Curriculum Vitae


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Chip Gerfen

Assistant Professor

& Undergraduate Advisor

Department of Linguistics
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
318 Dey Hall, CB #3155
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3155

office: 321 Dey Hall
office phone: (919) 962-4996
email: gerfen@email.unc.edu
homepage: http://www.unc.edu/~gerfen/

REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS
2002 ka'u o: An orthography and Picture Dictionary for Coatzospan Mixtec. Meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas, January 2002. (with Kelley Vance)
2001 S-aspiration without the [s] in Eastern Andalusian Spanish. 2001 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. (with Kathleen Hall).
2001 Amplitude Alone Can Cue Glottalization: Crosslinguistic Evidence from Speech Perception. Linguistic Society of America Meeting, January 4-7, Washington, DC. (with Kirk Baker)
1999 Obstruent Neutralization in Andalusian Spanish: A Critical View of Licensing by Cue. Presented at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 18, Tucson, AZ, April 9-11.
1999 Amplitude Drop as the Primary Cue for Glottalization: Evidence from Production. Presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles, January 8-11.
1999 Andalusian Codas. Presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles, January 8-11. (with Pilar Piñar)
1998 (H)igh-(H)igh, (L)ow-(L)ow, (W)hat's-(W)hat?. Presented at The annual meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society: Exploring the Boundaries between Phonetics and Phonology, March 13-15. (with Paul Denisowski)
1997 'Nasalized' Fricatives in Coatzospan Mixtec. Presented at the 1997 meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 2-5, Chicago, IL.
1997 Downstep and Downdrift in Ìgbò. Presented at the 1997 meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 2-5, Chicago, IL. (with Yetunde Laniran)
1995 Palatalization in Coatzospan Mixtec. Presented at the 1995 meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 6-8, New Orleans, LA.
1994 Cross-Segmental Opacity without Line Crossing: The Case of Coatzospan Mixtec. Presented at the 1994 meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 6-9, Boston, MA.
1993 Trigger Conditions and Nasal Harmony in Terena. Presented at The 19th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 13-16, Berkeley, CA,
1993 Aperture Geometry, Feature Cooccurrence and Meinhof's Law in Gikuyu. Presented at the 24th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, July 23-25, Ohio State University. (with John Mugane)
1992 Sikuani Stress and the Accentual Zone. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 12, February 21-23, UCLA.
1992 Scope Interpretation in Spanish Reciprocal Constructions. Presented at the Arizona Linguistics Conference, March 27-29, University of Arizona.
1991 Reciprocity in Spanish: A Puzzle of Scope. Presented at the Western Conference on Linguistics 4, November Simon Fraser U., 152-163.
1991 Izi Vowel Harmony and Selective Cyclicity,. Presented at The 4th Annual Arizona Phonology Conference, April 5-6, U.of Arizona,