No man is an island, entire of itself: each man is a part of the main.
John Donne, Meditation XVII
Students
Doctoral Supervisees
Iacoponi, Luca (2018). Phonological agreement by feature correspondence: Extending Correspondence Theory to output feature nodes. Doctoral Dissertation. Rutgers University. (Co-chair with Prof Adam Jardine). [PDF] (Currently at Microsoft)
Shih, Shu-hao (2018). Non-moraic schwa: Phonology and phonetics. Doctoral dissertation. Rutgers University. [PDF] [Associate professor at National Taiwan University]
Staroverov, Peter (2014). Splitting Theory and consonant epenthesis. Doctoral Dissertation. Rutgers University. [PDF] (Currently at Apple).
Lee, Seunghun (2008). Consonant-tone interaction in Optimality Theory. Doctoral Dissertation. Rutgers University. (Co-chairperson with Prof. Akinbiyi Akinlabi). [PDF] [Professor at International Christian University in Japan]
Gürtler (nee Ketner), Katherine (2007). Size restrictions in prosodic morphology. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cambridge. [PDF] [Dean of the Faculty of Applied Natural Sciences and Cultural Studies, OTH Regensburg, Germany]
Doctoral Advisees
Danis, Nicholas (2017). Complex place and place identity. Doctoral dissertation, Rutgers University. (Chair: Akinbiyi Akinlabi). [PDF] [Senior lecturer, Washington University St Louis]
Merchant, Nazarré (2008). Discovering underlying forms: Contrast Pairs and Ranking. Doctoral dissertation, Rutgers University. (Chair: Bruce Tesar).[PDF] [Professor of Mathematics at Eckerd College]
Élias-Ulloa, José Alberto (2005). Theoretical aspects of Panoan metrical phonology: Disyllabic footing and contextual syllable weight. Doctoral dissertation, Rutgers University. (Chair: Alan Prince). [PDF] (Departmental Lecturer, Oxford University)
Jones, Mark (2004) The phonetics and phonology of definite article reduction in northern English dialects. University of Cambridge. (Chair: Francis Nolan). (Related PDF) [City St. George’s, University of London]
Astruc-Aguilera, Lluïsa (2004) The intonation of sentence-external elements. University of Cambridge. (Chair: Francis Nolan). (Related PDF) [Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Languages at The Open University]
MPhil Supervisees
Bembridge, Steven (2004). The Initial State in L2 acquisition. MPhil thesis, University of Cambridge. (PDF)
Pullman, Thomas (2004). An optimal floating feature approach to Irish Mutation. MPhil thesis, University of Cambridge. (PDF)
Chapter, Joanne (2003). The development and realisation of the Common Slavonic vowel jat’ in South Slavonic languages: A diachronic study in terms of Optimality Theory. University of Cambridge.
Ketner, Katherine (2003). The Czech mobile ‘e’: an Optimality Theoretic approach. University of Cambridge. (PDF)
Schulze, Jan (2003). An Optimality-Theoretic account of the development of Old High German Umlaut. University of Cambridge.
Qualifying Paper (~MA) Supervisees
Oakden, Christopher (2018). Stress in a pitch-accent language: an acoustic analysis of Lithuanian grave syllables. Qualifying Paper, Rutgers University. (PDF)
Blum, Eileen (2018). Allophony-driven stress in Munster Irish. Qualifying Paper, Rutgers University.
Mitchley, Hazel (2018). Tonal Units: Shift and spread reconsidered. Qualifying Paper, Rutgers University. (Co-chairperson with Prof. Akinbiyi Akinlabi).
Shih, Shu-hao (2014). Sonority-driven stress in Gujarati. Qualifying Paper. Rutgers University. (Published as 10.1017/S0952675718000064)
Haghverdi, Vartan (2014). Armenian schwa: A phonetic and phonological analysis. Qualifying Paper. Rutgers University. (PDF)
McManus, Hope (2012). Level ordering and productivity constraints on suffix combinations in English. Qualifying Paper. Rutgers University.
Staroverov, Peter (2010). Opacity in Lardil. Qualifying Paper. Rutgers University.
O’Keefe, Michael (2006). Area identity: A theory of harmony. Qualifying Paper, Rutgers University.
Koak, Heeshin (2006). Allomorph selection of Korean nominal markers. Qualifying Paper, Rutgers University. (Co-Chairperson with Prof. Akinbiyi Akinlabi).
Murray, Sarah (2006). Selectivity and voicing assimilation. Qualifying Paper, Rutgers University. (Co-Chairperson with Prof. Alan Prince).
Honors thesis supervisees
Orejarena, Francisco (2018). Nevisian phonology. Honors Thesis, Linguistics Department.
Kenny, Megan (2018). Syntactic and pragmatic prosody in ASD. Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Honors Thesis. Co-supervised with Karin Stromswold (Department of Psychology).
Schrum, Nick (2017). Polysyllabic shortening in Spanish and French. Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Honors Thesis. Co-supervised with Karin Stromswold (Department of Psychology).
Knutson, Sten (2017). Polysyllabic shortening. Co-supervised with Karin Stromswold (Department of Psychology).
Mayro, Aldo (2016). Polysyllabic shortening. Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Honors Thesis. Co-supervised with Karin Stromswold (Department of Psychology).
Lai, MeLinh (2015). Acoustic correlates of syntactic structure. Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Honors Thesis. Co-supervised with Karin Stromswold (Department of Psychology). [Henry Rutgers Scholar Award winner for outstanding thesis.]
Ray, Jessica (2014). [l]-vocalization in Jay-Z’s speech and performance. Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Rutgers University.
Fremed, Ariel (2013). The L1 optimal continuous use speaker (LOCUS): Methodology and current practices in phonology. Undergraduate Thesis, Rutgers University. [PDF]
Opper, Michael (2010). The morpho-phonology of certain Hakka Dialects. Thesis, Rutgers University. Supervised with Richard Simmons (Department of Chinese).
Al Ghamdi, Ahmed (2006). The phonetics and phonology of Riyadh Saudi Arabic intonation. Independent Study Project. Rutgers University.
Rafferty, Justin (2006). Absolute neutralization in German. Independent Study Project. Rutgers University.
Qualifying Paper (~MA) advisees
Selvanathan, Naga (2012). Tamil phonology. Qualifying Paper. Rutgers University (Chair: Alan Prince). (Visiting Fellow at the National University of Singapore)
Staroverov, Peter (2011). On Russian word-final [tl] clusters. Qualifying Paper. Rutgers University. (Chair: Shigeto Kawahara). (Apple)
Braver, Aaron (2010). On incomplete neutralization. Qualifying Paper. Rutgers University (Chair: Shigeto Kawahara). (Associate Prof, Texas Tech University)
Perkins, Jeremy (2008). Phonetics and phonology of Thai consonant-tone interaction. Qualifying Paper, Rutgers University (Chair: Shigeto Kawahara). (Research fellow, International Christian University)
Altshuler, Daniel (2006). Filling the gap: Quantity-insensitive iambs and the typology of feet. Qualifying Paper, Rutgers University. (Chair: Alan Prince). [PDF] (Published in IJAL 75.3: 365-398) (Professor, Oxford University)
My laboratory research assistants
Fall 2014: Caitlin Celedano, Jessica Cody, Sarah Elzayat, Ariana Lutz, Pooja Patel, Jillian Van Brunt. Glossolalia Project. Analysts.
Fall 2012-Spring 2013: Maureen McGuiness and Bryton McGrath. The Phonology Methodology Database Project, coordinators.
Spring 2013: Abbad, Abdul, Jeffrey Adler, Danielle Denisenko, Cara Feldscher, Aubrey Frehner, Ariel Fremed, Jude Lafleur, Brianna Losardo, Maureen Maramba, Jenna Stern, Robin Wright. The Phonology Methodology Database Project, contributor
Fall 2012: Abbad, Abdul, Jeff Adler, Chelsea Colonello, Danielle Denisenko, Teresa Ducsak, Cara Feldscher, Ariel Fremed, Ala Hassan, Jude Lafleur, Brianna Losardo, Maureen Maramba, Jenna Stern, Robin Wright. The Phonology Methodology Database Project, contributors.
Fall 2011-Spring 2012: Ariel Fremed, Bryton McGrath
Spring 2011: Georgia Simon
Fall 2010: Lindsey Charbonneau, Peter Fabian, Georgia Simon, Jamie Johnson
Spring 2010: Daniel Rotundo, Kevin Rosenfield
Fall 2009: Lindsey Charbonneau, Brian Chen, Molly Josephson, Dakota Killpack, Amanda Litchkowski, Kaitlyn McNerlin, Michael Opper, Kevin Rosenfield, Daniel Rotundo, Allan Schwade, June Sultan, Jesse Zymet
Spring 2009: Kortney Babington, Adrienne DeWitt, Michael Opper, Katarzyna Lupinska, and Mathias Bullerman (2009, Spring).
Co-authors/-editors/-presenters
de Lacy, Paul (ed.-in-chief) (2004); Marc Richards and Lluïsa Astruc (eds.). Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics 1. University of Cambridge.
Blum, Eileen, Paul de Lacy, Vartan Haghverdi, Chris Oakden, & Shu-hao Shih (forthcoming 2027). Non-metrical stress: Theory & evidence.
Bye, Patrik & Paul de Lacy (2008). Metrical influences on lenition and fortition. In Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho, Tobias Scheer, and Philippe Ségéral (eds.) Lenition and Fortition. Studies in Generative Grammar 99. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton, pp. 173-206. doi: 10.1515/9783110211443.1.173
de Lacy, Paul (2007). Freedom, Interpretability, and the Loop. In Sylvia Blaho, Patrik Bye, and Martin Krämer (eds.). Freedom of Analysis? Studies in Generative Grammar (SSG) 95. Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 86-118.
Bye, Patrik & Paul de Lacy (2000). Edge asymmetries in Phonology and Morphology, In Masako Hirotani, Andries Coetzee, Nancy Hall, and Ji-Yung Kim (eds.) Proceedings of NELS (North-eastern Linguistics Society conference) 30, Vol. 1. Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications, pp. 121-135. ROA 328.
Carpenter, Angela, Andries Coetzee and Paul de Lacy (eds.) (2003). Papers in Optimality Theory II. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers (UMOP) 26. Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications.
Carpenter, Angela, Andries Coetzee and Paul de Lacy (eds.) (2003). Papers in Optimality Theory II. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers (UMOP) 26. Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications.
Blum, Eileen, Paul de Lacy, Vartan Haghverdi, Chris Oakden, & Shu-hao Shih (forthcoming 2027). Non-metrical stress: Theory & evidence.
Jardine, Adam and Paul de Lacy (eds.) (forthcoming in February 2027). The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press. doi: {not yet assigned}. ISBN: 9781009436380
de Lacy, Paul (ed.-in-chief) (2004); Marc Richards and Lluïsa Astruc (eds.). Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics 1. University of Cambridge
de Lacy, Paul and John Kingston (2013). Synchronic Explanation. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 31.2: 287-355.
DOI: 10.1007/s11049-013-9191-y
Kitto, Catherine and Paul de Lacy (1999). Correspondence theory and epenthetic quality. In Catherine Kitto and Carolyn Smallwood (eds.) Proceedings of AFLA (Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association) VI. Toronto: Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, pp.181-200. ROA 337; http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~twpl/volume16.htm
Lai, Melinh*, Paul de Lacy, Gwen Rehrig, and Karin Stromswold (2016). Predicting whether a sentence will be passive. March 5th, 2016, Eastern Psychological Association Conference, New York Marriott Marquis, New York, NY.
de Lacy, Paul and Anita Nowak (eds.) (2000). Papers from the 25th Anniversary. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers (UMOP) 24. Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications.
Blum, Eileen, Paul de Lacy, Vartan Haghverdi, Chris Oakden, & Shu-hao Shih (forthcoming 2027). Non-metrical stress: Theory & evidence
Lai, Melinh*, Paul de Lacy, Gwen Rehrig, and Karin Stromswold (2016). Predicting whether a sentence will be passive. March 5th, 2016, Eastern Psychological Association Conference, New York Marriott Marquis, New York, NY
de Lacy, Paul (ed.-in-chief) (2004); Marc Richards and Lluïsa Astruc (eds.). Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics 1. University of Cambridge.
Blum, Eileen, Paul de Lacy, Vartan Haghverdi, Chris Oakden, & Shu-hao Shih (forthcoming 2027). Non-metrical stress: Theory & evidence
Shih, Shu-hao & Paul de Lacy (2022). How we know what we don’t know. Talk at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Shih, Shu-hao and Paul de Lacy (2020). Evidence for sonority-driven stress. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 18: 9-40 doi: 10.5565/rev/catjl.25
Simon, Georgia and Paul de Lacy (2011). A model of B’s glossolalia. Great Lakes Expo for Experimental and Formal Undergraduate Linguistics (GLEEFUL) 2011, Michigan State University.
de Lacy, Paul and Peter Staroverov (forthcoming in Feb 2027). Deletion, epenthesis, coalescence, and splitting in Theory. In Adam Jardine and Paul de Lacy (eds.)The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press. pages: {not yet assigned}. doi: {not yet assigned}
Lai, Melinh*, Paul de Lacy, Gwen Rehrig, and Karin Stromswold (2016). Predicting whether a sentence will be passive. March 5th, 2016, Eastern Psychological Association Conference, New York Marriott Marquis, New York, NY
de Lacy, Paul and Caro Struijke (2000). Explaining overkill in dissimilation. North-Eastern Linguistics Society Conference 31. Georgetown University, Washington.
Supervisors and Advisors
Advisor: de Lacy, Paul (2002). The formal expression of markedness. Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications. ROA 542
Advisor: de Lacy, Paul (2002). The formal expression of markedness. Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications. ROA 542
Supervisor: de Lacy, Paul (1997). Prosodic categorization, MA Thesis. Rutgers Optimality Archive#236.
Supervisor: de Lacy, Paul (2002). The formal expression of markedness. Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications. ROA 542
Advisor: de Lacy, Paul (2002). The formal expression of markedness. Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications. ROA 542
Advisor: de Lacy, Paul (2002). The formal expression of markedness. Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications. ROA 542