1. Books, edited collections, special issues

2017       Encyclopaedia of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. Beijing: Peking University Press. Pp. 1568. With Mei Deming (editor-in-chief), Liu Jinfeng, Qi Xiaowen, Li Jian’er, Li Jingna, Li Rui, Wu Liying, Tong Helong, Chen Jie, Jiang Zhanhao and Gao Wencheng.

2016       Proceedings of the second workshop “Chinese Accents and Accented Chinese” (CAAC 2) 2016, at the Nordic Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, 26-27 October 2015. Online at Chinese Accents and Accented Chinese. With Marjoleine Sloos.

2015       Proceedings of the first workshop “Chinese Accents and Accented Chinese” (CAAC 1) 2015, at the Nordic Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, 9-10 October 2014. Online at Chinese Accents and Accented Chinese. With Marjoleine Sloos.

2013       Issues in Japanese Phonology: Segmental Variation in Japanese. Tokyo: Kaitakusha. With Tetsuo Nishihara.

2012      Grammar as Selection: Combining Optimality Theory and Exemplar Theory. Nagoya: Kougaku Shuppan.

                  Accent on Tone. The Linguistic Review 29, 1-147. (Special issue)

2010      Morphological Variation in Japanese. Lingua 120, 2319-2423. With Tetsuo Nishihara. (Special Issue)

2007      Voicing in Dutch: (De)voicing - Phonology, Phonetics, and Psycholinguistics (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 286). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. With Erik Jan van der Torre.

2006      Linguistics in the Netherlands 2006. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. With Bettelou Los.

2005      Voicing in Japanese (Studies in Generative Grammar 84). Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin. With Kensuke Nanjo and Tetsuo Nishihara.

                  Linguistics in the Netherlands 2005. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. With Jenny Doetjes.

                  Developmental Paths in Phonological Acquisition. Special issue of Leiden Papers in Linguistics. With Marina Tzakosta and Claartje Levelt

                  The Internal Organization of Phonological Segments (Studies in Generative Grammar 77). Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. With Marc van Oostendorp.

2004       Proceedings of the Government Phonology Workshop (Leiden, 3 December 2004). Special issue of Leiden Papers in Linguistics. With Nancy C. Kula.

2003      Usage-Based Approaches to Dutch - Lexicon, Grammar, Discourse (LOT Occasional Publications 1). Utrecht: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT). With Arie Verhagen.

                  The Phonological Spectrum. Volume I: Segmental Structure (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 233). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. With Vincent J. van Heuven and Harry van der Hulst.

                  The Phonological Spectrum. Volume II: Suprasegmental Structure (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 234). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. With Vincent J. van Heuven and Harry van der Hulst.

2001       Surface Syllable Structure and Segment Sequencing (HIL Occasional Papers 4). Leiden: Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics. With Elizabeth Hume and Norval Smith. 

                    Issues in Japanese Phonology and Morphology (Studies in Generative Grammar 51). Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. With Tetsuo Nishihara.

2000       Optimality Theory: Phonology, Syntax and Acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. With Joost Dekkers and Frank van der Leeuw. 

1998       Small Words in the Big Picture – Squibs for Hans Bennis (HIL Occasional Papers 2). Leiden: Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics. With Sjef Barbiers and Johan Rooryck. 

1997       Phonology in Progress – Progress in Phonology (HIL Phonology Papers III). The Hague: Holland Academic Graphics. With Geert Booij.

1996       Segmental Structure and Complex Segments. Tübingen: Niemeyer.

1995      Leiden In Last (HIL Phonology Papers I). The Hague: Holland Academic Graphics. With Harry van der Hulst.

1994       Segmental Structure and Complex Segments. PhD dissertation, Leiden University.

2. Reviewed articles

2023        An Exemplar approach to vowel harmony (accepted). In Nancy A. Ritter and Harry van der Hulst (eds.), The Oxford handbook of vowel harmony. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

                   A prosodic comparison of two types of response tokens in Mandarin Chinese and English. Lingua 238, 103466. With Gao Hua and Lin Yuhan.

                    Frequent violation of the sonority sequencing principle in hundreds of languages: How often and by which sequences? (online) Linguistic Typology. With Yin Ruihua and Erich R. Round.

                   The serial verb construction in Tujia. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 46.1, 72-94.  With Lu Man and Ma Yu.

                    Comparative marking in Tujia (accepted). Language and Linguistics. With Lu Man, Ma Yu and Yi Zhen. 

2022     The role of L1-L2 dissimilarity in L2 segment learning – Implications from the acquisition of English post-alveolar fricatives by Mandarin and Mandarin/Wu speakers. Frontiers in Psychology 13,  1017724. With Chen Wenjun. 

                 Illustrations of the IPA: Saraiki. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 52.3, 541-561 (published online 2020). With Firdos Atta and Zhu Lei.

                  Written corrective feedback: A case study of one teacher's feedback on ESL students' initial and final drafts. Chinese Journal of Second Language Writing 5, 34-55. With Cao Peihong.

                 Adaptation of Melodic Intonation Therapy to a tone language: A pilot study of tone-rhythmic therapy in Chinese. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica (online). With Chen Wenjun, Qian Qian, Zhu Shuangshuang and Wang Manna.

                Tone and vowel disruptions in Mandarin aphasia and apraxia of speech. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics (online). With Chen Wenjun, Zhu Shuangshuang, Qian Qian & Wang Manna.

                 The development of the English -en suffix. Acta Linguistica Academica 69.3, 365-380. With Gao Hua.

                  The role of word frequency in the L2 acquisition of variable patterns: A case study of the pronunciation of English words with -man by Chinese learners. In Jorrig Vogels and Sterre Leufkens (eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 2022 (Publications of the AVT 39), 284-299. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. With Marjoleine Sloos and Wei Weiyun.

2021      Illustrations of the IPA: Huangyan Taizhou. Journal of the International Phonetic Association (online). With Marjoleine Sloos and Ran Yunyun.

                 An HPSG approach to Chinese syllable structure and tone sandhi. Lingua 258, 103048. With Yang Chunlei.

                On deverbal adjectives in -ish in English. Lingua 257, 103074.

2020         A unified analysis of two reduplication processes in Saraiki. Acta Linguistica Academica 67.3, 370-382. With Firdos Atta.

                     Words are constructions, too: A construction-based approach to ablaut reduplication in English. Linguistics 58.6, 1701-1735. With Wei Weiyun, Wang Yumeng, Ren Guangyuan and Ran Yunyun.

                     Gender identification in Chinese names. Lingua 234, 102759. With Ren Guangyuan, Joost van de Weijer, Wei Weiyun and Wang Yumeng.

                      Post-head negation in Tujia. Lingua 235, 102780. With Lu Man and Liu Zhengguang.

                       Intonation in Hong Kong English and Guangzhou Cantonese-accented English: A phonetic comparison. Journal of Language Teaching and Research 11.5, 724-38. With Ran Yunyun and Marjoleine Sloos.

                       A perception-based OT approach to opacity in Mandarin Chinese nasal rhymes. In Chen Dongyan and Daniel Bell (eds.), Explorations of Chinese theoretical and applied linguistics, 8-43. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars. With Luo Mingqiong and Marjoleine Sloos.

2019        Data on the use of optional ergative case marking in Tujia, an endangered language of southwest China. Data in Brief 26, 104019. With Lu Man, Yu Ma and Liu Zhengguang.

                    Optional ergative marking in Tujia. Lingua 223, 46-66. With Lu Man, Chris Sinha and Liu Zhengguang.

                    Vowel reduction in English -man compounds. The Linguistic Review 36.4, 675-687. With Marjoleine Sloos and Wei Weiyun.

                     Where now with Optimality Theory? Acta Linguistica Academica 66.1, 115-135.

                    Nominalization and relativization in Tujia: A cross-linguistic perspective. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 42.1, 82-109. With Lu Man and Liu Zhengguang.

                    Két reduplikációs folyamat a szaraiki nyelvben [Two reduplication processes in the Saraiki language]. Általános Nyelvészeti Tanulmányok [Studies in General Linguistics] 31, 11-27. With Firdos Atta.

2018       Consonant-vowel interaction in Sichuan Chinese: An element-based analysis. Lingua 212, 1-9. With Chen Shunting.

                   Calculating a pattern's competitive strength: Competition between /æ/ and /ʌ/ in irregular simple pasts and past participles in English. The Mental Lexicon 13.1, 144-158. With Eric Hoekstra, Anne Merkuur and Marjoleine Sloos. 

                   Dependency Phonology. In S. J. Hannahs and Anna R. K. Bosch (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory, 325-359. London: Routledge. With Harry van der Hulst.

                   Degrees of complexity in phonological segments. In Roger Böhm and Harry van der Hulst (eds.), Substance-Based Grammar: The (Ongoing) Work of John Anderson (Studies in Language Companion Series 204), 385-429. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. With Harry van der Hulst. 

2017        The status of *Complex in Greek. In Thanasis Georgakopoulos et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL 12), vol. 2, 1259-1274. Berlin: Edition Romiosini and Center for Modern Greece. With Marina Tzakosta.

                    Emergent phonological constraints: The acquisition of *Complex in English. Acta Linguistica Academica 64.1, 153-165.

2016       On L2 English Intonation Patterns by Mandarin and Shanghainese Speakers: A Pilot Study. In Marjoleine Sloos and Jeroen van de Weijer (eds.), Proceedings of the second workshop “Chinese Accents and Accented Chinese” (2nd CAAC) 2016, at the Nordic Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, 26-27 October 2015, 1-10. With Ran Yunyun.

2015       But a Short Word on 'Maar'. Part of a review article of Robert S. Kirsner (2014): Qualitative-Quantitative Analyses of Dutch and Afrikaans Grammar and Lexicon. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Nederlandse Taalkunde / Dutch Linguistics 20 (2), 245-249.

                   What Can Adult Speech Tell us about Child Language Acquisition? Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 60 (1), 75-83. With Marjoleine Sloos.

                   The Role of Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition. In Marjoleine Sloos and Jeroen van de Weijer (eds.), Proceedings of the first workshop “Chinese Accents and Accented Chinese” (1st CAAC) 2015, at the Nordic Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, 9-10 October 2014, 3-15.

                    On the Development of Final [r] in British English. KLS 35: Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting of The Kansai Linguistic Society, 193-204. Osaka: Kansai Linguistic Society. With Tetsuo Nishihara.

2014     The Four Tones of Mandarin Chinese: Representation and Acquisition. In Anita Auer and Björn Köhnlein (eds.) Linguistics in the Netherlands 2014, 180-191. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. With Marjoleine Sloos.

                 The Origin of OT Constraints. In Frans Hinskens, Ben Hermans and Marc van Oostendorp (eds.) Special issue of Lingua: Usage-Based and Rule-Based Approaches to Phonological Variation. Lingua 142, 66-75.

2013     An OT Analysis of Nasal-Obstruent Clusters in English. Journal of Foreign Languages 36 (6), 2-17. With Zheng Jizheng.

                 Learning Markedness Constraints: The Case of French. In Suzanne Aalberse and Anita Auer (eds.) Linguistics in the Netherlands 2013, 188-200. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. With Marjoleine Sloos.

                 Family Matters: Lexical Aspects of Japanese Rendaku. In Jeroen van de Weijer and Tetsuo Nishihara (eds.) Issues in Japanese Phonology: Segmental Variation in Japanese, 129-148. Tokyo: Kaitakusha. With Clemens Poppe and Marjoleine Sloos

2012      Using Local Conjunction to Discover Constraints: The Case of Mandarin Chinese. In Bert Botma and Roland Noske (eds.) Phonological Explorations: Empirical, Theoretical and Diachronic Issues, 255-264. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

                   Proper-Name Identification. In Ma Qiuwu, Ding Hongwei and Daniel Hirst (eds.) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2012, Volume II, 729-732. Shanghai: Tongji University Press. With Joost van de Weijer and Yan Beili.

                    On the Role of Adjacency in Morphological Stress Shift. Journal of the English Linguistic Society of Japan 29, 293-296. With Tetsuo Nishihara.

                    An OT-CC Analysis of Phonological Opacity in Shaoxing Trisyllabic Tone Sandhi. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 40(1), 139-154. With Zhang Jisheng.

2011       Secondary and Double Articulation. In Marc van Oostendorp, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth Hume and Keren Rice (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 694-710. London: Wiley-Blackwell.

2010       Morphological Variation in Japanese. Lingua 120(10), 2319-2322.

2009       Optimality Theory and Exemplar Theory. Phonological Studies 12, 117-124.

2008        An X-Bar Approach to the Syllable Structure of Mandarin. Lingua 118(9), 1416-1428. With Zhang Jisheng.

                    A Constraint-Based Account of Tone Sandhi in Shaoxing Chinese. In Redouane Djamouri and Rint Sybesma (eds.) Chinese Linguistics in Budapest, 67-80. Collection des Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale. Paris: Centre de Reserches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale. With Zhang Jisheng.

2006       On the Role of Phonological, Morphological and Semantic Headedness in Acquisition. In Piotr Banski, Beata Lukaszewicz and Monika Opalinska (eds.) Studies in Constraint-Based Phonology, 223-244. Warsaw: Warsaw University Press. With Marina Tzakosta,

2005         Phonological Alphabets and the Structure of the Segment. In Marc van Oostendorp and Jeroen van de Weijer (eds.) The Internal Organization of Phonological Segments, 1-23. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. With Marc van Oostendorp.

2004         On Segmental Complexity: Affricates and Patterns of Segmental Modification in Consonant Inventories. In Leonie Cornips and Jenny Doetjes (eds.) Linguistics in the Netherlands 2004, 217-228. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. With Frans Hinskens.

2003         Patterns of Segmental Modification in Consonant Inventories: A Cross-Linguistic Study. Linguistics 41(6), 1041-1084. With Frans Hinskens.

                     Patterns of Segmental Modification in Consonant Inventories. Contrast vs. Redundancy and Phonology vs. Phonetics. In Paula Fikkert and Leonie Cornips (eds.) Linguistics in the Netherlands 2003, 71-81. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. With Frans Hinskens.

                      Epenthesis of [I] in Native and Loanword Korean Phonology. Proceedings of the 2nd Korean International Conference on Phonology: Optimality Theory in Retrospect and in Prospect, 67-79. Seoul: The Phonology-Morphology Circle of Korea. With Sang-Jik Rhee.

                       On the Formal Representation of Metathesis in Phonological Theory: v-Metathesis in Modern Georgian. Lingua 113(8), 765-778. Prefinal draft on ROA. With Marika Butskhrikidze. 

2002           An Optimality Theoretical Analysis of the Dutch Diminutive. In Hans Broekhuis and Paula Fikkert (eds.) Linguistics in the Netherlands 2002, 199-209. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2001           On De-Affrication in Modern Georgian. In Ton van der Wouden and Hans Broekhuis (eds.) Linguistics in the Netherlands 2001, 41-51. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. With Marika Butskhrikidze. 

1999           Analogical Change in Optimality Theory. In Nihon On'inron Gakkai [The Phonological Society of Japan] (ed.) On'in Kenkyu [Phonological Studies] 2, 145-152. Tokyo: Kaitakusha.

                       A Survey of Word-Prosodic Systems of European Languages. In H.G. van der Hulst (ed.) Word-Prosodic Systems of the Languages of Europe, 425-475. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. With Harry van der Hulst and Bernadette Hendriks.

1998           Complexe Morfeemstructuur: Het Possessiefmorfeem in het Quiotepec Chinantec. In Eric Hoekstra and Caroline Smits (eds.) Morfologiedagen 1996, 73-83. Cahiers van het Meertens Instituut 10. Amsterdam: Meertens Institute. With Frank van der Leeuw.

1997            Prosody of the Possessive Morpheme in Quiotepec Chinantec. In Tina Cambier-Langeveld, João Costa, Rob Goedemans and Ruben van de Vijver (eds.) ConSole V – Proceedings, 199-212. Leiden: Leiden University Press. With Frank van der Leeuw.

                       Complex Morpheme Structure in Quiotepec Chinantec. In Geert E. Booij and Jeroen van de Weijer (eds.) Phonology in Progress – Progress in Phonology, 151-166 (HIL Phonology Papers III). The Hague: Holland Academic Graphics. With Frank van der Leeuw.

1995          Continuancy in Liquids and in Obstruents. Lingua 96(1), 45-61.

                      Vowel Harmony. In John A. Goldsmith (ed.) The Handbook of Phonological Theory, 495-534. Oxford: Blackwell. With Harry van der Hulst.

1994          Stem Consonant Cooccurrence Restrictions in Ngbaka. In Reineke Bok-Bennema and Crit Cremers (eds.) Linguistics in the Netherlands 1994, 259-266. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

                      Prosodic Constraints in the Lexi­con of Polish: The Case of Derived Imperfectives. The Linguistic Review 11(1), 49-76. With Grażyna Rowicka.

1993          The Manner-Place Dependency in Complex Segments. Linguistics 31(1), 87-110.

1992          The Manner Node. In Reineke Bok-Bennema and Roeland van Hout (eds.) Linguistics in the Netherlands 1992, 261-272. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

                       Basque Affricates and the Manner-Place Dependency. Lingua 88(2), 129-147.

                       On the Formal Description of Palatalisation. In Reineke Bok-Bennema and Roeland van Hout (eds.) Linguistics in the Netherlands 1992, 125-135. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. With Haike Jacobs.

                       Nasal Vowels in Polish. In Sjef Barbiers, Marcel den Dikken and Claartje Levelt (eds.) Proceedings of the Leiden Conference for Junior Linguists 3, 219-231. Leiden: Leiden University Press. With Grażyna Rowicka.

                       On Deriving Minimal NPs. In Sjef Barbiers, Marcel den Dikken and Claartje Levelt (eds.) Proceedings of the Leiden Conference for Junior Linguists 3, 293-306. Leiden: Leiden University Press. With Marc Verhijde.

1991          Towards a Theory of Phonological Complexity. In Frank Drijkoningen and Ans van Kemenade (eds.) Linguistics in the Netherlands 1991, 141-150. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

1990         On V-Place Spreading vs. Feature Spreading in English Historical Phonology. The Linguistic Review 7(4), 311-332. With Carlos Gussenhoven.

1989         The Formation of Diminutive Names in Hungarian. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 39(1-4), 353-371.

3. Invited articles

2017        On machine interpreting: State of the art, problems and proposals. Global Humanities Quarterly (SISU). With Yu Wenting.

                   The nature and nurture of language. Global Humanities Quarterly (SISU).

2014       Affricates in English as a Natural Class.  In Johanneke Caspers, Yiya Chen, Willemijn Heeren, Jos Pacilly, Niels O. Schiller and Ellen van Zanten (eds.) Above and Beyond the Segments - Experimental Linguistics and Phonetics, 350-58. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2012        Entries for: anterior, back, complex segments, constricted glottis, continuant, contour segments, coronal, dorsal, feature geometry, high, labial, laryngeal node, lip rounding, low, low vowels, OCP, root node, round, slack vocal cords, soft palate, sonorant, sonorant obstruents, spread glottis, stiff vocal cords, and vowel height (German and English versions). In Tracy A. Hall and Bernd Pompino-Marschall (eds.) "Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft" [Dictionaries of Linguistics and Communication Science], Volume 4: Phonetics and Phonology. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

2010         Deriving the Alternation Condition. Modern Linguistic Society of Korea (eds.) The Interplay of Cognition and Grammar in Retrospect and in Prospect, 222-230. Daejeon: Mokwon University.

                    Optimality Theory: Experimental Extensions. In Tanaka Shinichi (ed.) Current Trends in Experimental OT and Laboratory Phonology. Special Issue of the Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan 14, 7-12.

2009        The English Language: Phonetics and Phonology. In William Baker and Kenneth Womack (eds.) The Year's Work in English Studies. Volume 87, Covering Work Published in 2007, 17-21. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2008       The English Language: Phonetics and Phonology. In William Baker and Kenneth Womack (eds.) The Year's Work in English Studies. Volume 86, Covering Work Published in 2006, 39-43. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2007       The English Language: Phonetics and Phonology. In William Baker and Kenneth Womack (eds.) The Year's Work in English Studies. Volume 86, Covering Work Published in 2005, 31-33. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2006       The English Language: Phonetics and Phonology. In William Baker and Kenneth Womack (eds.) The Year's Work in English Studies. Volume 85, Covering Work Published in 2004, 18-20. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

                    Autosegmental Phonology. In Keith Brown (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Second Edition. Volume I, 626-630. Oxford: Elsevier.

2005        The English Language: Phonetics and Phonology. In William Baker and Kenneth Womack (eds.) The Year's Work in English Studies. Volume 84, Covering Work Published in 2003, 19-23. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2004         Analogical Change. In Geert E. Booij, Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan and Stavros Skopeteas (eds.) Morphologie - Ein Handbuch zur Flexion und Wortbildung / Morphology - An International Handbook on Inflection and Word-FormationI, 1611-1615. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

                     The English Language: Phonetics and Phonology. In William Baker and Kenneth Womack (eds.) The Year's Work in English Studies. Volume 83, Covering Work Published in 2002, 3-5. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2003          Introduction. In Arie Verhagen and Jeroen van de Weijer (eds.) Usage-Based Approaches to Dutch - Lexicon, Grammar, Discourse, 1-7 (LOT Occasional Publications 1). Utrecht: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT). With Arie Verhagen.

                        East Meets West. Rendaku Voicing in Japanese and Linking Segments in Dutch Compounds. In Takeru Honma et al. (eds.) A New Century of Phonology and Phonological Theory - A Festschrift for Professor Shosuke Haraguchi on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday, 268-274. Tokyo: Kaitakusha.

                         Patterns of Segmental Modification in Consonant Inventories: Contrastive vs. Redundant Systems. In B. Palek, O. Fujimora and S. Berdan (eds.) Proceedings of LP2002. Prague: Charles University Press; Chiba: Meikai University Press. With Frans Hinskens.

                       The English Language: Phonetics and Phonology. In William Baker and Kenneth Womack (eds.) The Year's Work in English Studies. Volume 82, Covering Work Published in 2001, 7-10. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

                      Nasality, voice and more. In Jeroen van de Weijer, Vincent J. van Heuven and Harry van der Hulst (eds.) The Phonological Spectrum. Volume I: Segmental Structure, ix-x. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. With Vincent J. van Heuven and Harry van der Hulst.

                       Syllables, feet and higher up. In Jeroen van de Weijer, Vincent J. van Heuven and Harry van der Hulst (eds.) The Phonological Spectrum. Volume II: Suprasegmental Structure, ix-x. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. With Vincent J. van Heuven and Harry van der Hulst.

2002         The English Language: Phonetics and Phonology. In William Baker and Kenneth Womack (eds.) The Year's Work in English Studies. Volume 81, Covering Work Published in 2000, 6-8. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2001         The English Language: Phonetics and Phonology. In William Baker and Kenneth Womack (eds.) The Year's Work in English Studies. Volume 80, Covering Work Published in 1999, 9-11. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

                     v-Metathesis in Modern Georgian. In Elizabeth Hume, Norval Smith and Jeroen van de Weijer (eds.) Surface Syllable Structure and Segment Sequencing, 91-101 (HIL Occasional Papers 4). Leiden: Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics. With Marika Butskhrikidze.

                     The English Language: Phonetics and Phonology. In Peter J. Kitson (ed.) The Year's Work in English Studies (1998), 11-12. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

                     Headedness in Morphology: Tendencies in Loanword Truncation in Japanese. In Jeroen van de Weijer and Tetsuo Nishihara (eds.) Issues in Japanese Phonology and Morphology, 299-324. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. With Kensuke Nanjo and Tetsuo Nishihara.

2000           An Introduction to Optimality Theory: Phonology, Syntax, and Acquisition. In Joost Dekkers, Frank van der Leeuw and Jeroen van de Weijer (eds.) Optimality Theory: Phonology, Syntax, and Acquisition, 1-44. Oxford: Oxford University Press. With Paul Boersma and Joost Dekkers.

2000        The English Language: Phonetics and Phonology. In Peter J. Kitson (ed.) The Year's Work in English Studies (1997), 5-7. Oxford: Blackwell.

1998        Analogical Change. In Sjef Barbiers, Johan Rooryck and Jeroen van de Weijer (eds.) Small Words in the Big Picture – Squibs for Hans Bennis, 121-25. HIL Occasional Papers 2. Leiden: Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics.

1995      Nonlinear Phonology 1982-1992. In Harry van der Hulst and Jeroen van de Weijer (eds.) Leiden in Last, 1-24 (HIL Phonology Papers I). The Hague: Holland Academic Graphics. With Harry van der Hulst.

1991      Topics in Turkish Phonology. In Hendrik E. Boeschoten and Ludo T. Verhoeven (eds.) Turkish Linguistics Today, 11-59. Leiden: Brill. With Harry van der Hulst.

4. Other publications (incl. proceedings, reviews)

2021       The study of phonological neighborhoods in Chinese L1 and L2 speech production. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Algorithms, Computing and Artificial Intelligence (ACAI 2020) (ACM Digital Library), 14-19. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. With Xie Tongtong, Ye Haiying and Wang Hongyan.

                    A comparative study of yes/no question intonation in Chinese and English speakers. In Madjid Tavana, Nadia Nedjah & Reda Alhajj (eds.), Emerging Trends in Intelligent and Interactive Systems and Applications: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent, Interactive Systems and Applications (IISA2020) (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 1304), 302-309. Cham: Springer. With Guo Qing and Wang Hongyan.

                   Review of Janet Z. Xing (ed.) 2020. A Typological Approach to Grammaticalization and Lexicalization: East Meets West. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Lingua 250, 102949. With Lu Man.

 2020         Editorial assistant for Harry van der Hulst (2020) Principles of Radical CV Phonology; A Theory of Segmental and Syllabic Structure (Edinburgh Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 4). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

                    American, French and Chinese English vowels: Perception by Chinese listeners. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Algorithms, Computing and Artificial Intelligence (ACAI 2019), Sanya, China (ACM Digital Library), 409-414. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. With Lei Jiayu, Cui Wanying and Wang Hongyan.

                     Native language identification: The role of consonants. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Algorithms, Computing and Artificial Intelligence (ACAI 2019), Sanya, China (ACM Digital Library), 403-408. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. With Huang Yichen, Wang Hongyan, and Zhu Zhengfei.

                    Native language identification by stop VOT: Chinese, French and English speakers. In Fatos Xhafa, Srikanta Patnaik and Madjid Tavana (eds.), Advances in intelligent systems and interactive applications. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent, Interactive Systems and Applications (IISA2019) (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 1084), 469-474. Cham: Springer. With Wu Meichen, Dai Zhehan and Wang Hongyan.

                     Is he angry or happy? Recognizing emotionally-accented English speech. In Fatos Xhafa, Srikanta Patnaik and Madjid Tavana (eds.), Advances in intelligent systems and interactive applications. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent, Interactive Systems and Applications (IISA2019) (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 1084), 333-338. Cham: Springer. With Peng Hui, Liu Siliu and Wang Hongyan.

2019        The interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit disappears under noisy conditions. 2019 World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability (WorldS4), 339-43 (author PDF). London: IEEE. With Xiao Haiyan, Wang Hongyan and Jin Nana.

                     Acoustic characteristics of lexical tone disruption in Mandarin speakers after brain damage. Proceedings of Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria, 4534-4538. With Chen Wenjun, Zhu Shuangshuang, Qian Qian, and Wang Manna. 

2018         Hoe veranderen sterke werkwoorden? NEMO Kennislink (popular-scientific). With Eric Hoekstra, Anne Merkuur, and Marjoleine Sloos.

                      Editorial assistant for Harry van der Hulst (2018): Asymmetries in vowel harmony: A representational account. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

                     Register, tone, and consonant-vowel coarticulation. In Katarzyna Klessa et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Poznań, 15-19. Poznań: International Speech Communication Association. With Marjoleine Sloos and Ran Yunyun.       

2015        The Perception of the English Nasal Coda Contrast by Bilingual Changsha Chinese Learners of English. In Ding Hongwei et al. (eds.), Proceedings of O-COCOSDA/CASLRE 2015, Shanghai Jiaotong University, October 28-30, 2015, 284-289. Shanghai: Shanghai Jiaotong University. With Wu Minghui.

2012         Review Article: Wyn Johnson and Paula Reimer (2010) Patterns in Child Phonology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. English Studies 93(2), 227-232.

                     The Adaptation of English Initial Clusters by Persian Learners. Journal of Teaching Language Skills 3(4): 59-76. With Ali Jabbari, Parvin Safari and Faraneh Falaknaz.

                     On Syllable-Timed Rhythm and Stress-Timed Rhythm in World Englishes: Revisited. Bulletin of Miyagi University of Education 46, 155-163. With Tetsuo Nishihara.

2011         Review of Nina Topintzi (2010), Onsets - Suprasegmental and Prosodic Behaviour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Lingua 121(2), 323-327.

2006         Review of Laura J. Downing, Tracy Alan Hall and Renate Raffelsiefen (eds.) (2005), Paradigms in Phonological Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Journal of Linguistics 42(1), 195-199.

2002         Review of Ho-Min Sohn (1999), The Korean Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Lingua 112(6), 481-487. With Sang-Jik Rhee.

                    On Gumption. In Kensuke Nanjo and Tetsuo Nishihara (eds.) Aspects of English Sounds: Essays in Honour of Professor Yosihiro Masuya, 47-53. Nisshin, Aichi: The English Phonetics Society of Japan.

1998        Structure Preservation Revisited. Proceedings of the Kansai Linguistic Society 18, 230-240. Osaka: Kansai Linguistic Society. With Tetsuo Nishihara and Kensuke Nanjo.

                    Review of Iggy Roca (ed.) (1997), Derivations and Constraints in Phonology. Oxford: Clarendon Press. GLOT International 3.4, 22-23.

1996        Review of M.E. Kidda (1993), Tangale Phonology – A Descriptive Analysis. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 17, 101-105.

1995        Sound Book. Review of Michael Kenstowicz (1995), Phonology in Generative Grammar. Cambridge, Mass. and Oxford: Blackwell. GLOT International 1.2, 18-19. With Ellis Visch.

1994       Review of José  I. Hualde (1991) Basque Phonology. London: Routledge. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 47(3), 225-230.

5. Presentations

2022   An Exemplar approach to vowel harmony. Keynote speech at the Fifth International Seminar on Language and Interdisciplinary Research: New Trends in Research on Language. Pattimura University, Indonesia (co-organised by Khon Kaen University, Thailand) (October 2022). 

                  Spatial and aspectual constraints on lexical alternations in Putonghua. Fourth International Symposium on Chinese Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISOCTAL 4), Leeds, UK (June 2022). With Song Zhenjun.

                  Languages do not favour large sonority distances. Manchester Phonology Meeting (29mfm), Edinburgh, UK (May 2022). With Yin Ruihua.

2021      A prosodic comparison between Chinese and English response tokens. Workshop “Building responses in Chinese talk-in-interaction” at the 17th International Pragmatics Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland (June 2021). With Gao Hua.

                  (i) Ish in English; (ii) Zigzag reduplication in English. Papers presented (invited) at Xi’an International Studies University, Xi’an, China (April 2021).

                   L2 acquisition of a variable pattern: -man compounds in English. Paper presented at  the Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands, Utrecht, Netherlands (January 2021). With Marjoleine Sloos and Wei Weiyun.

2020       The study of phonological neighborhoods in Chinese L1 and L2 speech production. Paper presented at the 3rd International Conference on Algorithms, Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Sanya, China (December 2020). With Xie Tongtong, Ye Haiying and Wang Hongyan.  

                   Words are constructions, too: A construction-based approach to ablaut reduplication in English (invited). Linguistic Kaleidoscope 2020, English and Foreign Language University, Hyderabad, India (November 2020) and the Third International Seminar on “Language and Interdisciplinary Research on Language”, Language Study Center, Pattimura University, Ambon Maluku, Indonesia (November 2020).

                   Adaptation of Melodic Intonation Therapy to a tone language: A study of tone-rhythmic therapy. Proposal accepted for the Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, San Diego, CA, USA (November 2020, convention cancelled). With Chen Wenjun, Zhu Shuangshuang, Wang Manna and Liu Yilan.

                  A comparative study of yes/no question intonation in Chinese and English speakers. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Intelligent, Interactive Systems and Applications (IISA2020), Shanghai, China (July/September 2020). With Guo Qing and Wang Hongyan.

                  Mutual intelligibility of seven Xiang dialectal varieties. Paper presented at Linguistics in the Netherlands, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands (February 2020). With Wang Hongyan, Liu Ji and Vincent J. van Heuven.

2019      Native language identification: The role of consonants. The 2nd International Conference on Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing, Sanya (December 2019). With Huang Yichen, Zhu Zhengfei and Wang Hongyan.

                  American, French and Chinese English vowels: Perception by Chinese listeners. The 2nd International Conference on Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing, Sanya (December 2019). With Lei Jiayu, Cui Wanying and Wang Hongyan. 

                   Acoustic characteristics of lexical tone disruption in Mandarin speakers after brain damage. Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria (September 2019). With Chen Wenjun, Zhu Shuangshuang, Qian Qian and Wang Manna.  

                  The interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit disappears under noisy conditions. World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability (WS4 2019), London (July 2019). With Xiao Haiyan, Wang Hongyan and Jin Nana.  

                   Is he angry or happy? Recognizing emotionally-accented English speech. The 4th International Conference on Intelligent, Interactive Systems and Applications (IISA2019), Bangkok, Thailand (June 2019). With Peng Hui, Liu Siliu and Wang Hongyan.

                   Native language identification by stop VOT: Chinese, French and English speakers. The 4th International Conference on Intelligent, Interactive Systems and Applications (IISA2019), Bangkok, Thailand (June 2019). With Wu Meichen, Dai Zhehan, Lv Lou and Wang Hongyan.

                     The Boarnsterhim Corpus: A bilingual Frisian-Dutch sociolinguistic spoken language database. Paper presented at Linguistics in the Netherlands, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands (February 2019). With Marjoleine Sloos, Andrea Ariza García, Eduard Drenth and Wilbert Heeringa.

                     Constraints on contrasting constructions: Three reduplication patterns in English, two productive, one unproductive (keynote speech; invited). Paper presented at the First International Symposium on SLA-Based Language Pedagogy, Jinan University, Guangzhou (January 2019).

2018        Words are constructions, too: A construction-based approach to ablaut reduplication in English (invited). Paper presented at Fryske Akademy, Ljouwert (The Netherlands). With Wei Weiyun, Wang Yumeng, Ren Guangyuan and Ran Yunyun (July 2018).

                    Register, tone, and consonant-vowel coarticulation. Speech Prosody 18, Poznań, Poland (June 2018). With Marjoleine Sloos and Ran Yunyun.

                   Writing for international journals (invited). Jining University (Qufu) (June 2018).

                   Reduplication in English (invited). Beijing Foreign Studies University (March 2018). Also at Shanghai University for Science and Technology (April 2018) and Linguistic Salon, Shanghai International Studies University (June 2018).

                   Regularity in English irregular past tense forms and past participles. Linguistics in the Netherlands, Utrecht, Netherlands (February 2018). With Eric Hoekstra, Marjoleine Sloos and Anne Merkuur.

                   Vowel reduction in English -man compounds. Linguistics in the Netherlands, Utrecht, Netherlands (February 2018). With Marjoleine Sloos and Wei Weiyun. 

                   Schwa deletion and final devoicing in West Frisian. Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP 15), London and Essex (January 2018). With Marjoleine Sloos and Andrea Ariza Garcia. 

2017      Reduplication in English (invited). Hunan University (November 2017).

                  The nature and nurture of language. Keynote address, First Biennial International Conference on Linguistics (BICL 17), Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai (June 2017).

                   Extreme coarticulation in Huangyan Taizhou. First Biennial International Conference on Linguistics (BICL 17), Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai. With Marjoleine Sloos and Ran Yunyun (June 2017).

                  Tone-segment interaction in Huangyan Taizhou (Wu). Paper presented at GLOW Workshop: The Interface Within - What Relationships Hold between Prosody and Melody?, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (March 2017).

                  Extreme coarticulation in Huangyan Taizhou. Paper presented at Linguistics in the Netherlands, Utrecht, the Netherlands (February 2017). With Marjoleine Sloos and Ran Yunyun.

                 Cantonese tones in English intonation. Paper presented at Linguistics in the Netherlands, Utrecht, the Netherlands (February 2017). With Marjoleine Sloos and Ran Yunyun.

                  Analogie, frequentie en de mentale representatie van paradigma’s [Analogy, frequency and the mental representation of paradigms]. Paper presented at Linguistics in the Netherlands, Utrecht, the Netherlands (February 2017). With Eric Hoekstra, Anne Merkuur and Marjoleine Sloos.

2016      The Perception of the English Alveolar-velar Nasal Coda Contrast by Monolingual versus Bilingual Chinese Speakers. Paper presented at the 10th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2016), Tianjin, China (October 2016). Also at the Third Workshop on Chinese Accents and Accented Chinese. Fudan University, Shanghai, China (October 2016). With Wu Minghui and Marjoleine Sloos.

                   Taizhou: A Preliminary Investigation. Paper presented at the Third Workshop on Chinese Accents and Accented Chinese. Fudan University, Shanghai, China (October 2016). With Marjoleine Sloos and Ran Yunyun.

                   Monosyllables in English and Chinese. Poster presented at the 8th International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics, Bloomington, Indiana (USA) (August 2016). With Ran Yunyun.

                   (1) Acquisition of Optimality Theory, (2) Acquisition in Optimality Theory. Third Tongji Summer School in Phonetics and Phonology, Tongji University (July 2016).

                    Accents in Danish: A Perceptual Study. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands, University of Utrecht (Netherlands) (February 2016). With Marjoleine Sloos and Yan Mengzhu.

2015       Towards Automatic Interpreting. Friday Linguistic Salon, Shanghai International Studies University (December 2015). With Yu Wenting.

                    On L2 English Intonation Patterns by Mandarin and Shanghainese Speakers: A Pilot Study. Workshop Chinese Accents and Accented Chinese 2, Shanghai (October 2015). With Ran Yunyun.

                     The Perception of the English Nasal Coda Contrast by Bilingual Changsha Chinese Learners of English. O-COCOSDA/CASLRE 2015, Shanghai (October 2015). With Wu Minghui.

                      What does it Take to Learn *COMPLEX? Evidence from Greek L1 Developmental Data. 12th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Free University of Berlin (Germany) (September 2015). With Marina Tzakosta.

2014          Higher Education in the Netherlands. Shanghai International Studies University (December 2014).

                      What can Adult Speech Tell us about Child Language Acquisition? Friday Linguistic Salon, Shanghai International Studies University (October 2014) and Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands, University of Utrecht (Netherlands) (February 2015). With Marjoleine Sloos.

                       The Role of Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition. Workshop Chinese Accents and Accented Chinese, Fudan University (October 2014).

                        On the Development of Final [r] in British English. The 39th Meeting of the Kansai Linguistic Society, Osaka: Osaka University (June 2014). With Tetsuo Nishihara.

                         The  Four Tones of Mandarin Chinese: Representation and Acquisition. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands, University of Utrecht (The Netherlands) (February 2014) and Friday Linguistic Salon, Shanghai International Studies University (June 2014). With Marjoleine Sloos.

2013              On the Origin of Constraints. Friday Linguistic Salon, Shanghai International Studies University (April 2013) and Nijmegen Phonology Workshop (November 2013).

                         The Sounds and Rules of Dutch. Shanghai International Studies University (April 2013).

                          Acquiring Markedness Constraints: The Case of French. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands, University of Utrecht (The Netherlands) (February 2013). Also at Manchester Phonology Meeting (May 2013) and Nijmegen Child Phonology Conference (June 2013). With Marjoleine Sloos.

2012               Learning Constraints: The Case of English Initial Consonant Clusters. College of English Language and Literature, Shanghai International Studies University (December 2012).

                          Learning Constraints. Friday Linguistic Salon, Shanghai International Studies University (November 2012).

                          Proper-Name Identification. Poster. Speech Prosody 2012, Tongji University, Shanghai (May 2012). Also at Friday Linguistic Salon, Shanghai International Studies University (May 2012). With Joost van de Weijer and Yan Beili.

2011               Rendaku in the Combined Theory. NINJAL International Conference on Phonetics and Phonology. Kyoto (Japan) (keynote speech; invited) (December 2011).

                           Grammar as Selection: Combining Optimality with Exemplar Theory. Tongji University Summer School in Phonology (August 2011).

                           Underspecification in Optimality Theory. Tongji University Summer School in Phonology (August 2011).

                           Free Variation is not Free. Friday Linguistic Salon, Shanghai International Studies University (May 2011).

                          On the Role of Adjacency in Morphological Stress Shift. ELSJ 4th International Spring Forum 2011, Hamamatsu, Japan (April 2011). With Tetsuo Nishihara.

                           Grammar as Selection. National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi (Taiwan) (invited) (January 2011).

                           Segment Inventories and Segmental Structure. National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu (Taiwan) (invited) (January 2011).

2010               Segment Inventories and Segmental Structure. Friday Linguistic Salon, Shanghai International Studies University (December 2010).

                           Segmental Variation in Japanese. The 141st Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Tohoku University, Sendai City (Japan) (November 2010).

                           Derivation and Inflection in English Morphology. Miyagi University of Education, Sendai City (Japan) (November 2010).

                           Grammar as Selection: Deriving the Alternation Condition. Meeting of the Modern Linguistic Society of Korea, Mokwon University, Daejeon (Korea) (November 2010).

                           Grammar as Selection (invited; keynote lecture). China's 13th International Conference on Contemporary Linguistics, Shanghai (October 2010).

                           Pronunciation Errors in Learners' Interlanguage. Eighth International Conference of the Teaching English Language and Literature Society of Iran (TELLSI), Al Zahrah University, Tehran (Iran) (October 2010). With Faraneh Falaknaz.

                          Consonant-Vowel Interaction in Sichuan Chinese: An OT Analysis. The First International Phonetics-Phonology Conference in Shanghai (IPPCS I) (May 2010). With Chen Shunting.

                          Interaction between Tone and Nasality. Shanghai International Studies University.

2009              Experimental Optimality Theory. Workshop at the Phonology Forum, Kobe University, Kobe (Japan) (invited) (August 2009).

2008              Autonomy, Harmony, Typology: OT and ET. Phonology Forum (August 2008), Kanazawa City (Japan) (invited; keynote lecture).

                          A Theory of Everything in Linguistics. Dalian Foreign Language University, Dalian (China) (May 2008).

2007              Communication is only Possible because we have Grammar. Northeast Normal University, Changchun (China) (July 2007) (invited).

                          Compromising in the Communication Conflict: The Demands of Speakers, the Demands of Listeners and what to do about it. Shenzhen University, Shenzhen (China) (April 2007) (invited).

2005             I Love Lazy. University of the Aegean, Rhodos (Greece) (April 2005) (invited).

                         Voicing in Turkish. University of the Aegean (Greece) (April 2005) (invited)

2004             De Lof der Luiheid. HIVT, University of Antwerp (November 2004) (invited).

                         Complex Segments - A Cross-Linguistic Survey. University of Leipzig, Leipzig (Germany) (May 2004) (invited).

                         Markedness and Segmental Complexity: A Cross-Linguistic Study. GLOW Phonology Workshop, Thessaloniki (Greece) (April 2004). With Frans Hinskens.

                         Phonetics and Phonology of Segmental Complexity: Distribution, Status and Economy. DGfS workshop, Mainz (Germany) (February 2004) (invited). With Frans Hinskens.

                         Patterns of Segmental Complexity in Consonantal Inventories. TINdag Utrecht (February 2004). With Frans Hinskens.

2003             Dutch meets Hungarian meets Russian: Representations meet Constraints. NWO-OTKA Meeting, Budapest (Hungary) (December 2003) (invited). With Ben Hermans.

                         Epenthesis of [I] in Native and Loanword Korean Phonology. The 2nd Korean International Conference on Phonology, Seoul (Korea) (June 2003). With Sang Jik Rhee.

                          Segmental Modification in Consonant Inventories. Distribution, Status and Economy. University of Barcelona (Spain), May 2003 (invited) and Tilburg University, September 2003 (invited). With Frans Hinskens.

                          Segmental Modification and Feature Economy. ERSS Workshop, Bordeaux (France) (March 2003) (invited). With Frans Hinskens.

                          Patterns of Segmental Modification in Consonant Inventories. Contrast vs. Redundancy and Phonology vs. Phonetics. TINdag Utrecht (February 2003). With Frans Hinskens.

2002              Dutch Diminutives: Deventer and Beyond. Morfologiedagen, Meertens Institute (December 2002) (invited). With Boudewijn van den Berg.

                          Voicing in Japanese. Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar (October 2002).

                          Patterns of Segmental Modification in Consonant Inventories: Contrastive vs. Redundant Systems. LP2002, Tokyo (Japan) (September 2002) (invited). With Frans Hinskens.

                          An Optimality Theoretical Analysis of the Dutch Diminutive. TINdag 2002 and Groningen Linguistics Colloquium (invited).

                         On the Role of Phonological, Morphological and Semantic Headedness in Acquisition. GLIP 4, Warsaw (Poland) (March 2002). With Marina Tzakosta.

2001             On the Behaviour of Affricates in Georgian. TINdag Utrecht and University of British Columbia in Vancouver (invited). With Marika Butskhrikidze.

2000             On the Formal Representation of Metathesis in Phonological Theory: v-Metathesis in Modern Georgian. Dfg Meeting Düsseldorf (invited), Tilburg University (invited) and University of British Columbia in Vancouver (invited). With Marika Butskhrikidze.

1998              On Analogical Change. Meeting of the Phonological Society of Japan, Kobe (Japan) (invited).