Nancy Hall Contact California State University, Long Beach 1250 Bellflower Boulevard Department of Linguistics PSY 114 Long Beach, California 90840 office phone: (562)985-2656 nhall2#csulb.edu (# = @)

Downloadable papers

r-dissimilation in American English [This is a draft that I am currently revising; comments appreciated]. I expand the description of long-distance r-dissimilation, and argue that it occurs due to perceptual errors.

Acoustics of unstressable vowels in Lebanese Arabic (with Maria Gouskova). [To appear in Phonological Argumentation: Essays on Evidence and Motivation, ed. Steve Parker. London: Equinox]. We show that for some speakers of Lebanese, epenthetic vowels are shorter and more back than lexical vowels. Working in Optimality Theory with Candidate Chains (OT-CC), we propose that phonetic implementation can optionally draw on intermediate members of the chain. Write to me if you would like a pre-print version.

Cross-linguistic patterns of vowel intrusion. [The link is to a non-final version; please cite the published version from Phonology 23:3. pp 387--429.]

Lexical selection for left-edge stress in children. Based on a study of long (4+ syllable) words in the Compton and Street corpus, I argue that these English speaking children produce a disproportionate number of words with initial main stress.

Gestures and segments: vowel intrusion as overlap [doctoral dissertation]

MAX-Position motivates iterative footing. MAX-Position is a constraint that favors as much phonological material as possible appearing in prominent positions. Such a constraint can explain why languages may prefer to have multiple stressed syllables (iterative footing), and can also account for some allomorphy patterns that result in words having an even number of syllables.