Publications and Presentations
This webpage is a list of my presentations by type.
You can find a full list of my publications and presentations in my CV: [pdf]
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Colloquia
de Lacy, Paul (2024). How the brain speaks in Tongues. Colloquium Talk, Dallis International University.
Shih, Shu-hao and Paul de Lacy (2022). How we know we don’t know. Colloquium Talk, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
de Lacy, Paul (2020). Are linguistic methods valid? Colloquium Talk, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
de Lacy, Paul (2017). What we know about stress. Colloquium Talk, University of Delaware.
de Lacy, Paul (2015). Validity in Generative Phonology Research. Colloquium Talk, University of Southern California. [ref list]
de Lacy, Paul (2015). Does sonority-driven stress exist? University of Barcelona.
de Lacy, Paul (2013). Evidence for universals: Sonority-driven stress. Language Universals Workshop series, Harvard Linguistics Circle, Department of Linguistics, Harvard University.
de Lacy, Paul (2013). What we don’t know about phonology. CLaS-CCD Research Colloquium Series, Centre for Language Sciences (CLaS) and Centre of Excellence for Cognition and its Disorders (CCD), Macquarie University, Australia.
de Lacy, Paul (2011). Evidence for the Maori passive. Linguistics Department, Cornell University.
de Lacy, Paul (2008). Poverty of the evidence. Linguistics department, Princeton University.
de Lacy, Paul (2008). Vacuous coalescence and absolute neutralization: A new theory of mutation. Network on Exponence, Leipzig Germany.
de Lacy, Paul (2007). Glossolalia as a targetless L2: Initial results. Linguistics department, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
de Lacy, Paul (2006). Competence markedness vs. other markednesses. Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University.
de Lacy, Paul (2006). Principles of C-Markedness. Linguistics department, University of Pennsylvania.
de Lacy, Paul (2005). Phonological evidence. Linguistics department, City University of New York (CUNY).
de Lacy, Paul (2005). Markedness exists. Linguistics department, State University of New York, Stony Brook.
de Lacy, Paul (2005). Markedness exists. Linguistics department, University of Delaware.
de Lacy, Paul (2004). The phonology of glossolalia. School of Languages, Linguistics, and Cultures, University of Manchester (UK).
de Lacy, Paul (2004). The interpretive loop. Linguistics department, Stanford University.
de Lacy, Paul (2003). Opacity is parallel. Linguistics department, University of York (UK).
de Lacy, Paul (2003). Formalizing markedness in Optimality Theory. Linguistics department, Newcastle University (UK).
de Lacy, Paul (2003). Markedness hierarchies and conflation. Stanford University.
de Lacy, Paul (2003). The meaning of markedness in Optimality Theory. The Cambridge Linguistic Society, Cambridge (UK).
de Lacy, Paul (2002). A formal theory of ‘exchange rules’: Morpheme distinctiveness in DhoLuo. Phonology Reading Group presentation, University College London (UK).
de Lacy, Paul (2002). A formal theory of markedness symmetries and asymmetries. Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, University College London.
de Lacy, Paul (2001). The feature [sonority] in sonority-driven stress. Haskins Laboratories.
de Lacy, Paul (2000). Architecture at the Interpretive Interface. Concordia University (Montreal, Canada).
de Lacy, Paul (2000). Maximal words. Rutgers Optimality Research Group, Rutgers University.
de Lacy, Paul (2000). Prosodic conditions on Maori allomorphy. University of Auckland, New Zealand.
de Lacy, Paul (2000). The effects of interpretation on form. Phonology Circle presentation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
de Lacy, Paul (1999). Tone and prominence. Rutgers Optimality Research Group, Rutgers University.
Conferences
Invited
de Lacy, Paul (2019). Markedness: A Tutorial. Phonological Theory Agora. Invited Keynote talk, University of Nice, Nice, France. March 16, 2019.
de Lacy, Paul (2016). The evidentiary enterprise. Conference on Dealing with Bad Data in Linguistic Theory, Invited Keynote talk, Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. March 17, 2016.
de Lacy, Paul (2015). Automating acoustic evidence for phonological structures. RuLing X (Rutgers Linguistics Graduate Conference), Rutgers University.
de Lacy, Paul (2015). The theory of Generative Evidence. OCP (Old World Conference in Phonology) 12, Keynote talk (main session), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Universitat de Barcelona.
de Lacy, Paul (2013). The inadequacy of evidence for sonority-driven stress. Keynote talk, Workshop on Universality and Variability in segment-prosody interactions, part of the Linguistic Institute’s University and Variability series, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan).
de Lacy, Paul (2011). The limits of the grammar’s influence on diachronic change. Invited talk. Dialects in Contact conference. University of Ghent, Belgium.
de Lacy, Paul (2011). Evaluating the quality of stress data. The 2nd UConn Workshop on Stress and Accent. University of Connecticut, Storrs.
de Lacy, Paul (2008). The absolutely neutralizing theory of mutation. Network on Core Mechanisms of Exponence. Leipzig, Germany.
de Lacy, Paul (2003). Fixed ranking and the ‘Too Many Solutions’ problem. Invited talk, CASTL Kick-Off Conference, University of Tromsø, Norway.
de Lacy, Paul (2001). Maximal words and the Māori passive. Keynote talk. Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association Conference 8, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
de Lacy, Paul and Catherine Kitto (1999). A correspondence theory of epenthetic quality. Keynote talk. Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association Conference 8, University of Toronto.
Refereed
de Lacy, Paul (2007). The formal properties of phonological precedence. Conference on precedence in phonology. CUNY Phonology Circle. City University of New York.
de Lacy, Paul (2001). Conflation and the formal expression of hierarchies. North-Eastern Linguistics Society Conference 32. City University of New York.
de Lacy, Paul and Caro Struijke (2000). Explaining overkill in dissimilation. North-Eastern Linguistics Society Conference 31. Georgetown University, Washington.
de Lacy, Paul (2000). Markedness in prominent positions. Harvard-MIT Student Conference in Linguistics (HUMIT), Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
de Lacy, Paul (2000). Heads, non-heads, and tone in a theory of prominence. Tromsø Tone Symposium: 5th Annual International Tromsø Workshop in Linguistics, University of Tromsø, Norway.
Bye, Patrik and Paul de Lacy (1999). Edge asymmetries in Phonology and Morphology. North-Eastern Linguistics Society Conference 30.
de Lacy, Paul (1999). Parsing-out circumscription in Optimality Theory. Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association Conference 6. University of Toronto.
de Lacy, Paul (1999). Morpheme order and correspondence. West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics 18, University of Arizona.
Non-refereed
de Lacy, Paul (2007). Featural morphemes are coalescing segments. Presentation, Meeting of the Network on Morphological Exponence, University of Leipzig, Germany.
de Lacy, Paul (1999). Haplologizing reduplicants. Rutgers-UMass Joint Class Meeting 4, Rutgers University.
de Lacy, Paul (1998). Positional markedness in Niuafo’ou. Rutgers-UMass Joint Class Meeting 3, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Non-Academic
de Lacy, Paul (2024). The science of speaking in Tongues. The Wilmington Club, VA.