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Curriculum Vitae [pdf]

Professor Emeritus (retired), Department of Linguistics at Rutgers The State University of New Jersey

Honorary Associate Professor, School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics, University of Auckland

Research

My specialties are the phonological module and its interfaces. My current concerns are evidence for Generative phonological theories, modularity, and markedness. See my publications or read more about my research.

Recent(ish) Events
March 2024: Talk at the Wilmington Club: The science of speaking in Tongues

January 2024: Colloquium talk at Dallas International University: How the brain speaks in Tongues.

March 2022: With Shu-hao Shih. Colloquium talk at the University of Massachusetts Amherst: How we know we don't know.

January 2020: Colloquium talk at the University of Auckland, New Zealand: Are linguistic methods valid?

March 15-16, 2019: Invited talk at Phonological Theory Agora, Nice, France: Markedness: A tutorial.

My PhD supervisees

Shu-hao Shih (2018). Non-moraic schwa: Phonology and phonetics. (Now Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University)

Luca Iacoponi (2018). Phonological agreement by feature correspondence (co-supervised with Prof Adam Jardine) (Now Research Scientist, Amazon)

Peter Staroverov (2014). Splitting Theory and consonant epenthesis. (Now Assistant Professor, Wayne State University)
Seunghun Lee (2008). The interaction of tone and laryngeal features (co-supervised with Akinbiyi Akinlabi) (Now Associate Professor, International Christian University, Japan)

Katherine Gürtler (née Ketner) (2007). Size restrictions in prosodic morphology (now Professor, OTH Regensburg)

Some Research (see Publications for more)

Jardine, Adam and Paul de Lacy (forthcoming 2025). The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press.

de Lacy, Paul (forthcoming 2025). Asymmetries. In Adam Jardine & Paul de Lacy (eds.)The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press.

de Lacy, Paul (2020). Do morphophonological exchange rules exist? A reply to DiCanio et al (2020). Phonological Data & Analysis 2.4 [PDF]
Shih, Shu-hao and Paul de Lacy (2019). Evidence for sonority-driven stress. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 18: 9-40. [PDF]

de Lacy, Paul (2019). The feature [stress]. In Harrison Adeniyi, Olyesye Adesola, Francis Egbokhare, Eno-Abasi Urua (eds.) Festschrift for Akinbiyi Akinlabi. [PDF]

de Lacy, Paul (2017). Phonological Typology by Matthew K. Gordon (review). Language 93.2: 481-484

de Lacy, Paul. (2016). Theoretical Phonology. In Mark Aronoff (ed.) The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. OUP.

de Lacy, Paul (2014). Evaluating evidence for stress systems. In Harry van der Hulst (ed) Word stress: Theoretical and typological issues. CUP, pp. 149-193. [pdf]

de Lacy, Paul and John Kingston (2013) Synchronic explanation.Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. [prepub pdf]

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Most Cited [according to Google Scholar]

de Lacy, Paul (ed.) (2007). The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology. Cambridge University Press. [link]

de Lacy, Paul (2006). Markedness. Cambridge University Press. [link]

de Lacy, Paul (2004). Markedness conflation in Optimality Theory. Phonology 21.2: 145-199. [link]

de Lacy, Paul (2002). The formal expression of markedness. Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. [link]

de Lacy, Paul (2002). The interaction of tone and stress in Optimality Theory. Phonology 19.1: 1-32. [link]

Kitto, Catherine & Paul de Lacy (1999). Correspondence and epenthetic quality. In Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 16.2: 181-200. [link]

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