I’m most interested in phonological theory, which aims to formally characterize the set of possible patterns of sounds/signs in human language — and, in principle, only that set. My current collaboration recasts representational solutions as computational ones (Nelson & Baković 2024a, 2024b). Some of my other recent collaborations question claims about the outer limit of the set of possible phonological patterns (McCollum et al., 2020; Meinhardt et al, 2024; McCollum et al., to appear), investigate the typological predictions made by specific constraint-based optimization systems (Mai & Baković, 2020, Baković & Mai 2021, Baković & Bennett, 2023), and define a formal typology of process interactions and their relations to one another (Baković & Blumenfeld, 2019; Baković & Blumenfeld, 2024; Baković & Blumenfeld, to appear).
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Baković, Eric. 2025. “When harmony fails, markedness prevails.” Contributed to DougSchrift: A Collection of Squibs and Puzzles presented to Doug Pulleyblank. [collection] [paper] [alternative copy]
McCollum, Adam G., Eric Baković, and Anna Mai. “On the inevitability of non-myopic harmony.” To appear in Michela Russo and Rachel Walker (eds.), “Metaphony and Umlaut: Theoretical Issues” (Special thematic issue of Phonology) [preprint] [lingbuzz/008846]
Baković, Eric. 2024. ”Conflict and cooperation, or: how I learned to stop arguing and love interaction.” Plenary talk, Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP) 2024, Rutgers University. [slides]
Nelson, Scott, and Eric Baković. 2024b. “Computation clarifies mixed specification behavior of coronals in English.” Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP) 2024, Rutgers University. [abstract] [poster]
Baković, Eric, and Lev Blumenfeld. “Process interactions.” To appear in Adam Jardine and Paul de Lacy (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press. [revised manuscript]
Nelson, Scott, and Eric Baković. 2024a. “Underspecification without underspecified representations.” Society for Computation in Linguistics 7(1), 352-356. doi:10.7275/scil.2227 [extended abstract] [alternative copy]
Baković, Eric, and Lev Blumenfeld. 2024. “A formal typology of process interactions.” Phonological Data and Analysis 6.3, pp. 1-43. doi:10.3765/pda.v6art3.83 [OA article] [lingbuzz/006861] [alternative copy]
Meinhardt, Eric, Anna Mai, Eric Baković, and Adam G. McCollum. 2024. “Weak determinism and the computational consequences of interaction.” Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. doi:10.1007/s11049-023-09578-1 [OA article] [enhanced pdf] [lingbuzz/006712] [alternative copy]
Baković, Eric, and Wm. G. Bennett. 2023. “Faithfulness and underspecification.” Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2022). doi:10.3765/amp.v10i0.5456 [OA article] [lingbuzz/007074] [postprint]
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