John A. Goldsmith
Electronic mail:
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59th Street
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Chicago
IL
60637
(773)
667-6228
Academic
Positions
1984 -
present. University of
Chicago.
Present position (appointed to
rank in 1997):
Edward
Carson Waller Distinguished
Service Professor, Departments of Linguistics and Computer Science
Senior Fellow, Computation
Institute of Argonne National Laboratory and the
University of
Chicago (appointed 1999).
Committee on
Computational Neuroscience.
1991-1995: Chairman of Department
of Linguistics.
1991-1992: Director, Center for
Information and Languages Studies.
2003
(Summer) Visiting Professor, Michigan State University/LSA Linguistics
Institute.
1995-1996;
1997, 1998: Winter quarter. Visiting Scholar, Microsoft
Research, Redmond WA.
1976 -
1984. Indiana
University: Assistant Professor,
Associate Professor, Professor of Linguistics.
1987 (Summer)
Visiting Professor, Stanford University/LSA Linguistics Institute.
1983 (Summer)
Visiting Professor, University of
California at Los Angeles/LSA
Linguistics Institute.
1982 (Summer)
Visiting Professor, University of
Maryland/LSA Linguistics
Institute.
1982 (Spring) Visiting Professor,
University of
California at
San
Diego.
1980 (Summer)
Professeur invité, Université du Québec à Montréal.
1979-1980 Andrew Mellon Faculty Fellow,
Harvard
University.
1977 (Summer)
Visiting Professor, McGill
University.
Awards
and Grants
Subcontract with LCC on ARDA
project developing morphologies automatically from raw corpora.
2003-2005.
Grant
from Argonne National Laboratory/University of
Chicago for work on
applying automatic morphological analysis to information retrieval. 1999-2001.
Finalist, 1997 Discover
Magazine Technology Award, for SpeakEasy prosody program.
Faculty
Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching,
University of
Chicago, June 1995.
National Science Foundation Research Grant. 1990-1992. "Harmonic Phonology."
Québécois
Faculty Research Grant, 1989. Project: Research on
Langue des signes québécoise.
American Council of Learned Societies, Grant-in-Aid, 1987.
Project: Analytic History of Themes
in Recent Transformational Syntax
Award of Faculty Research Grant, Canadian Government, 1987.
Project: Research on Langue des signes
québécoise.
Award of Center fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences, Stanford,
California,
1985.
National Science Foundation Research Grant. 1984-1987.
"Theoretical Consequences of Comparative Bantu Tone Studies"
Fulbright
African Research Faculty Fellowship, 1984 (declined).
Andrew Mellon Faculty Fellowship,
Harvard
University. 1979-1980; renewed 1980-1981
(declined).
1976: PhD
in linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1972: AB
with honors in philosophy, mathematics and economics,
Swarthmore
College.
Linguistics
Society of America:
Language Editorial Advisory Committee:
1991-1994.
Language Review Committee:. Chair, 1983. Member, 1982.
Executive
Committee: 1988-1990.
Web
page committee, 2002 - date.
Computation
committee, chair: 2003 - date.
Board of the University of
Chicago
Press. 1990-1994.
Co-editor, Studies in Contemporary Linguistics,
University of
Chicago Press.
Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Senior Fulbright
Awards), Discipline Committee for Linguistics. Chair,
1987. Member,
1985-1986.
Editor,
Journal of Linguistic Research,
1980-1983.
Associate
Editor, Linguistic Inquiry 1980 -
1987.
Editorial
Board
Natural Language and Linguistic
Theory (through 1986)
Revue québécoise de linguistique
(through 1991)
Phonology Yearbook (Cambridge
University Press) (through 1991)
Journal of African Languages and
Linguistics (through 1987)
Former consulting editor, Cognitive Linguistics
Scientific Advisory Board, Lincom Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
(1994-)
Executive Committee, Association for Computational Linguistics,
Special interest group in computational phonology, 2001- date.
Publications
The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable
Mentor for Scholars from
Graduate School through Tenure. John Goldsmith, John
Komlos, and Penny Schein Gold. 2001. The
University of Chicago Press.
Phonological Theory: The Essential
Readings. 1999.
Edited by J.
Goldsmith.
Oxford:
Basil
Blackwell.
Handbook of Phonological
Theory. 1995. Edited by
J.
Goldsmith.
Oxford:
Basil
Blackwell.
Ideology and Linguistic Theory:
Noam Chomsky and the Deep Structure Debates. 1995. With Geoffrey Huck.
London: Routledge.
The Last Phonological Rule: Reflections on
Constraints and Derivations. 1993. Edited, and with two chapters by JG. University of
Chicago
Press. A collection of papers on the concept of
derivation in phonology.
Syntax and Human Experience, by
Nicolas
Ruwet: translated and edited by
J.
Goldsmith. 1991.
University of
Chicago Press.
Autosegmental and Metrical
Phonology. 1990. Oxford:
Basil Blackwell, Ltd.
Autosegmental Studies in
Bantu Tone, ed. by G.N. Clements and John Goldsmith. 1984.
Dordrecht: Foris Press.
Autosegmental Phonology. 1979.
Garland Press. Published version of MIT dissertation,
1976; also circulated by
Indiana
University Linguistics Club, 1976-date. Korean translation published, 1991,
Seoul.
2004
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Review
article on The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and information
into the 21st century. Edited by Bruce Nevin.
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Autosegmental Phonology and Underspecification Theory (with M. Noske).
To appear in History of the Language
Sciences, edited by S. Auroux, K. Koerner, H.-J. Niederehe, and K. Versteegh.
Berlin, New York:
Walter de Gruyter.
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Editors' introduction to
special issue on the History of Phonology in the 20th century
(with Bernard Laks).
Folia Linguistica XXXIV/1-2 1-10.
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Automatic Language-Specific Stemming in Information Retrieval (with
Derrick Higgins and Svetlana Soglasnova). In Carol Peters (ed.).
Cross-Language Information Retrieval and Evaluation: Proceedings of the
CLEF 2000 Workshop, pages 273-283. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Verlag.
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Las unidades subsegmentales
en la fonología española: enfoque autosegmental. In Panorama
de la fonología española actual, edited by Juana Gil Fernández, pp.
337-356. Translation of "Subsegmentals in Spanish Phonology: An Autosegmental
Approach" (1981) below.
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Linguistica: An Automatic
Morphological Analyzer. In Okrent, Arika and John Boyle (eds.). 2000. The
Proceedings from the Main Session of the Chicago Linguistic Society's Thirty-sixth
Meeting Volume 36-1. Chicago:
Chicago Linguistic
Society.
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Whistler:
A Trainable Text-To-Speech System (with Xuedong
Huang, Alex
Acero, Jim
Adcock, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Jingsong
Liu, and Mike
Plumpe). In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference
on Spoken Language Processing1996 (pp. 2387-2390). http://www.asel.udel.edu/icslp/cdrom/vol4/659/a659.pdf
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La Théorie Phonologique. In Fondements et Perspectives en Traitement Automatique
de la Parole, edited by Henri Méloni, pp. 175-184. Agence francophone pour l'enseignement
supérieur et la recherche (AUPELF-UREF): diffusion
Hachette.
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Tone
in Mituku: How a Floating Tone Nailed Down an Intermediate Level. In Current Trends in Phonology:
Models and Methods, edited by Jacques Durand and Bernard Laks.
CNRS, Paris-X and University of Salford.
University of Salford Publications.
(A revised version is to be published, as noted above, in 2002.)
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Grammar within a Neural Net. In The Reality of Linguistic Rules, edited
by Pamela Downing, Sue Lima, and Gregory Iverson, pp. 95-113. Philadelphia:
John Benjamins.
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Phonological Theory. In The Handbook of Phonological Theory, ed.
John Goldsmith, pp. 1-23. Oxford:
Basil Blackwell.
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Harmonic Phonology. In
The Last Phonological Rule, ed.
J. Goldsmith, pp. 21-60. Reprinted (i) in French translation, 1993, in De natura sonorum, edited by Bernard
Laks, Presses universitaires de Vincennes, pp. 221-269;
(ii) in Phonological Theory: The Essential Readings,
1999; (iii) Phonology: Critical Concepts
in Linguistics, ed. Charles Kreidler, 2001, Routledge, vol. 3, p. 594.
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Language and learning as properties
of our species. Modern Philology,
Supplement, pp. 34-38
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Secondary
Licensing and the Non-dominant Hand in ASL Phonology. With
Diane Brentari. In Current Issues in ASL Phonology:
Phonetics and Phonology 3, edited by Geoffrey Coulter, pp. 19-41.
New York: Academic Press.
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Using Networks in a Harmonic Phonology. With Gary Larson. In Papers from the 28th Annual Meeting of the
Chicago Linguistic Society, vol. 2, pp. 94-125, edited by Costas Canakis,
Grace Chan, and Jeannette Denton. Chicago:
Chicago Linguistics
Society.
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A Note on the Genealogy of Research Traditions in Modern Phonology.
Journal of Linguistics 28:149-163. An earlier version appeared under the
title "Phonological Theory and African Language Phonology," in Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 20(1): 49-62. Urbana:
Department of Linguistics.
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Local Modeling in Phonology. In Connectionism: Theory and Practice edited
by Steven Davis,
pp. 229-246. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
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Tone and Accent in Llogoori. In The Joy of Syntax, edited by D. Brentari,
G. Larson, and L. McLeod, pp. 73-94. Philadelphia: John
Benjamins
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Phonology as an Intelligent System. In Bridges Between Psychology
and Linguistics: A Swarthmore Festschrift for Lila Gleitman, edited by Donna Jo Napoli and Judy
Kegl, pp. 247-267. Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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Qu'est-ce qu'une phonologie d'une langue
des signes? Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique
et appliquée 10(1): 11-20.
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Tone and Accent in Xhosa (with Karen Peterson and Joseph Drogo).
Current Approaches to African Linguistics
(vol. 5), ed. Paul Newman
and Robert Botne,
pp. 157-177. Dordrecht: Foris
Publications.
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Local Modeling and Syllabification. With Gary Larson.
In Papers from the 26th Annual Regional Meeting
of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Part Two, edited
by K. M.
Ziolkowski, K.
Deaton, and M.
Noske, pp. 129-142. Chicago:
Chicago Linguistics
Society.
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Prosodic Trends in the Bantu Languages. In Autosegmental Studies in Pitch Accent,
edited by N. Smith and H. van der Hulst. Dordrecht:
Foris Publications.
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The Complementizer Signature. In Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages.
Philadelphia: John
Benjamins, edited by Janette
DeCesaris, pp. 115-128.
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Vowel Systems. Papers
from the Parasession on Autosegmental and Metrical Phonology, edited
by A. Bosch, B. Need, and E. Schiller,
pp. 116-133. Chicago:
Chicago Linguistic
Society.
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The Rise of Rhythmic Structure in Bantu. Phonologica 1984, ed. W. Dressler,
pp. 65-78 Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
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Stem
Tone Patterns of the Lacustrine Bantu Languages. Current Approaches to African Linguistics
(vol. 4), ed. David Odden, pp. 175-185.
Dordrecht: Foris Publications.
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Tone and Accent and Getting the Two Together. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting
of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, edited by Jon Aske, Natasha Beery,
Laura Michaelis, and Hana Filip, pp 88-104. Berkeley:
Berkeley Linguistics
Society.
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Comparing extratonality and extrametricality in KiKongo-type tone
systems. University of Chicago Working Papers in Linguistics
Volume 2. Chicago:
Department of Linguistics.
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Tone
in KiHunde. Wiener Linguistische
Gazette Beiheft 5: 49-72.ed. by John
Rennison. Vienna: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universitaet Wien.
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Sur les phrase du type "Elle a de qui tenir"
(with Jessie Pinkham) Revue québécoise de linguistique 15.2:273-78.
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A Principled Exception to the Coordinate Structure Constraint.
Papers from the 21st Meeting of the
Chicago Linguistics Society, edited by William
Eilfort, Paul
Kroeber, and Karen
Peterson.
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Tone
in Sukuma. In Studies in African
and General Linguistics, ed. D. L.
Goyvaerts, pp. 167-87. Amsterdam:
J. Benjamins.
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Vowel Harmony in Khalkha Mongolian, Yaka, Hungarian and Finnish.
Phonology Yearbook 2:253-75.
Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
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Tone
in the CiRuri Present Continuous. In The Phonological
Representation of Suprasegementals, edited by Koen Bogers, Harry van
der Hulst and Maarten Mous, pp. 95-107. Dordrecht:
Foris Publications.
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Causative
Verbs in English. In Parasession on Lexical Semantics, edited by David Testen, Veena Mishra, and
Joseph Drogo, pp. 117-130. Chicago:
Chicago Linguistics
Society. A semantic analysis of make, have, and get, inspired
by Nicolas Ruwet's work.
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Bantu
-a-: The Far Past in the Far Past. In Studies in African Linguistics,
Supplement 9: Precis from the
1984 African Linguistics Conference, ed. R.
Schuh, p. 123-127. Los Angeles:
University of California.
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Introduction. In Autosegmental Studies in Bantu Tone, edited
by G. N. Clements and J. Goldsmith (see citation above in book section),
pp. 1-17.
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Tone and Accent in Tonga. In Autosegmental Studies in Bantu Tone, edited
by G. N. Clements and J. Goldsmith (see citation above in book section),
pp. 19-51.
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Las oraciones
pseudo-hendidas en espanol.
In Aproximaciones a la syntaxis del
espanol: estudios sintacticos del espanol y el progreso de la teoria linguistica ed. M. Garcia-Pinto
and M. Rojas. Barcelona: Editorial
Puvill. [Translation of "On Spanish Pseudoclefts".]
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The Logic of the Progressive Aspect, with Erich Woisetschlaeger. Linguistic Inquiry 13(1): 79-89.
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Accent Systems. In The
Structure of Phonological Representations, ed. Harry
van der Hulst and Norval
Smith, pp. 47-63. Dordrecht:
Foris Press.
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La Signature COMP. Revue québécoise
de linguistique vol. 11(1)135-148.
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On Spanish Pseudoclefts. Glossa 15(1): 3-15.
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Subsegmentals in Spanish Phonology: An Autosegmental Approach.
In Linguistic Symposium on Romance
Languages:9, ed. W. Cressey and D.J. Napoli, pp. 1-16.
Washington:
Georgetown University
Press.
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On the Thematic Nature of See. Linguistic Inquiry 10(2): 347-352.
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The Aims of Autosegmental Phonology. In Current Approaches to Phonological Theory,
ed. D. Dinnsen, pp. 202-222. Bloomington:
Indiana University
Press. Also in Phonology Part II: Generative Phonology
ed. P. Riszkiewica, p. 261-285. University of Silesia Press.
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Le principe 'Pas de complémenteur'. Recherches linguistiques à Montréal 4:
15-21.
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Que, c'est quoi? Que, c'est quoi. Recherches linguistiques à Montréal 3:
1-13.
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English
as a Tone Language. Communication and Cognition. Reprinted
in Phonology in the 1980s, ed.
D. Goyvaerts [1981], Story-Scientia, pp. 287-308. The first
autosegmental analysis of English intonation, and the origin of the *-notation
of accented tones in intonation analyses.
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An Overview of Autosegmental Phonology. Linguistic Analysis 2(1): 23-68. Reprinted
in (i) Phonological Theory: The Essential Readings,
Blackwell’s, 1999; (ii) Phonology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, ed.
Charles Kreidler, 2001, Routledge, vol.
3, p.382-425.
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A propos de l'inversion du sujet clitique
en français. With Colette Dubuisson.
Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the
North East Linguistic Society,
pp. 103-112. Montreal:
Université de Montréal.
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An
Autosegmental Typology of Tone: and how Japanese fits in. Proceedings of the Fifth Meeting of the North
East Linguistics Society. Pp. 172-182. Cambridge:
Harvard University.
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French Causatives, the Constituent Constraint, the Specified Subject
Condition, and Traces. Recherches linguistiques à
Montréal 1: 27-55.
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Tone
Melodies and the Autosegment. Proceedings of the 1975 Conference on African
Linguistics, ed., R.
Herbert, pp. 135-147. Columbus:
Ohio State
University.
Review
of Programming for Linguists, by Michael Hammond. To appear in
Language.
Review of Computational Phonology,
by Steven Bird. Phonology 14: 133-141. 1997.
Review
of Phonology: a cognitive view. Journal of Linguistics 27:517-525. 1991.
Review
of Introduction to the Theory of Syntax,
by van Riemsdijk and Williams,
in Language 65:1150-159, March 1989.
Review of Semantics and Syntax,
by J. Miller. Journal of Linguistics
22: 485-489, 1986.
Review
of La finale verbale ide et l'imbrication en bantou, by Y. Bastin. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics
8:169-171, 1986.
Review
Studies in Compensatory Lengthening, ed.
Engin
Sezer and Leo
Wetzels. Language 63.2.
Review of Intonation and the
Structure of Meaning. Language June 1982.
Review
of Tone: A Linguistic Survey. In
Language 56: 413-418 June 1980.
1999:
Patent 5,905,972 Prosodic
databases holding fundamental frequency templates for use in speech synthesis
(with X.D. Huang and James Adcock)
2002:
Patent 6,405,161 Method
and apparatus for learning the morphology of a natural language.
Recent Invited Presentations
June 26: Midwest Computational
Linguistics Confence, Bloomington IN. From signatures to Finite State Automata.
April 17: 40th Regional
Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. From the algorithm to generative
grammar and back again.
January 23: University of Texas
at Dallas, Department of Computer Science: Unsupervised Learning of Natural
Language Morphology using Minimum Descrption Length analysis.
October 27: Indiana University:
2 presentations: Automatic Learning of Morphology using Minimum Description
Length; Using MDL to choose between alternative stem/affix cuts.
2002
June 6: 4ièmes Journées Internationales du GDR
1954 " Phonologies ", Université Stendhal, Grenôble : « L’apprentissage automatique de la morphologie
par ordinateur ».
June
5 : Xerox
Research Center
Europe : “Unsupervised learning of natural language
morphology”
June 3: Institute
de phonétique, Université de Paris 3 : « Une introduction aux modèles
probabiliste en linguistique ».
May 29:
Université de Paris 10 (Nanterre): “Unsupervised Learning of Natural
Language Morphology”
February
1: University of Washington
“Unsupervised Learning of Natural Language Morphology”
2001
November
9: Microsoft Research. “Unsupervised Learning of Natural Language Morphology
using MDL.”
October 30: University of California Berkeley. (i) “Automatic morphological
analysis using Minimum Description Length.” (ii) “The transition from graduate
student to assistant professor”
October 29: Stanford University. “Landing an academic job.”
October 12: University of British Columbia. “Automatic Learning of Natural Language Morphology using
Minimum Description Length”
August 21: Japanese Phonological
Society (Nihon Oninron Gakkai), Chiba, Japan. “Probabilistic Models of
Grammar: (1) Phonology as Information Minimization (2) Morphology from a Machine
Learning perspective.”
January 12. HILP Conference (Potsdam, Germany). “Why a phonologist should
be interested in machine learning.”
2000
March 20. International Biometric Society: Eastern
North America Region. “Using Minimum Description
Length to learn the morphology of a natural language.”
1999
May 6. Ecole des Hautes Etudes
en Sciences Sociales. « Un modèle de l’accentuation phonologique. »
May 5. Université de Paris VI. « L’analyse automatique de la morphologie. »
March 10. University of Pennsylvania/Institute for Research in Cognitive Science
“Unsupervised learning of Morphology.”
March 10. University of Pennsylvania/
Department of Linguistics. “A model of accentuation
that the brain might use.”
March 12. Swarthmore College.
“Learning morphology by computer.”
1998
October 21. Purdue University. “Automatic learning of morphology by computer.”
September 4. Northwestern University. “Automatic learning
of morphology by computer.”
1997
University of Washington
“Statistically-driven Unsupervised Learning of Grammar”
Chicago Humanities Institute “Using
Complexity to drive Automatic Grammar Writing.” October.
Microsoft Research, September “Statistically-driven
Unsupervised Learning of Morphology”
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
May “Theories
and Models of Accent”
University
of California, Santa
Cruz, March
1996
University of California, Davis.
April.
University of Oregon.
February.
Universidad
Arturo Prat (Iquique,
Chile) “The Marvelous
Richness of Language”
1995
Conference on Phonological Theory, Royaumont, France. Floating Tone in Mituku.
June.
Microsoft Corporation: English as a Tone Language.
October
1994
Pluralism, Realism,
and Contemporary Phonological Theory. Harvard University, October.
Phonology, Conference on Language Disorders
and Psycholinguistics, Graduate Center, City University of
New York.
April 21-24, 1994.
1992
University
of Wisconsin, Milwaukee:
Conference on the Status of Rules in Linguistics. April.
Interdisciplinary Conference on Compositionality in Cognition and
Neural Models. Paris.
June.
Chicago Linguistic
Society. April.
DIMACS Conference
on Human Language. Princeton University. March 20-22.
1991
Midwestern Conference
on Connectionism. Ohio State University, Department
of Computer Science. October.
Conference on Features and Domains:
University of Illinois,
Urbana. May.
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Compositionality in Cognition and Neural
Models. Paris.
May.
Xerox PARC. Dynamic Computational Networks. March.
Cognitive Sciences
Group, University of California, Berkeley. March.
State University of
New York,
Stonybrook. March.
Université du Québec à Montréal. February.
Université
de Montréal. February.
1990
State University of
New York
at Buffalo. January.
Centre de Recherches sur l'Epistémologie appliquée
(Paris); Université de Paris VII (Jussieu): Université de Paris VIII (St.
Denis). November.
1989
University of Rochester. November.
University of Toronto.
"Harmonic Phonology", "Autosegmental Licensing: March.
"African Language Phonology and
Phonological Theory"
Invited address, 1989 African Linguistics Conference, University
of Illinois. April.
University
of California, Berkeley:
Workshop on Phonological Theory: "Harmonic Phonology".
May.
1988
University of California, Berkeley.
"Non-Markovian Derivations in
Haya."
University of Iowa. "Non-Markovian Derivations in Haya."
1987
Invited speaker,
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society (University of California at
Berkeley).
Invited speaker,
Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (Rutgers University).
Invited speaker,
Chicago Linguistics Society annual meeting, parasession on autosegmental and metrical phonology.
1986
"Towards a Theory of Vowels Systems:
an Autosegmental Perspective": University
of Wisconsin at Madison
(October).
University of Illinois at Urbana (October).
Invited commentator, Conference on
Theoretical Issues in Sign Language, NTID and University
of Rochester (June).
"Autonomous and
Simultaneous Structures in Grammar". Yale University (April);
University of Rochester (March).
"Tone and Accent
in Bantu"; "Vowel Harmony". Stanford University (January).
1985
Co-organizer (with G.
Puech, Université de Lyons II)
of Conference on Multilinear Phonology, Université
de Lyons II:
"La propagation des traits et l'accent". (June)
Keynote Speaker, African Linguistics
Conference, Yale University:
"Trends in the Evolution of Bantu tone systems" (March).
Invited Speaker,
Linguistics Society of Great Britain (University of Salford): "Tone and Vowel Harmony in Autosegmental Phonology" (March).
Languages:
Near native ability in French.
Conversational abilities in Spanish, American Sign Language.
Reading
and more restricted conversational abilities in German, Norwegian, Haitian
Creole
Primary
research on Igbo, Swahili, Tonga,
CiRuri, KiHunde, KiRundi, Ndebele, CiCewa, KiLangi, Langue des signes québécoise