This extensive survey of consonant harmony in the world's languages reveals surprising
diversity in the featural dimensions involved, and uncovers new empirical generalizations …

The central claim of this dissertation is that aspect-based split ergativity does not mark a split
in how Case is assigned, but rather, a split in sentence structure. Specifically, I argue that the …

This paper presents an overview of the phonetics and phonology of Mayan languages. The
focus is primarily descriptive, but the article also attempts to frame the sound patterns of …

In this dissertation, I argue for a theory of long-distance consonant dissimilation based on
Surface Correspondence, correspondence that holds over the different consonants …

This thesis presents a phonological theory of assimilation as feature spreading. The main
contribution is the idea that association lines between a feature and a root node are of …

The most comprehensive work on dissimilation (the avoidance or repair of combinations of
similar sounds) to date, this book proposes a novel analysis that handles dissimilation as the …

We develop a novel optimization approach to tone. Its grammatical component consists of
the similarity-and proximity-based correspondence constraint framework of Agreement by …

Uspanteko is an endangered Mayan language spoken by up to 6000 people in the
Guatemalan highlands. We provide an overview of the phonetics and phonology of …

Nonlocal phonological patterns such as vowel harmony and long-distance consonant
assimilation and dissimilation motivate representations that include only the interacting …

In this paper, I present an analysis of the typology of laryngeal co-occurrence restrictions
based on contrast markedness. The key ingredient of the analysis, for which I provide …