Home page of Elliott Moreton
Department of Linguistics
Smith Building, Room 101
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3155
U.S.A.

My email address is my last name (note spelling) at unc.edu.

I am the Department's Director of Graduate Admissions (2005-), Director of Graduate Studies (2009-), and Diversity Liaison (2012-). I represent tenured faculty in the Division of the Humanities on the Faculty Council, 2012--16. From Fall 2013 I will also be on the Financial Exigency and Program Change Committee.

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• Linguistics 101 Introduction to Language (Fall 2012) (Undergraduate)
• Linguistics 200, Phonology (Fall 2012) (UG)
• Linguistics 333, Human Language and Animal Communication Systems (Spring 2013) (UG)
• Linguistics 422, Research Methods in Experimental Phonetics and Laboratory Phonology (UG/G)
• Linguistics 444, Origins and Evolution of Human Language (with Paul Roberge) (UG/G)
• Linguistics 520, Linguistic Phonetics (G/UG)
• Linguistics 523, Phonological Theory I (Spring 2013) (G/UG)

• Hauser, Ivy (2013). Sonority as a primitive: Evidence from phonological inventories. Presented at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), 2013 February 8--10. [UNC SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship)]
• Reyes, Kayleigh E. (2012). Inventory size and complexity in the song of the American Robin. Abstract in: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 132 (3):1979. [LING 333; independent study]

• Moeng, Emily (2012). Do phonologically active classes warp the perceptual space? (MA, UNC-Chapel Hill).
• Griffin, Jennifer (2011). Variation and gradience in a noisy harmonic grammar with lexically-indexed constraints: the case of Spanish -s deletion and aspiration (MA, UNC-Chapel Hill).
• Drozdiak, Alice (2011). Identifying and describing prosodic domain interaction with duration and hyperarticulation (MA, UNC-Chapel Hill).
• Clayton, Ian (2010). A natural history of preaspiration (PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill).
• Li, Yu (2007). Differential acquisition of phonemic contrasts by infant word learners: Does production recapitulate perception? (PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill, co-advised with Reiko Mazuka).
• Spears, Abby (2006). Nasal coarticulation in the French vowel /i/: a phonetic and phonological study (MA, UNC-Chapel Hill).

• Put a field marshal's baton in your knapsack! Freeware turns your computer into a pretty good phonetics lab.
• Compendium of examples of synchronic chain-shifts/counterfeeding interactions/underapplication cases (current count: 49) (pdf)
• Low-tech ways to observe your articulators.
• Suggestions for making good posters (pdf).
• Samuel Johnson's last-minute Rambler piece on procrastination and perfectionism.

• Moreton, Elliott, and Joe Pater (2012). Structure and substance in artificial-phonology learning. Part I, Structure. Part II, Substance. Language and Linguistics Compass 6 (11): 686--701 and 702--718. [Part I (pdf), Part II (pdf), final draft, June 2012] An earlier draft (April 2011) circulated under the title "Learning artificial phonology: a review".
• Moreton, Elliott, and Katya Pertsova (2012). Pastry phonotactics: Is phonological learning special? Presentation at NELS 43, CUNY. [Handout (pdf), October 19.]
• Pater, Joe, and Elliott Moreton (2012). Structurally biased phonology: complexity in learning and typology. Journal of the English and Foreign Languages University (Hyderabad), 3(2):1--44. [final version (pdf), August 2012]
• Smith, Jennifer L., and Elliott Moreton (2012). Sonority variation in Stochastic OT: Implications for markedness hierarchies. In: Steve Parker (ed.), The Sonority Controversy, 167--194. Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter. [Final draft (pdf), December 2011]
• Moreton, Elliott (2012). Inter- and intra-dimensional dependencies in implicit phonotactic learning. Journal of Memory and Language 67 (1):165-183. [Draft (pdf), December 2011] [Stimuli]
• Moreton, Elliott, and Joe Pater (2011). Formally biased phonology: complexity in learning and typology. Workshop on Testing Models of Phonetics and Phonology, Linguistic Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, July 13, 2011. [Handout (pdf)]
• Moreton, Elliott (2010). Constraint induction and simplicity bias in phonological learning. Workshop on Grammar Induction, Cornell University, May 14, 2010. [Handout (pdf)]
• Moreton, Elliott (2010). Underphonologization and modularity bias. In: Steve Parker (ed.), Phonological Argumentation: Essays on Evidence and Motivation, 79-101. London: Equinox. [Abstract] [Draft (pdf)] [Draft of 2006/5/27 at ROA-830]
• Moreton, Elliott (2009). Phonological Learning and Typology, LSA Institute Course 224. [Handouts (tarred, gzipped)]
• Moreton, Elliott (2008). Modelling modularity bias in phonological pattern learning. In: Natasha Abner, Jason Bishop, and Kevin Ryan (eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), 1-16. [ Abstract and paper] [paper] [BLUMPS 2.0 (tarred and gzipped)]
• Moreton, Elliott (2008). Analytic bias and phonological typology. Phonology 25(1):83--127. [Abstract] [Paper (pdf), version of 2008 Jan. 17.] [Stimuli for Experiments 1 and 2] [Scripts that produced the frequency counts in Section 7]
• Moreton, Elliott (2008). Learning bias as a factor in phonological typology. In: Charles Chang and Anna Haynie (eds.), Proceedings of the 26th Meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), 393--401. [Handout] [ Abstract and paper ] (This is essentially the NELS talk plus two more experiments.)
• Moreton, Elliott, Gary Feng, and Jennifer L. Smith (2008). Syllabification, sonority, and perception: new evidence from a language game. In: Rodney L. Edwards, Patrick J. Midtlyng, Colin L. Sprague, and Kjersti G. Stensrud (eds.), Proceedings from the Main Session of the Forty-First Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 341-355. [Abstract] [Draft (pdf)]
• Moreton, Elliott, and Erik R. Thomas (2007). Origins of Canadian Raising in voiceless-coda effects: a case study in phonologization. Jennifer S. Cole and Jose' Ignacio Hualde (eds.), Laboratory Phonology 9, 37-64. Berlin: Mouton [Abstract] [Manuscript (pdf) ]
• Moreton, Elliott (2007). Competition in perception grammar. Presentation at the workshop on "Experimental Approaches to Optimality Theory (ExpOT)", Ann Arbor, May 18-20, 2007. [Handout].
• Moreton, Elliott (2006). Phonotactic learning and phonological typology. Presentation at the 37th meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society, Urbana, Illinois, October 13-15, 2006. [Abstract]. [Handout].
• Moreton, Elliott (2004). Diachronically inaccessible grammars: a diachronic-phonetic study of the English /ai/ alternations. Presentation at the workshop on "Redefining Elicitation: Novel Data in Phonological Theory", New York University, April 9-11, 2004). [Abstract] [Handout (pdf)] Work done in collaboration with Erik R. Thomas, North Carolina State University.
• Moreton, Elliott (2004). Phonotactic constraints, frequency, and legality in English onset-cluster perception. Poster at Acoustical Society of America meeting, New York City, May 24-28, 2004. Abstract in: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 115(5, Part 2):2630. [Abstract] [Poster (pdf)] [References (pdf).]
• Moreton, Elliott (2004). Realization of the English postvocalic [voice] contrast in F1 and F2. Journal of Phonetics 32:1-33. [Abstract] [Stimuli for Experiments 2 and 3] [Script for finding formants at nucleus (F1 max) and offglide (F2 max)]
• Moreton, Elliott (2004). Non-computable functions in Optimality Theory. In: John J. McCarthy (ed.), Optimality Theory in Phonology, 141-164. [Abstract] [Early and rather buggy draft in pdf.]
• Moreton, Elliott (2002). Structural constraints in the perception of English stop-sonorant clusters. Cognition 84:55-71. [Abstract] [Manuscript (pdf)] [Stimuli for Experiments 1 and 2] [Missing panel from Fig. 1 of the publised version.] [Data from Experiments 1 (``08'') and 2 (``09'')]
• Moreton, Elliott, and Paul Smolensky (2002). Typological consequences of local constraint conjunction. In: L. Mikkelsen and C. Potts (eds.), Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 21:306-319. [Abstract] [ Paper (pdf).]
• Moreton, Elliott (2002). Phonological grammar in speech perception. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. [pdfs]
• Kingston, John, and Elliott Moreton (2001). How do listeners learn foreign vowel categories: as disjunctive sets, through selective attention, or as prototypes? In: R. Smits, J. Kingston, T. M. Nearey, and R. Zondervan (eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Speech Recognition as Pattern Classification, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, July 11-13, 2001. [Abstract] [Paper (pdf)]
• Moreton, Elliott (1999). Evidence for phonological grammar in speech perception. In: J. J. Ohala, Y. Hasegawa, M. Ohala, D. Granville, and A. C. Bailey (eds.), Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, pp. 2215-2217. [Abstract] [Paper (pdf)]
• Moreton, Elliott, and Shigeaki Amano (1999). Phonotactics in the perception of Japanese vowel length: Evidence for long-distance dependencies. Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Budapest. [Abstract] [Paper (pdf)]
• Moreton, Elliott (1999). Raise-/alpha/. Unpublished MS, Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. (Descriptive and historical notes on the Southern American English counterpart to Canadian Raising.) [pdf].
• Kingston, John, and Elliott Moreton (1998). Discovery of natural categories by non-native listeners. Abstract in: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 103(5, Part 2):2986.
• Oviatt, Sharon L., Gina A. Levow, Elliott Moreton, and Margaret MacEachern (1998). Modeling global and focal hyperarticulation during human-computer error resolution. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 104(5):1-19.
• Moreton, Elliott (1997). Phonotactic rules in speech perception. Abstract in : Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 102(5, Part 2):3091-3092.
• Kusumoto, Kiyomi, and Elliott Moreton (1997). Native language determines parsing of nonlinguistic rhythmic stimuli. Abstract in: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 102(5, Part 2):3204. [Poster (pdf)].

Last updated 2013 April 29 (M).