Publications

In press. Multilingual learning with parameter co-occurrence clustering (with Jason Riggle, Max Bane, and John Sylak). Proc. NELS 39. (preprint, please do not cite without permission)

2007. Erculator: A Web application for constraint-based phonology (with Jason Riggle, Max Bane, Edward King, Heather Rivers, Evelyn Rosas, and John Sylak). In M. Becker (ed.), University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 36: Papers in Theoretical and Computational Phonology.

2007. Lexical and phonotactic effects on wordlikeness judgments in Cantonese (with Alan Yu). Proc. ICPhS 17, 1389-1392.

Manuscripts

2006. The phonetics of Northern Vietnamese. In Vietnamese Online Grammar, ed. Nigel Duffield.

2006. Vietnamese and the structure of NP.

Software

2008. vPhon: a Vietnamese phonetizer (version 0.2.4).

I was involved in the early stages of development of the Erculator, a tool for checking the consistency of Optimality-Theoretic tableaux.

I have also worked on Linguistica, a C++/Qt based automatic morphological analyzer, developed by John Goldsmith.

Posters, handouts, and conference presentations

Tonal similarity and tone perception in Vietnamese. 19th Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistic Society, Saigon, 29 May 2009.

Linguistic experience in tone perception. 2nd ASA Workshop on Cross-Language Speech Perception, Portland, 23 May 2009.

Spectral cues to voice quality in Vietnamese. Conference on Languages of Southeast Asia, UCLA, 1 Feb 2009.

Comparative-induced event measure relations. LSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 10 Jan 2009.

Morphological paradigm effects on vowel realization (with Alan Yu). LSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 8 Jan 2009.

Multilingual learning with parameter co-occurrence clustering (with Jason Riggle, Max Bane and John Sylak). NELS 39, Cornell, 8 Nov 2008.

Morphological paradigm effects on vowel realization (with Alan Yu). Workshop on Language and Cognition, Chicago, 30 May 2008.

Morphological paradigm effects on vowel realization (with Alan Yu). 14th Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, Madison, 3 May 2008.

Distinguishing grammars in multilingual learning using parameter cooccurrence (with Jason Riggle, Max Bane, and John Sylak). LSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, 5 Jan 2008.

Gradient and categorical constraints: evidence from Cantonese (with Alan Yu). Workshop on Variation, Gradience and Frequency in Phonology Poster Session, Stanford, 7 Jul 2007.

Hidden knowledge of syllable gap wellformedness (with Alan Yu). Experimental Approaches to Optimality Theory, Ann Arbor, 19 May 2007.

Efficiently computing OT typologies (with Jason Riggle, Max Bane, and Jeremy O'Brien). LSA Annual Meeting, Anaheim, 7 Jan 2007.

Information content and implicational structure in Czech nominal morphology. 12th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, 27 May 2006.

Intrusive Vowels in Cruceño Spanish (with Cindy Kilpatrick and Kathryn McGee). 4th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, 2 Dec 2006.

Implicational structure in Czech nominal morphology. XVII International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, 1 Aug 2005.