Linda Lombardi
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I can be reached at:
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I've resigned my position at the University of Maryland and am pursuing other career options, so the list below is my Complete Works in linguistics.
Publications
Segmental Phonology in Optimality Theory: Constraints and
Representations. Editor. 2001, Cambridge University Press. Click here for table of contents.
"Markedness
and the typology of epenthetic vowels" to appear in
Proceedings of Linguistics and Phonetics 2002.
"Complex constraints and linguistic typology in Optimality
Theory" with Haruka Fukazawa. The Linguistic Review. 2003,
20: 195–215
"Second
language data and constraints on Manner." Second
Language Research 2003
"Coronal
epenthesis and markedness", Phonology 2002, 19:
219-251.
"Why Place and Voice are different: constraint-specific
alternations and Optimality Theory." Lombardi, ed.2001
"Consonant transparency and vowel echo." With
Adamantios Gafos. Proceedings of NELS 29, volume 2.
"Evidence
for MaxFeature constraints from Japanese," University of
Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics volume 7, 1998
"Positional faithfulness and voicing assimilation in
Optimality Theory,"Natural Language and Linguistic
Theory 17, 1999.
"Syntactic priming in immediate recall of sentences,"
with Mary
C. Potter, Journal of Memory and Language 38. 1998.
"Coronal epenthesis and markedness," Proceedings of
the Hopkins Optimality Workshop/Maryland Mayfest 1997, Maryland
Working Papers in Linguistics.
"Restrictions
on direction of voicing assimilation," Maryland
Working Papers in Linguistics 4, 1996, 89-155.
"Postlexical rules and the status of privative features,"
Phonology 13, 1996, 1-38.
"Dahl's Law and privative [voice]," Linguistic
Inquiry 26, 1995, 365-72.
"Laryngeal neutralization, Alignment, and Markedness," University
of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics volume 18:
"Papers in Optimality Theory," 1995, 225-248.
"Affricates, level-ordering and the feature [strident],"
Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics 3, 1995, 89-115.
"Laryngeal neutralization and syllable wellformedness,"
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 13, 1995, 39-74.
"Laryngeal features and privativity," The
Linguistic Review 12, 1995, 35-59.
Laryngeal features and laryngeal neutralization, Garland
Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series, 1994.
"The regeneration of syntax in short-term memory," with
Mary C. Potter, Journal of Memory and Language 31, 1992,
713-733.
"The prosodic morphology of Choctaw," with John J. McCarthy,
Phonology 8, 1991, 37-72.
"The nonlinear organization of the affricate." Natural
Language and Linguistic Theory 8, 1990, 375-425.
"Regeneration in the short-term recall of sentences,"
with Mary C. Potter, Journal of Memory and Language, 29,
1990, 633-654.
Background
Brandeis University BA 1984
University of Massachusetts at Amherst 1991 PhD in Linguistics
Dissertation: Laryngeal features and laryngeal neutralization,
Supervised by John
J. McCarthy
1992-present: Assistant Professor, Linguistics, University of
Maryland at College Park.
1991-1992: Assistant Professor, Linguistics, University of
Toronto.
Advising
Dissertation chair:
Haruka Fukazawa. Theoretical implications of OCP effects on
features in Optimality Theory. 1999.
Patricia Hironymus, Selection of the optimal syllable in an
alignment-based theory of sonority. 1999.
Viola Miglio, Interactions between markedness and faithfulness in
vowel systems. 1999.
Frida Morelli, The phonotactics and phonology of obstruent
clusters in Optimality Theory. 1999.
Bruce Moren, Distinctiveness, coercion, and sonority: a unified
theory of weight. 1999.
Rachel Crain, Temporal ordering and the organization of the sign in ASL
Member, Dissertation committee:
Adamantios Gafos, Johns Hopkins Department of Cognitive Science;
May 1996.
Caro Struijke, 2000
