This paper examines the factors conditioning the production of linguistic variables in real
time by individual speakers: what we term the dynamics of variation in individuals. We …

It is well known that syntax matters to phonology, but does phonology matter to syntax? This
question is controversial, partly because judging whether a phenomenon is syntactic or …

This dissertation defends a strong version of the view that linguistic surface complexity is the
product of interactions between deep syntactic mechanisms and shallow interface-specific …

This dissertation, which is situated in broad debates over the delineation of abstract
grammatical knowledge from the use of language in context, argues for distinct but …

The present paper presents a multimodel inference approach to linguistic variation,
expanding on prior work by Kuperman and Bresnan (2012). We argue that corpus data often …

The goal of this dissertation is to take generalizations made in a variety of phonological and
morphological theories and account for them in a piece-based syntactic theory of …

The existence of a shared constraint hierarchy is one of the criteria that defines and delimits
speech communities. In particular, women and men are thought to differ only in their rates of …

The traditional focus of variationist sociolinguistic research is the patterning of language
variation at the level of the community, which individual language users are said to learn …

Usage-based constructionist approaches see language as an inventory of constructions at
different levels of schematicity learned from the input. If so, personal constructicons should …

Prosodic end-weight refers to the well-documented tendency of prosodically heavier
constituents to be preferred at the ends of domains when other factors (eg semantics …