my CV

research interests

• phonology (optimality theory, prosody, phonetics-phonology interface, morphology-phonology interface)
• phonetics (pitch and phonation)
• historical linguistics (theories of sound change, Yucatecan reconstruction)
• Mayan languages

papers
   (available on Rutgers Optimality Archive when applicable)

• The Production and Perception of Pitch and Glottalization in Yucatec Maya. 2009. Ph.D. dissertation.
• The Interaction of Pitch and Creaky Voice: Data from Yucatec Maya and Cross-Linguistic Implications. To appear in UBC Working Papers in Linguistics.
• A Stochastic OT Analysis of Production and Perception in Yucatec Maya. To appear in Proceedings of NELS 39.
• Tonal Dialects and Conosnant-Pitch Interaction in Yucatec Maya. 2009. In Heriberto Avelino, Jessica Coon, and Elisabeth Norcliffe (eds.) New Perspectives in Mayan Linguistics. MIT-WPL., 59-82.
• Accent in Athematic Nouns in Vedic Sanskrit and Its Development from Proto-Indo-European. 2007. In Karlene Jones-Bley, Angela della Volpe, Martin Huld, and Miriam Robbins Dexter (eds.), Proceedings of the 18th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Institute for the Study of Man, Washington, DC, 29-46.
• Output-Output Faithfulness to Moraic Structure: Evidence from American English. 2006. In Christopher Davis, Amy Rose Deal and Youri Zabbal (eds.) Proceedings of NELS 36 v. 1, 1-14.
• Accent in Proto-Indo-European Athematic Nouns: Antifaithfulness in Inflectional Paradigms. 2006. M.A. thesis.

handouts

• LSA Annual Meeting (2009): Producing, Perceiving, and Learning Variation: Pitch and Glottalization in Yucatec Maya (handout)
• SSILA Annual Meeting (2009): A Moraic Analysis of Tone and Glottalization in Yucatec Maya (handout)
• NELS 39 (2008): A Stochastic OT Analysis of Production and Perception in Yucatec Maya (handout)
• with Eduardo Hugo Gil, UNC-CH Spring Colloquium (2007): Language Game Evidence for Prosodic Principles and Output-Output Faithfulness (handout)
• LSA Annual Meeting (2007): Dominance in Inflectional Paradigms (handout)
• UNC-CH Spring Colloquium (2006): Proto-Mayan ee, oo > Proto-Ch'olan e/i, o/u: Regular or Sporadic Sound Change? (poster)

Yucatec Maya documentation

contact

    melfraz AT-SIGN email DOT unc DOT edu

    Department of Linguistics
    128 Smith, CB #3155
    UNC - Chapel Hill
    Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3155

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