Lily Xu
Department of linguistics,
3125 Campbell Hall,
UCLA, Los Angeles, 90095.
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Welcome!
I'm a fourth-year graduate student in the Department of Linguistics at UCLA.
My main research interests lie in phonology, especially its interface with morphology. I use experimental and computational methods to understand how people acquire and represent (morpho)phonological knowledge. I'm also interested in Semitic languages and Arabic in particular.
Recent updates:
I just published a paper in the Mental Lexicon titled "A meta-analytic review of morphological priming in Semitic languages" with Elizabeth Solá-Llonch, Huilei Wang, and Megha Sundara. [link] [preprint]
I gave a talk titled "Hebrew t-sibilant sequences: two ways to represent morphologically conditioned phonology" with Elizabeth Solá-Llonch at MFM 30. [slides]
I gave a talk titled "Phonological and morphological conditioning of syncope in Cantel K’iche’" at WAIL 25. [slides]
About me:
My name in Chinese is Xi Xu (许希), but I go by Lily because of the difficulty of guessing how the x is pronounced and a minimal word restriction that is at least active in my idiolect. My last name can be pronounced as [ɕỳ] (true to Mandarin) or [ʃu] (more anglicized), but is not pronounced [zu] (prithee) or [xu].