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I am a sixth-year graduate student in the Linguistics Department at the Ohio State University. Hudson is a sixth-year golden retriever.
I am interested in phonological theory and the interfaces of phonology with phonetics and morphology. Hudson is interested in this toy.

Right now I'm working on my dissertation, whose working title is "The emergence of distinctive features"

My CV.

My publications:

(2003) “The Interplay of Speech Perception and Phonology: Experimental Evidence from Turkish” Phonetica 60.3: 208-229

(2003) “Looking through opacity” (with Mike Armstrong and Elizabeth Hume) Theoretical Linguistics 29.1-2: 123-139.

(2003) “The Diachronic Influence of Perception: Experimental Evidence from Turkish” to appear in Proceedings of BLS 29.

(2002) “Turkish /h/ deletion: evidence for the interplay of speech perception and phonology” in Hirotani, M., ed., Proceedings of NELS 32. GLSA, Amherst, MASS. 383-402. (also appears in Hall, T.A., Bernd Pompino-Marschall, Marzena Rochon, eds., The Articulation, Acoustics, and Perception of Consonants, ZAS Papers in Linguistics 28, pp. 55-72)

(2001) “Perception in phonology: the case of Turkish /h/ deletion” in Andronis, M., C. Ball, H. Elston and S. Neuvel, eds., CLS 37: The Panels. Papers from the 37th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Vol. 2. Chicago: CLS. 59-72.

(2001) “Considerations of Word Recognition for Metathesis” (with Elizabeth Hume) in Hume, E., N. Smith & J. van de Weijer, eds., Surface Syllable Structure and Segment Sequencing. Leiden: HIL. 135-158.

(2001) “Explaining directional asymmetry in Turkish [h] deletion: A crosslinguistic study of perceptibility” in Hume, E. and K. Johnson, eds., The Interplay of Speech Perception and Phonology, OSUWPL, vol. 55.

(2000) Review of C. Gussenhoven and H. Jacobs (1998) Understanding Phonology (with Elizabeth Hume). Phonology 17.2. 281-286.

Some recent talks and older papers:

What ambivalent segments can tell us about the universality of distinctive features (handout from LSA 2004)

How to explain natural classes without universal distinctive features (handout from MOT 2003)

/h/ perceptibility in Turkish, Arabic, English and French (paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Contrast in Phonology)

Hudson's current interests: 
  • The doorknob principle
  • other dogs
  • cats
  • plush toys
  • non-plush toys
  • entropy
  • swivel chairs
  • laser pointers
  • trucks
I am from Vancouver, Washington, which is not to be confused with Vancouver, B.C., or Washington D.C.  It's a suburb of Portland, OR, which is not to be confused with Portland, ME. Hudson is from Morrow County, OH.
I expect to recieve a PhD in Linguistics from the Ohio State University in 2004. I got an MA in Linguistics at OSU in 1999, a BA in Linguistics and a BA in Japanese from the University of Washington in 1997, and an AA from Clark College in 1994. Hudson may be attending obedience school very soon.  He has no idea.
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