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Serial Harmonic Grammar

Pater, Joe. 2010. Serial Harmonic Grammar and Berber syllabification. In Toni Borowsky, Shigeto Kawahara, Takahito Shinya & Mariko Sugahara (eds.) Prosody Matters: Essays in Honor of Lisa Selkirk. London: Equinox Publishing. [Available here]

Pater, Joe. 2008. Serial Harmonic Grammar. Handout from University of Southern California Colloquium. [slides]

Harmonic Serialism

Becker, Michael. 2007. Prudent error-driven learning with OT-CC. Paper presented at NECPhon 1, UMass Amherst. [Available here]

Elfner, Emily. 2009. Syllabification and stress-epenthesis interactions in Harmonic Serialism. ROA-1047

Jesney, Karen. 2009. Positional Faithfulness, Non-locality, and the Harmonic Serialism Solution. ROA-1018.

Kimper, Wendell. 2009. Constraints on what's not there: The role of serial derivations in subtractive truncation. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Amherst. [handout]

Kimper, Wendell. 2008. Local Optionality and Harmonic Serialism. ROA-988.

McCarthy, John. To appear. Pausal Phonology and Morpheme Realization. In Prosody Matters: Essays in Honor of Lisa Selkirk. ROA-1048

McCarthy, John. To appear. Studying Gen. Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan. ROA-1049

McCarthy, John. 2009. The P-Map in Harmonic Serialism. ROA-1052

McCarthy, John. 2009. Autosegmental spreading in Optimality Theory. ROA-1050

McCarthy, John. 2009. Harmony in Harmonic Serialism.ROA-1009.

McCarthy, John. 2008. The gradual path to cluster simplification. Phonology 25:271-319. [pre-publication version]

McCarthy, John. 2008. The serial interaction of stress and syncope. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 26:3, pp. 499-546. [pre-publication version]

McCarthy, John J. 2007. Hidden Generalizations: Phonological Opacity in Optimality Theory. London: Equinox. [See here.]

McCarthy, John J. 2007. Restraint of analysis. In Sylvia Blaho, Patrik Bye, and Martin Krämer (eds.) Freedom of Analysis. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 203-231. [Available here.]

McCarthy, John. 2007. Slouching towards optimality: Coda reduction in OT-CC. Phonological Studies (Journal of the Phonological Society of Japan) 7, 89-104. ROA-878

McCarthy, John J. 2000. Harmonic serialism and parallelism. In Masako Hirotani, Andries Coetzee, Nancy Hall, and Ji-yung Kim, eds., Proceedings of the North East Linguistics Society 30. Amherst, MA: GLSA. Pp. 501-524. ROA-357.

Pruitt, Kathryn. 2008. Iterative foot optimization and locality in stress systems. ROA-999.

Wolf, Matthew. 2008. Optimal Interleaving: Serial Phonology-Morphology Interaction in a Constraint-Based Model. ROA-996.

Harmonic Grammar

Boersma, Paul & Pater, Joe. 2008. Convergence Properties of a Gradual Learning Algorithm for Harmonic Grammar. ROA-970

Coetzee, Andries & Pater, Joe. 2008. The place of variation in phonological theory. To appear in John Goldsmith, Jason Riggle, and Alan Yu (eds.), The Handbook of Phonological Theory (2nd ed.). Blackwell. ROA 946

Coetzee, Andries & Pater, Joe. 2008. Weighted constraints and gradient restrictions on place co-occurrence in Muna and Arabic. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 26:289-337. ROA-950.

Jesney, Karen. 2009/to appear. Licensing in multiple contexts: an argument for Harmonic Grammar. In Proceedings of the 45th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 45). [paper]

Jesney, Karen. 2009. Uniformity effects as a consequence of learning with lexical constraints. Poster presented at the KNAW Colloquium on Language Acquisition and Optimality Theory. Amsterdam. [Available here]

Jesney, Karen & Tessier, Anne-Michelle. 2008. Gradual Learning and Faithfulness: Consequences of Ranked vs. Weighted Constraints. ROA-967.

Pater, Joe. 2009. Systemic Simplicity in Phonological Learning and Typology. Paper presented at the KNAW Colloquium on Language Acquisition and Optimality Theory, Amsterdam. [slides]

Pater, Joe. 2008. Review of Smolensky and Legendre (2006), The Harmonic Mind. Phonology 26: 217-226. ROA-983

Pater, Joe. 2008. Weighted Constraints in Generative Linguistics. Cognitive Science 33:999-1035. ROA-982

Pater, Joe. 2007. Gradual learning and convergence. ROA-917

Potts, Christopher, Pater, Joe, Jesney, Karen, Bhatt, Rajesh & Becker, Michael. 2009. Harmonic Grammar with Linear Programming: From linear systems to linguistic typology. ROA-984.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number BCS-0813829 (2008-2012). Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).