Ian Clayton Department of Linguistics University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3155 iclayton at email dot unc dot edu

• Laboratory phonology
• Phonological typology, especially that of preaspirated stops
  
• Language endangerment & preservation, particularly Scottish Gaelic

• 2010. On the perceptual robustness of preaspirated stops. Poster to be presented at the LSA annual meeting, Baltimore, January 7-10.
  
• 2009. The preaspirated stop: a perceptually suboptimal phonological structure? Presented at LASSO 2009, Brigham Young University, September 25-26. [Handout]
  
• (to appear). Phonetics in phonology: evidence from Scottish Gaelic preaspiration. In Proceedings of the 39th meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society, Ithaca, New York, November 7-9. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. [Draft available here.]
  
• 2009. Analytic or channel bias: explaining variation in Scottish Gaelic preaspiration. Presented at the 6th Old World Conference in Phonology, Edinburgh, Scotland, January 21-24. [Abstract]
  
• 2008. Phonetics in phonology: evidence from Scottish Gaelic preaspiration. Poster presented at the 39th meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society, Ithaca, New York, November 7-9. [Abstract]
• 2007. An instrumental investigation of Scottish Gaelic preaspiration. Presented at the 27th Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, Natchitoches, Louisiania, April 12-14.
  
• 2005. Allen, Priscilla, Ian Clayton, Emily Hudon, Kurt Weissberger. TOEFL Strategies. Kaplan English Programs, New York, NY.
• 2005. Allen, Priscilla, Ian Clayton, Emily Hudon, Kurt Weissberger. Academic English Skills. Kaplan English Programs, New York, NY.
• 1998. A philosophy of language in Swift’s "Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue." Presented at the Pacific Rim Literary Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, February 21.
  

• Copula deletion in Irish-acquiring children: implications for the Tense-Bearing Unit Parameter
• Thir or these: social and grammatical variation in Older Scots demonstratives
• The punctum delens and nasal consonants in the Würzburg glosses
  

• CV.
• Teaching statement.
• Research statement.

• Brightwater
  
• Blackboard
• Contemporary Linguistics, 5th ed.
• Linguistics at UNC-CH
  

Last updated November 20, 2009.