Research & Publications
Working something out with Noam Faust, Paris (2016)
Research Grants and Funding
2015-2017
Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. University of Lyon.
2007
Post-graduate research fellowship (masters), AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom).
Associated with the MPhil in Linguistics, University of Cambridge.
Guest-Editor
In preparation. Minority Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory. Isogloss. (with Michela Russo)
2021. Phonological Solutions to Morphological Problems. The Linguistic Review, 38(3). (with Heather Newell).
Editorial: Phonological solutions to morphological problems. The Linguistic Review, 38(3):321-326. (with Heather Newell).
2020. Current Issues in Representational Phonology. Acta Linguistica Academica, 67(1). (with Katalin Balogné Bérces).
Editorial: Guest Editor's Note. Acta Linguistica Academica, 67(1):1-2. (with Katalin Balogné Bérces).
2017. Headedness in Phonology. Glossa: a journal of theoretical linguistics. Ubiquity Press.
Writing
Peer-Reviewed articles
2024. Nasal Assimilation Counterfeeding and Allomorphy in Haitian: Nothing is still something. Linguistic Inquiry, 55 (2): 255–286. (with Mohamed Lahrouchi).
2024. Positional Debuccalisation of /s/ in Spanish Dialects: the variable cyclicity of prefixes. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 9(1).
2023. A Classless Analysis of Italian Nouns and their Theme-Vowel Alternations. Isogloss, 9(1)/2, 1-36. (with Nicola Lampitelli).
2022. Pseudo-Allomorphy of Articles and Articulated Prepositions in Llanito (Gibraltar). Linx (en ligne), 84.
2022. Cross-Morphemic Palatalisation in Getxo Basque Empty positions, bipositionality and place licensing. The Linguistic Review, 39(4):587-613. (with Katalin Balogné Bérces).
2022. Metrical Exceptionality and Stress Shift in Romanian Nouns and Adjectives. Isogloss, 8(1)/4:1-29. (with Sofia Alexei).
2022. An Argument for Phonological Stress French: the syntagm over contrast. Journal of French Language Studies, 1-17. (Discussion section).
2021. Olts, oltódj, oltass, oltakozz: A felszólító módú alakok palatalizációjának templatikus elemzése autoszegmentális elem és elrendezés típusú modellben. Nyelvtudományi Közlemények, 117:351-378. (with Katalin Balogné Bérces).
2021. Labiovelars and the labial-velar hypothesis: Phonological Headedness in Bare Element Geometry. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 6(1).
2021. A Phonological Reanalysis of Morphological Segment Deletion and De-affrication in Ik. The Linguistic Review, 38(3):483-516.
2021. Lenition and Metathesis in Hawu: a quantity-sensitive language. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, 20:1–25. (non-anonymous peer review).
2020. Segment–zero alternations in Galician definite article allomorphy floating consonants at the left-edge of morphemes. Acta Linguistica Academica, 67(1):1–16.
2020. Initial lenition and strength alternations (v/b) in Neapolitan: A laryngeal Branchingness condition. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 5(1), 11. (with Michela Russo).
2018. Arabic stress without moras, extrametricality or syllables. The Linguistic Review, 35(4):561-600. (with Noam Faust).
2018. Articles of Italian Unite: Italian definite articles without allomorphy. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 63(3):359-385. (with Noam Faust & Nicola Lampitelli).
2017. Breaking the Symmetry of Geminates in Diachrony and Synchrony. Papers in Historical Phonology, 2:164-202. (with Michela Russo).
2016. The Typology of the distribution of |ʔ|: the propensity for bipositionality. Papers in Historical Phonology, 1(1):109-129. (with Mohamed Lahrouchi).
2010. C-Command, Projections and Melody: Microparameters of the Han-Template. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 57(4):398-410.
2009. The Internal Structure of Compounds: A phase account of aphasia. Iberia, 1(1):143-168.
2008. The Formal Dynamism of Categories: Fricatives vs. stops, simplicity vs. primitivity. Poznan Contemporary Studies in Linguistics, 44(1):121-146.
Book Chapters
In Press. Reconciling the debate about final obstruent voicing: the phonology of Lakota obstruent lenition. In: Kuznetsova, N., Anderson, C. & S. Easterday (eds.), Rarities in phonetics and phonology. Language Sciences Press. (with Geoff Schwartz)
2023. Prevocalic Tenseness in English, Binarity and the Typology of Long Vowel Distributions. Elements, Government & Licensing. pp. 77-88. UCL Press. (with Katalin Balogné Bérces)
2021. Accounting for the definite articles in Medieval Italian and Modern Dialects: No allomorphy, a common UR. In: Russo, M. (ed.), The Emergence of Grammars: A Closer Look at Dialects between phonology and morphosyntax. NY, USA: Nova Science Publishers. Ch. 4. (with Michela Russo)
2017. Formalising the markedness of syllable structure. In: Samuels, B. Beyond Markedness in Formal Phonology. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 153-190. https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003347
2017. Bogus clusters in Tuscan Italian and the Theory of Sonority. In: Lindsey, G. & A. Nevins. Sonic Signatures. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 277-298. http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/00326
Book Reviews/Discussions
2022. Discussion in: Becker, Michael (auth.) “Cairene Arabic stress is local”. Radical: A Journal of Phonology, 4, 239-247.
2018. Book review of: Morphological Length and Prosodically Defective Morphemes by Eva Zimmermann. In: Phonology, 35(1):157-167
Book (in preparation)
Allomorphy of the Article in Romance: A modular, item-and- arrangement, decompositional account.
Thesis
A Field Theory of Stress. Ph.D. SOAS - University of London
Editing
Co-Editor - 2018-2023
Radical – A Journal of Phonology
Editorial Board
Member - 2023-present
Cited Manuscripts
2017. Afar nominal morphology without noun class features. (ms.)
2007. Floating Consonants in French: the need for skeleton at input. (ms.). SOAS, London. ROA/891-0107
