Research interests
My main area of interest is linguistics, in particular phonology. My work is generally formulated in the framework of Optimality Theory. Language interests include in particular Swiss German, but also Austronesian.
TALKS papers
- TALKS 1 - Emergence of the Unmarked in Ponapean Nasal Substitution
- TALKS 3 - Syllable recycling reduplication : A specific result of a comprehensive theory of infixing reduplication
- TALKS 6 - Dispersion Theory and Reduplicative Fixed Segmentism
- TALKS 7 - Some Phonological and Morphological Patterns in the Latin Noun Declension System
- TALKS 8 - Fully Distributing Morphology: The Phonology and Syntax of Latin Case Inflections
- TALKS 13 - On some phonological properties of the mimetic vocabulary component of Japanese
- TALKS 14 - Phonology driven Morphology
- TALKS 24 - Lexeme frequency and intercultural communication
- TALKS 25 - On the Pronunciation of Low Vowels in Japanese Newscaster’s Speech
Old Papers and Handouts
- A Constraint-Based Theory of Reduplication Patterns (1995)
- Stress and final exceptionality in West Tarangan [handout] (1995)
- A Feature Geometric Account of ǃXóõ Bushman (1992)
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