Phonology and Phonetics (Welsh Supplement)  PI Carnie, Co PI: Michael Hammond $18301
  • July 15, 2009-July 14, 2012. National Science Foundation (BCS0921685). Instrumental and Experimental Analysis of Scottish Gaelic (Gaidhlig; gla) Sound Structures. PI Carnie, Co-PIs: Michael Hammond, Natasha Warner, Diana Archangeli, Muriel Fisher (University of Arizona). (264,000)
  • September 2008 – February 2010 National Science Foundation Award BCS0819117. Workshop and Mini-Course on Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics Tucson, Arizona, March 1-8th, 2009. $26,583,
  • June 2007 – May 2009. National Science Foundation Award #BCS0639059 A Description and Database of Scottish Gaelic (Gaidhlig; gla) Morphosyntax. PI: Carnie $165,000, CoPI: Muriel Fisher)

Current Faculty & Research Scientists

  • Andrew Carnie
  • Michael Hammond
  • Diana Archangeli
  • Adam Ussishkin
  • Diane Ohala
  • Andy Wedel
  • Muriel Fisher (Research Scientist Sr)

Colleagues in other units or institutions

  • Heddwen Brooks (Physiology, UA)
  • Peredur Webb-Davies         (Bangor University, Wales)

Faculty formerly involved in the project

  • Heidi Harley
  • Natasha Warner

Post-doctoral fellows

  • Ian Clayton (now at the University of Nevada)
  • David Medeiros

Current Graduate Students

  • Colleen Patton
  • Elise Bell
  • Yan Chen
  • Nick Kloehn
  • Josh Meyer
  • Sam Johnston 

Current Undergraduates

  • Andrea Fulgham

Alumni

The following graduate students and alumni have worked at one time or another on the Celtic Group Projects

  • Sylvia (Reed) Schreiner (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
  • Peter Brown
  • Dan Brenner (Alberta?)
  • Jae-hoon Choi
  • Hyun-Kyoung Jung
  • Jay Hyun Sung
  • Jessamyn Schertz (University of Toronto)
  • Colin Gorrie
  • Lionel Mathieu (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Publications and Conference talks

  • Archangeli, Diana, Jeff Berry, Andrew Carnie, Nicole Hunt, Sunjing Ji, and Keisha Josephs  (2011) “ATR in Scottish Gaelic Tense Sonorants: A preliminary report” In Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics. Cambridge Scholar’s Press. pp. 283-306
  • Archangeli, Diana, Jeff Berry, Andrew Carnie, Nicole Hunt, Sunjing Ji, and Keisha Josephs  (2009) “ATR in Scottish Gaelic Tense Sonorants: A preliminary report”, Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics. University of Arizona, March 25, 2009.
  • Archangeli, Diana, Sam Johnston, Jae-Hyun Sung, Muriel Fisher, Michael Hammond, and Andrew Carnie (2014) Articulation and neutralization: a preliminary study of lenition in Scottish Gaelic. Proceedings of Interspeech 2014, 1683-1687.
  • Archangeli, Diana, Samuel Johnston, Jae-Hyun Sung, Muriel Fisher, Michael Hammond and Andrew Carnie. (2014) Articulation and Neutralization: A Preliminary Study of Lenition in Scottish Gaelic. Interspeech, September 17, 2014, Singapore.
  • Archangeli, Diana.  Samuel Johnston, Jae-Hyun Sung, Muriel Fisher, Michael Hammond, Andrew Carnie (2014) Svarabhakti vowel articulation in Scots Gaelic, LabPhon 14, July, 27th, 2014, Tokyo Japan
  • Brenner, Dan, Andréa Davis, Natasha Warner, Andrew Carnie, Muriel Fisher, Jessamyn Schertz, Michael Hammond and Diana Archangeli (2011). Can you say [ṽ] or [x̃]. Aerodynamics of Nasalized Fricatives in Scottish Gaelic. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130(4): 2550.
  • Brenner, Dan, Andréa Davis, Natasha Warner, Andrew Carnie, Muriel Fisher, Jessamyn Schertz, Michael Hammond and Diana Archangeli (2011). Can you say [ṽ] or [x̃]. Aerodynamics of Nasalized Fricatives in Scottish Gaelic. Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, October, 2011
  • Brenner, Dan, Natasha Warner, Andrew Carnie, Muriel Fisher, Diana Archangeli, Mike Hammond, Micaya Clymer, Andrea Davis, Colin Gorrie, Julia Fisher, Lionel Matthieu, Jessamyn Schertz and Jae-Hyun Sung (2011) Fitting the Phonetically Impossible into Phonology: Nasalized Fricatives in Scots Gaelic. University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics Spring Datablitz, February 11, 2011 
  • Carnie, Andrew “Experimental Investigations on Scottish Gaelic Phonetics and Phonology”, Carleton University Linguistics Colloquium, February 3, 2012.
  • Carnie, Andrew “Morphophonological Constraints on Word Order”. Linguistics Department Colloquium, University of California San Diego. November 24, 2008,
  • Carnie, Andrew “On the Lack of Double Object Constructions in Scottish Gaelic”, New Perspectives on Celtic Linguistics Workshop. University of California, Berkeley. September 8, 2012. (Authors in publication order: Hyun-Kyoung Jung, Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley)
  • Carnie, Andrew “Possession, Psych Predicates and Covert Double Objects” University of Calgary Linguistics Colloquium. April 12, 2013. (Authors in publication order: Andrew Carnie, Hyun-Kyoung Jung, Heidi Harley)
  • Carnie, Andrew “Scottish Gaelic Experimental Phonology: A Preliminary Report.” Plenary Speaker, Celtic Linguistics Conference 6, Sept 12, 2010. University College Dublin. (Co authored with Archangeli, Fisher, Hammond, Warner, Brenner, Clymer,  Davis, Gorrie, Mathieu, Schertz, Sung, Ward )
  • Carnie, Andrew “Scottish Gaelic Pronoun Postposing and Set Theoretic Phrase Structure”, Plenary Speaker, Irish Network of Formal Linguistics 3, Belfast Ireland, May 27, 2011
  • Carnie, Andrew “The Syntax and Semantics of Scottish Gaelic a’ dol”, Plenary Speaker, Celtic Linguistics Conference 7, June 22, 2012. University of Rennes II. France. (coauthored with Sylvia Reed)
  • Carnie, Andrew (2008) Irish Nouns: A Reference Guide. Oxford University Press.
  • Carnie, Andrew (2011) Irish Mixed Categories. Lingua 121: 1207-1244.
  • Carnie, Andrew (2011). Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics. Cambridge Scholars Press.
  • Carnie, Andrew (2013) Phonologically motivated pronoun post-posing in Scottish Gaelic. In Catrin Rhys, Pavel Iosad and Alison Henry (eds.) Microvariation, Minority Languages, Minimalism and Meaning: Proceedings of the Irish Network in Formal Linguistics. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 91-100
  • Carnie, Andrew (2015) “The Syntax and Semantics of Aspectual Contrasts in Scottish Gaelic”, The Syntax of Contrast Conference. University of Toronto, April 25, 2015. (Invited speaker, Sylvia Schreiner – co author)
  • Clayton, Ian (2015) Preasperated Stops in the English of Scottish-Gaelic/English Bilinguals. Proceedings of the International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences. 
  • Davis, Andrea, Michael Hammond, Andrew Carnie, Muriel Fisher, Diana Archangeli, Natasha Warner, Dan Brenner, Micaya Clymer, Julia Fisher, Colin Gorrie, Lionel Matthieu, Jessamyn Schertz and Jae-Hyun Sung (2011) Syllable Count of Epenthetic Words in Scots Gaelic. University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics Spring Datablitz, February 11, 2011
  • Davis, Andréa, Michael Hammond, Diana Archangeli, Andrew Carnie, Muriel Fisher, Natasha Warner, Colin Gorrie, Lionel Mathieu, Jessamyn Schertz. (2011) Perceptual and Judgment-based Experiments on Scottish Gaelic Svarabhakti. 14th International Congress of Celtic Studies, Maynooth Ireland, August 2011.
  • Hammond, Michael (2011) Cynghanedd a seinyddiaeth (Welsh poetry and phonology), invited talk, Bangor University (Wales).
  • Hammond, Michael (2011) Welsh poetry and phonology, invited talk, University of Edinburgh.
  • Hammond, Michael (2012) Phonological parallelism: the distribution of [h] in English and Welsh, invited speaker, UTASCILT, Arlington, TX.
  • Hammond, Michael (2012) The phonology of Welsh cynghanedd, Lingua 122, 386-408.
  • Hammond, Michael (2013) Cynghanedd yn yr anialwch, Barddas 318, 12-13.
  • Hammond, Michael (2013) Phonological complexity and input optimization, invited speaker, Phonology Forum, Sapporo, Japan.
  • Hammond, Michael (2014) Calculating syllable count automatically from fixed meter poetry in Welsh and English, Journal of Literary and Linguistic Computing 29, 218-233.
  • Hammond, Michael (2014) Input optimization: phonology and morphology, presented at Manchester Phonology Meeting.
  • Hammond, Michael (2014) Phonological complexity and input optimization, Phonological Studies 17, 85-94.
  • Hammond, Michael (2014) Variability in Welsh grammatical gender, presented at Language Diversity in Wales, Aberystwyth.
  • Hammond, Michael, Andréa Davis, Natasha Warner, Andrew Carnie, Diana Archangeli, Muriel Fisher (2014) Vowel Insertion in Scottish Gaelic. Phonology 31: 123-153.
  • Jae-Hyun Sung, Diana Archangeli, Daniel Brenner, Ian Clayton, Samuel Johnston, Michael Hammond, and Andrew Carnie (2013).  Ultrafest 6. The Articulation of Scottish Gaelic Plain and Palatalized Consonants. Edinburgh.
  • Natasha L. Warner, Ian Clayton, Andrew Carnie, Muriel Fisher, Dan Brenner, Michael Hammond, Diana Archangeli, and Adam Ussishkin  (2013) Perception of Scottish Gaelic alternating (leniting) consonants. Acoustical Society of America, San Francisco, December, 2013.
  • Natasha Warner, Ian Clayton, Daniel Brenner, Andrew Carnie, Michael Hammond, Muriel Fisher. (2014).  The effect of Gaelic initial consonant mutation on spoken word recognition. Celtic Linguistics Conference 8, Edinburgh [Poster]
  • Natasha Warner, Ian Clayton, Daniel Brenner, Andrew Carnie, Michael Hammond, Muriel Fisher. (2014).  Linguistic Society of America. The effect of Gaelic initial consonant mutation on spoken word recognition. Minneapolis
  • Schertz, Jessamyn, Diana Archangeli, Andrew Carnie, Jae Hyun Sung, Lionel Mathieu, Michael Hammond, Natasha Warner, Brenna Ward, Chelsea Milburn, Peter A. Brown, Dan Brenner, Colin Gorrie and Andrea Davis (2011): The articulation of epenthetic vowels in Scottish Gaelic. 14th International Congress of Celtic Studies, Maynooth Ireland, August 2011.
  • Schreiner, Sylvia (Reed) The Semantics of Grammatical Aspect: evidence from Scottish Gaelic. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Arizona
  • Schreiner, Sylvia and Andrew Carnie (forthcoming) The Syntax and Semantics of Scottish Gaelic a' dol a. Journal of Celtic Linguistics 17. 
  • Sung, J-H., Archangeli, D., Clayton, I., Brenner, D., Johnston, S., Hammond, M., & Carnie, A. (2014). The articulation of lexical palatalization in Scottish Gaelic. 167th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Providence, RI, U.S.A., May 8, 2014. [poster presentation]
  • Sung, Jae-Hyun (2015) Cross-linguistic Articulatory Analysis of Palatalization in Korean, English, and Scottish Gaelic. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Arizona
  • Warner, Natasha, Andrew Carnie, Dan Brenner, Micaya Clymer, Lionel Mathieu, Jae-Hyun Sung, Jessamyn Schertz, Michael Hammond, Diana Archangeli, Muriel Fisher, Colin Gorrie (2011):  Nasalization and Frication in Scottish Gaelic. 14th International Congress of Celtic Studies, Maynooth Ireland, August 2011.
  • Warner, Natasha, Andrew Carnie, Muriel Fisher, Jessamyn Schertz, Lionel Mathieu, Colin Gorrie, Michael Hammond, Diana Archangeli (2011) The Timing of perceptual Cues in Scots Gaelic. Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, October, 2011
  • Warner, Natasha, Brenner, Dan, Schertz, Jessamyn, Carnie, Andrew, Fisher, Muriel, and Hammond, Michael. (2015). The aerodynamic puzzle of nasalized fricatives:  Aerodynamic and perceptual evidence from Scottish Gaelic.  Laboratory Phonology 2015: 1-44
  • Warner, Natasha, Brenner, Dan, Schertz, Jessamyn, Carnie, Andrew, Fisher, Muriel, and Hammond, Michael.  “The aerodynamic puzzle of Scottish Gaelic nasalized fricatives.”  Dag van de Fonetiek meeting, Utrecht, the Netherlands, December 2014.
  • Warner, Natasha, Dan Brenner and Andrew Carnie. “Nasalized Fricatives vs. Approximants in Scottish Gaelic”. Celtic Linguistics Conference 7, June 23, 2012, University of Rennes II, France
  • Warner, Natasha, Jessamyn Schertz, Andrew Carnie, Muriel Fisher, Lionel Mathieu, Colin Gorrie, Michael Hammond and Diana Archangeli (2011) Timing of Perceptual Cues in Scots Gaelic. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 130(4): 2573.
  • Warner, Natasha, Jessamyn Schertz, Andrew Carnie, Muriel Fisher, Diana Archangeli, Michael Hammond, Lionel Mathieu and Colin Gorrie. Timing of perceptual cues in Scots Gaelic sound distinctions, Celtic Linguistics Conference 7, June 23, 2012. University of Rennes II, France [Poster]