Turkic languages have been shown to form words using a wide range of word-formation
strategies, such as suffixation, cliticization, and auxiliaries. The present paper offers a …

Phonotactic learning has been a fertile ground for research in the field of phonology.
However, the challenge of lexical exceptions in phonotactic learning remains largely …

This paper examines a case of phonological opacity in Uyghur that results from an
interaction between backness harmony and a vowel reduction process that converts …

In this dissertation, I establish a research program that uses computational modeling as a
testbed for theories of phonological learning. This dissertation focuses on a fundamental …

O gradience, where art thou? Examining backness harmony in Uyghur Adam G. McCollum⸙,
Karthik Durvasula†, and Xiayimaierdan A Page 1 1 O gradience, where art thou? Examining …

When the only vowels in a stem are/i, e/, some co-occur with front suffixes (3a, b), and others
occur with back suffixes (3c, d). This has led some (Lindblad 1990; Hahn 1991 a, b) to posit …