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 with Scott Nelson (UIUC) recasts representational solutions as computational ones (Nelson & Baković 2024a, 2024b) and derives a typology of feature spreading and blocking with the same computational tools (Nelson & Baković 2025). Two other recent collaborations include one with Adam McCollum (Rutgers), Anna Mai (MPI), and Eric Meinhardt (Imandra), questioning 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), and another with Lev Blumenfeld (Carleton), defining 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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Nelson, Scott, and Eric Baković. 2025. “Feature spreading, redundancy, and blocking behavior.” [lingbuzz/009295] [alternative copy]
Khaloo, Noah, and Eric Baković. 2025. “Harmony and disharmony in Jewish Urmi.” Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP) 2025, UC Berkeley. [abstract] [poster] [supplemental handout]
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]
… see a complete list of my works here.