Journal articles
Xu, Lily. (2025). Nonconcatenative morphological domains constrain phonotactics: a case study on Egyptian Arabic. Phonology 42. [preprint] [OSF]
Xu, Lily, Elizabeth Solá-Llonch, Huilei Wang, & Megha Sundara. (2023). A meta-analytic review of morphological priming in Semitic languages. The Mental Lexicon 18(2), 300-337. [preprint] [OSF]
Conference proceedings
Abbas, Abeer A., Lily Xu, & Megha Sundara. (2025). Morphological Structure in the Arabic Mental Lexicon: Productivity and Priming Effects in Nominal and Verbal Patterns. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 47.
Xu, Lily. 2022. Consonant-vowel interactions inform paradigm organization in Egyptian Arabic. In P. Jurgec, L. Duncan, E. Elfner, Y. Kang, A. Kochetov, B. O'Neill, A. Ozburn, K. Rice, N. Sanders, J. Schertz, N. Shaftoe, and L. Sullivan (Eds), Proceedings of the 2021 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America. [paper]
Presentations
Solá-Llonch, Elizabeth & Lily Xu. 2023. Avoidance of t-sibilant sequences in Hebrew is general, but re-pair is morpheme-specific. Talk presented at the 30th Manchester Phonology Meeting (MFM), University of Manchester. [slides]
Xu, Lily. 2023. Phonological and morphological conditioning of syncope in Cantel K’iche. Talk pre-sented at the 25th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), UCSB. [slides]
Xu, Lily. 2022. Allomorphy via subcategorization in Cantel K'iche'. Talk presented at AMP 2022, UCLA. [slides]
Xu, Lily. 2022. Nonce word evidence for paradigm structure in Egyptian Arabic verbs. Talk presented at the 37th annual conference of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL), Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [slides]
Xu, Lily & Claire Moore-Cantwell. 2022. Modeling grammatical breakdown under processing load. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of CogSci Society, virtual. [slides]
Xu, Lily. 2022. Representation of Verbal Paradigms by Egyptian Arabic Speakers: Evidence from Wazn I Vowels. Talk presented at the 35th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (ASAL), Georgetown University.
Solá-Llonch, Elizabeth & Lily Xu. 2022. Acoustics of the fortis-lenis contrast in Lachirioag Zapotec: a pre-liminary investigation. Talk presented at the 2022 SSILA annual meeting, virtual. [slides]
Xu, Lily. 2021. Consonant-vowel interactions inform paradigm organization in Egyptian Arabic verbs. Talk presented at AMP 2021, virtual. [slides]
Thesis
Xu, Lily. 2021. Predicting (the unpredictable) vowel distributions in Egyptian Arabic verbs: a lexicon study. Unpublished MA thesis, UCLA. [paper]