Melissa Frazier  University of North Carolina-  Chapel Hill  department of linguistics
research interests phonology optimality theory prosody phonetics-phonology interface morphology-phonology interface historical linguistics theories of sound change Yucatecan reconstruction Mayan languages Yucatec Maya Germanic languages American English German
publications/conference presentations    papers available on Rutgers Optimality Archive (when applicable) SSILA Annual Meeting (2008): Acoustic Analysis of Pitch in Yucatec Maya: Dialect Differentiation and Influence of Adjacent Consonants (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) UCLA Indo-European Conference (2006): Accent in Athematic Nouns in Vedic Sanskrit and Its Development from Proto-Indo-European UNC-CH Spring Colloquium (2006): Proto-Mayan ee, oo > Proto-Ch'olan e/i, o/u: Regular or Sporadic Sound Change? (poster) NELS 36 (2005): Output-Output Faithfulness to Moraic Structure: Evidence from American English
teaching Intro. to Linguistics: LING 101
read my thesis: Accent in Proto-Indo-European Athematic Nouns: Antifaithfulness in Inflectional Paradigms
Yucatec Maya documentation project
my CV
contact     melfraz AT-SIGN email DOT unc DOT edu     Department of Linguistics     318 Dey Hall, CB #3155     UNC - Chapel Hill     Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3155 back to UNC linguistics : grad students last updated 1/08/08