Publications & Manuscripts
Siah, J. L., Zukoff, S. & Hsieh, F. F. (submitted). Resolving Reduplicative Opacity in Malay Nasal Spreading: Argument for Base-Reduplicant Correspondence Theory. [manuscript]
Siah, J. L. (accepted). Prosodic end-weight effects in Malay echo reduplication: the role of phonetic naturalness and lexical frequency. Phonology. [manuscript]
Siah, J. L., Zukoff, S. & Hsieh, F. F. (2025). Reduplicative opacity in Malay revisited: Preliminary phonetic evidence for variable "recopying" and BRCT. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting on Phonology 1(1). [link] [pdf]
Jun, S. A., Siah, J. L., Cabrera, M. & Johnson, H. (2023). Realizations of the tritonal pitch accent in Paraguayan Guarani. In: R. Skarnitzl & J. Volín (Eds.) Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. 1265-1269. International Phonetic Association. [link] [pdf]
Conference Presentations
* indicates the presenting author(s)
*Siah, J. L., Zukoff, S. & Hsieh, F. F. (2026). Generative phonetic modeling of Malay nasal harmony. Talk to be presented at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 8-11.
*Siah, J. L. & *Đinh, K. (2026). Syllabification of vocoids in Malay: Evidence from musical text-setting. Poster to be presented at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 8-11.
*Eischens, B. & *Siah, J. L. (2025). Non-generalization of a phonetically natural pattern in Mixtec tone sandhi. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP), Berkeley, CA, September 25-27. [slides]
*Eischens, B. & Siah, J. L. (2025). A wug test of tone spreading in San Martín Peras Mixtec. Talk presented at the Formal Linguistics Meeting in Mexico (ELF), Mexico City, Mexico, September 17-19. [slides]
Siah, J. L. (2025). Generative phonetic modeling of Malay nasal harmony. Talk presented at the International Thematic Conference on Phonetic Research and Application, Hong Kong, September 17-19. [slides]
Siah, J. L. (2025). Abstract and item-specific knowledge in Malay echo reduplication. Poster presented at the Workshop on Abstract and Item-Specific Knowledge Across Domains and Frameworks (ABSPECK), Eugene, OR, July 26-27. [LSA Summer Institute Best Poster Presentation] [poster]
*Minkova, D. & *Siah, J. L. (2025). Tracing the origin and spread of NG-coalescence in English. Poster presented at the Manchester Phonology Meeting (mfm), Manchester, England, May 29-31. [poster]
Boulom, A., *Cram, C., *Guymon, N., McGahay, J., Metzler, Z., Montilla, E., Shetty, V., Siah, J. L. & Cychosz, M. (2025). A systematic review and meta-analysis of the development of coarticulation in child speech. Poster presented at the 188th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), New Orleans, LA, May 18-23. [poster]
Siah, J. L. (2025). Morpheme-specific phonology in Bilin accusative case marking. Talk presented at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, January 9-12. [slides]
*Siah, J. L., *Zukoff, S. & Hsieh, F. F. (2024). Reduplicative opacity in Malay revisited: Preliminary phonetic evidence for variable "recopying" and BRCT. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP), New Brunswick, NJ, November 1-3. [slides]
Siah, J. L. (2024). Bracketing paradox in Malay causative construction. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA), Amherst, MA, June 12-14. [slides]
*Jun, S. A., *Siah, J. L., Cabrera, M. & Johnson, H. (2023). Realizations of the tritonal pitch accent in Paraguayan Guarani. Poster presented at the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Prague, Czech Republic, August 7-11. [poster]
Siah, J. L. (2023). Learnability of prosodic end-weight effect in Malay echo reduplication: A substantive bias account. Talk presented at Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE), Nijmegen, the Netherlands, June 2-4. [LabPhon award for Best Oral Presentation] [slides]
Siah, J. L. (2023). Learnability of prosodic end-weight effect in Malay echo reduplication. Poster presented at the 30th Manchester Phonology Meeting (mfm), Manchester, England, May 25-27. [poster]
Siah, J. L. (2023). Prosodic end-weight effect in Malay echo reduplication: A learnability study. Talk presented virtually at the International Symposium on Malay and Indonesian Linguistics (ISMIL), Hawaii, HI, May 18-19. [virtual talk]
Siah, J. L. (2023). Learnability of prosodic end-weight effect in Malay echo reduplication: The interaction between lexical attestedness and phonetic naturalness. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS), Chiang Mai, Thailand, May 16-18. [slides]