Publications
Jennifer L. Smith
Here are some of the topics that I work on. A brief description of each topic can be found on my research interests page. To see the papers and handouts related to each topic, please click on the links below.
- All topics
- The phonology/phonetics interface
- Sonority and syllable structure
- Loanword phonology
- Positional effects in phonology
- Phonology and reading
- Noun faithfulness
- The phonology of Japanese
- The phonology of other East Asian languages
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Papers: Noun faithfulness
NEW: (To appear) Markedness, faithfulness, positions, and contexts: Lenition and fortition in Optimality Theory. In Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho, Tobias Scheer, and Philippe Ségéral, eds., Lenition and Fortition. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [Please contact me if you would like a copy of the paper.]
(To appear) Phonological constraints are not directly phonetic. In Proceedings of CLS 41 (vol. 1). Rutgers Optimality Archive #779. PDF
(To appear) Source similarity in loanword adaptation: Correspondence Theory and the posited source-language representation. In Steve Parker, ed., Phonological Argumentation: Essays on Evidence and Motivation. London: Equinox. [Please contact me if you would like a copy of the paper.] abstract (plain text)
[Elliott Moreton, Gary Feng, and Jennifer L. Smith]
(To appear) Syllabification, sonority, and perception: new data
from a language game.
In Proceedings of CLS 41 (vol. 1).
Rutgers Optimality Archive
#829.
PDF
(2007) Representational complexity in syllable structure and its consequences for Gen and Con. In Sylvia Blaho, Patrik Bye and Martin Krämer, eds., Freedom of Analysis?. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 257-280. Prepublication version available as Rutgers Optimality Archive #800. PDF
(2006) Correspondence Theory vs. cyclic OT: Beyond morphological derivation. In Chris Davis, Amy Rose Deal, and Youri Zabbal, eds., Proceedings of NELS 36, vol. 2. Amherst, MA: GLSA, 531-545. PDF
(2006) Loan phonology is not all perception: Evidence from Japanese loan doublets. In Timothy J. Vance and Kimberly A. Jones, eds., Japanese/Korean Linguistics 14. Stanford: CSLI, 63-74. Pre-publication version available as Rutgers Optimality Archive #729. PDF
(2005) Comments on "Syntax-phonology interfaces in Busan Korean and Fukuoka Japanese" by Tomoyuki Kubo. In Shigeki Kaji, ed., Cross-Linguistic Studies on Tonal Phenomena IV. Tokyo: ILCAA, 211-219. PDF
(2005) On the WH-question intonational domain in Fukuoka Japanese: Some implications for the syntax-prosody interface. In Shigeto Kawahara, ed., Papers on Prosody. UMass Occasional Papers in Linguistics (UMOP) 30. Amherst: GLSA, 219-237. PDF
(2004) Making constraints positional: Toward a compositional model of CON. Lingua 114(12): 1433-1464.
The above paper is a revised version of:
(2003) Toward a compositional treatment of positional
constraints: The case of positional augmentation.
In Angela Carpenter, Andries Coetzee, and Paul de Lacy, eds.
Papers in Optimality Theory II.
UMass Occasional Papers in Linguistics (UMOP) 26. Amherst: GLSA,
337-370.
Rutgers Optimality Archive
#550
[2002].
PDF
(2003) Onset sonority constraints and subsyllabic structure. Submitted to: John R. Rennison, Friedrich Neubarth, and Markus A. Pöchtrager, eds., Phonologica 2002. Rutgers Optimality Archive #608. PDF
(2002) Phonological Augmentation in Prominent Positions. PhD dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
- Download: abstract (PDF) table of contents (PDF) [Please contact me for further information.]
- (2003) Distributed by GLSA Publications at UMass
- (2005) Available from Routledge
(2001) Lexical category and phonological contrast. In Robert Kirchner, Joe Pater, and Wolf Wikely, eds., Papers in Experimental and Theoretical Linguistics 6: Workshop on the Lexicon in Phonetics and Phonology. Edmonton: University of Alberta, 61-72. Rutgers Optimality Archive #728. PDF
(2000) Positional faithfulness and learnability in Optimality Theory. In Rebecca Daly and Anastasia Riehl, eds., Proceedings of ESCOL 99. Ithaca: CLC Publications, 203-214. PDF
(2000) Prominence, augmentation, and neutralization in phonology. In Lisa Conathan, Jeff Good, Darya Kavitskaya, Alyssa Wulf, and Alan Yu, eds., Proceedings of BLS 26. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society, 247-257. [Published version has formatting errors; corrected version available as Rutgers Optimality Archive #727 (2005).] PDF
(1999) Noun faithfulness and accent in Fukuoka Japanese. In Sonya Bird, Andrew Carnie, Jason D. Haugen, and Peter Norquest, eds., Proceedings of WCCFL XVIII. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 519-531. PDF
(1998) Noun faithfulness and word stress in Tuyuca. In Jennifer Austin and Aaron Lawson, eds., Proceedings of ESCOL 97. Ithaca: CLC Publications, 180-191. PDF
(1998) Noun faithfulness: Evidence from accent in Japanese dialects. In Noriko Akatsuka, Hajime Hoji, Shoichi Iwasaki, Sung-Ock Sohn, and Susan Strauss, eds., Japanese/Korean Linguistics 7. Stanford: CSLI, 611-627. PDF
(1997) Noun faithfulness: On the privileged behavior of nouns in phonology. Ms., University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Rutgers Optimality Archive #242. PDF
Handouts: Noun faithfulness
NEW: (2008) Positional and contextual constraints: Evidence from lenition. Handout from poster presentation at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America; Chicago, January 5. PDF
NEW: (2007) Accent deletion and phrase formation in Fukuoka Japanese WH constructions. Handout from presentation at the Workshop on Prosody, Syntax and Information Structure III; Indiana University, September 15. PDF
(2004) Functional grounding in the phonology: Evidence from positional augmentation. Handout from presentation at the GLOW 2004 Workshop on Markedness in Phonology; Aristotle University (Thessaloniki), April 18. PDF
(2003) The formal and the functional in onset sonority constraints. Handout from presentation at the LSA 2003 Annual Meeting, Atlanta, January 5. PDF
(1999) Tone and WH-questions in Fukuoka dialects. Handout from presentation at Workshop on Japanese Prosody; UMass, Amherst, January 22. PDF
(1998) Copying without reduplication: Fanqie language formation in Chinese. Handout from presentation at RumJClam [Rutgers-UMass OT workshop] III, February 28. PDF
(1998) Fanqie secret languages and reduplication (revisited). Handout from presentation at UMass Phonology Group, October 23. (Somewhat incomplete) follow-up to above. PDF
(1997) Markedness and liquid alternations in Korean: Implications for the representation of ambisyllabicity. Handout from poster presentation at the Hopkins Optimality Workshop/University of Maryland Mayfest; Baltimore, May 11. PDF
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