Publications
2020. “Language contact and Cypriot Maronite Arabic.” In Arabic and Contact-Induced Change. Ed. by Christopher Lucas and Stefano Manfredi. Language Science Press.
2020. “Neuter to none: A diachronic perspective on loanword gender in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian.” In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Ed. by Bridget Drinka. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Mary Ann Walter and Imogen Lemon. 2018. “Towards a typology of sibling languages.” Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics.
2018. “The significance of vowel insertion in Ottoman Turkish.” In The Rouen Meeting: Studies on Turkic Structures and Language Contacts. Turcologica 114. Ed. by Mehmet Ali Akinci and Kutlay Yagmur. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz-Verlag.
Reza Neiriz Naghadehi and Mary Ann Walter. 2018. “Increasing Proficiency Test Predictive Power with a Computerized Speaking Component.” In Bridging Teaching, Learning and Assessment in the English Language Classroom. Ed. by Tijen Aksit, Hande Isil Mengu and Robin Turner. Cambridge Scholars Press.
2017. “Frequency distributions as faithfulness targets: Or, why Bulgarian feminized Turkish nouns.” Proceedings of the 24th Meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics. Eds. Yohei Oseki, Masha Esipova, and Stephanie Harves. Michigan Slavic Publications, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
2016. “Lexical strata and vowel (dis)harmony: The Turkish transformation of a Balkan hypocoristic.” Linguistica 56:1, 309-320.
2014. “Phonetic effects on American English flapping: The role of consonant repetition.” In Proceedings of the International Anniversary Conference 40 Years Philologies. Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarski Philological Faculty. (skip to page 415)
2014. Cultural Difference and Social Solidarity: Solidarities and Social Function, S. Boyd and M.A. Walter (Eds). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.2012. “Babel in church and mosque: Community construction in the Gulf states.” In Cultural Difference and Social Solidarity, S. Boyd and M.A. Walter (Eds). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.
2012. Review of Patterns in Child Phonology, P. Reimers and W. Johnson. Phonology 29.
2012. Cultural Difference and Social Solidarity: Critical Cases, S. Boyd and M.A. Walter (Eds). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.
2011. “Probability matching and Arabic morphology.” In Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics, E. Broselow and H. Ouali (Eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Bradlow, Ann, Cynthia Clopper, Rajka Smiljanic, Mary Ann Walter. 2010. “A perceptual similarity space for languages: Evidence from five native language listener groups.” Speech Communication.
2010. “Vowel cooccurrence in the lexicon: An anti-OCP effect?” Journal of Laboratory Phonology.
2008. “Repetition leads to lenition in consonant sequences.” Proceedings of the Eighth International Seminar on Speech Production.
Walter, Mary Ann and T. Florian Jaeger. 2008. “Constraints on English that-drop: A strong lexical OCP effect.” Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS).
Hacquard, Valentine, Mary Ann Walter and Alec Marantz. 2007. “The effects of inventory on vowel perception in French and Spanish: An MEG study.” Brain and Language.
2006. “Grammatical gender via lexical statistics: The case of Arabic-to-Spanish loanwords.” In Studies in Loanword Phonology, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 52, F.F. Hsieh & M. Kenstowicz (Eds.) Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.
2006. “Pharyngealization effects in Maltese Arabic.” In Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics, S. Boudelaa (Ed.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2005. “Child Language.” Encyclopedia of the Arabic Language and Linguistics. Leiden: Brill.
Walter, Mary Ann and Valentine Hacquard. 2004. “MEG evidence for phonological underspecification.” Proceedings of BioMag 2004.
2004. “Loan adaptation in Zazaki Kurdish.” Studies in Zazaki Grammar. Working Papers in Endangered and Less Familiar Languages 6, M. Kenstowicz (Ed.) Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.
Hacquard, Valentine and Mary Ann Walter. 2004. “Correlating consonant confusability and brain responses: An MEG study.” Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society (BLS), P. Novak & C. Yoquelet (Eds.) Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistic Society.
2004. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Altaic and Formal Linguistics (WAFL 1). A. Csirmaz, Y. Lee, & M. A. Walter (Eds.). Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.
2003. “Kalaam, Kalaarbaam: An Arabic Language Game in Hadramaut, Yemen.” Proceedings of the 10th Annual Symposium about Language and Society – Austin (SALSA). Austin: Texas Linguistic Forum v. 45.
Bowern, Claire and Victoria Lotridge. 2002. Ndebele. Munich: Lincom Europa. Contributor.
1999. Harvard University Working Papers in Linguistics 7.