Category Archives: prosodylab

paper online

By chael | Published: January 26, 2010
A couple of weeks ago my article “Prosody and Recursion in Coordinate Structures and Beyond” was posted online by Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Here’s the abstract: Generalizations about relative prosodic boundary strength are recursive. Initial evidence comes from the fragment of English consisting only of proper names and and and or. A systematic relation [...]
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rhyme is in the air

By chael | Published: December 11, 2009
[see also a more recent post here. mw, august 8 2010] Kate McCurdy and I are currently working on cross-linguistic differences in constraints on rhyme. Here’s a draft of a recent paper that proposes an explanation for why ‘identity’ rhyme is considered a satisfactory rhyme in French but not in English. We relate this difference [...]
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Alternatives to Cartography

By chael | Published: December 10, 2009
The book with papers from the 2007 conference on alternatives to cartography in Brussels (edited by Jeroen van Cranenbroeck) was just published. A pre-print of my article Focus, Topic, Word Order: A Compositional Approach is posted on the semantics archive.
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Digging into Data

By admin | Published: December 7, 2009
Last week Mats Rooth and I were awarded a Digging into Data grant by the NSF and SSHRC for the project ”Harvesting Speech Datasets for Linguistic Research on the Web ”, which was one out of 8 projects that were funded. We are working on this project together with a Cornell graduate student, Jonathan Howell. [...]
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