The MIDPOINT PATHOLOGY (in the sense of Kager 2012) characterizes a type of
unattested stress system in which the stressable window contracts to a single word-internal …

This dissertation demonstrates a strong connection between the frequency of stress patterns
and their relative learnability under a wide class of learning algorithms. These frequency …

This paper presents structurally biased phonology, a program of research that aims to
formalize and better understand the role of structural complexity in phonological learning …

The main objective of this dissertation is to give a formal account of the typology of tonal
reassociation phenomena, where tone is realized on tonebearing units that are different …

This dissertation proposes a novel phonological framework, directional Harmonic Serialism,
that synthesizes constraint-based, rule-based, and formal language theoretic approaches to …

This dissertation investigates the soft typology of phonological patterns. By studying the
types of patterns observed in the world's languages, we can do more than determine what is …

Across phonology and syntax, the typological probability of one structure being present in a
linguistic system often depends on other related aspects of that system. For example, voiced …

This paper develops a theory of footing in Harmonic Serialism (HS; Prince & Smolensky
1993/2004; McCarthy 2000, 2016) where Con contains only directionally evaluated …

This dissertation shows how a theory of grammatical representations and a theory of
learning can be combined to generate gradient typological predictions in phonology …

In this work, I present a recursive algorithm for computing the number of rankings consistent
with a set of optimal candidates in the framework of Optimality Theory. The ability to measure …