faculty

Many of our students are invited to participate in our highly selective Honors Program and write an Honors Thesis in Linguistics:
Yaser Rad (5/2008) “Adjectival and Possessive Constructions in the East and West: Nominal Phrase Structure Analysis of Pashtu, Farsi and the Rest” (Prof. Richard Larson)
Chris La Terza (8/2008) “The Definite Article” (Prof. Richard Larson)
Amanda Blustein (5/2009) “Differences among Reading Levels” (Prof. Mark Aronoff),

The Relationship Between the Production and Perception of Foreign Language Sequences

The End of the Word in Makassar Languages

• Unmarked structures and emergent rankings in second language phonology
• Stress adaptation in loanword phonology: perception and learnability

I. New year sunrises

1. 2004 sunrise at Montauk lighthouse

2. 2005 sunrise at Jones Beach

II. Momories

1. in a western coast in Norway

III. Dissertation (in preparation)

• Proposal defense (Aug.2007)
• Title: Variability of onset consonants in relation to prosody: intra-/inter- language variation
• Abstract:

I. Paper presentation

1. Miran Kim. 2006. "Multiple cue interpretation in non-native phoneme perception:Korean listeners’ perception of English [s] in varied prosodic contexts. 4th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, Hawaii.
2. Miran Kim. 2006. "Prosodic effects on segments and non-native phoneme perception: a case study of English /s/ perception by Korean listeners". CUNY/SUNY/NYU Mini Conference. Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York.

Lg Mind Brain Seminar, Fall 2007: Schedule and Readings
• Class will normally meet on Mondays 12:50-3:40 in Psych A-256 (but see Weeks 4,5).
• Readings are in the ‘course documents’ section on the Blackboard site for this class.
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Wk 1, Sept. 10: General Intro
• Discussion of course format, requirements, etc.
• Discussion of course goals, issues. Recommended reading:

Books

• The Prosodic Structures of Northern Italian Dialects
  Amsterdam and Boston: Kluwer, to appear
• Phonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy
  (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 212)
  Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000

Articles

• "Morphological Epenthesis" Festschrift for Laura Vanelli (to appear) (co- authored with Anna Cardinaletti).

Books

• Polish Syllables: The Role of Prosody in Phonology and Morphology (Slavica, 1992)
• Slavic Prosody: Language Change and Phonological Theory (Cambridge, 1998), paperback (Cambridge, 2006)

Articles

• “Nasal Vowel Alternations in Polish,” Folia Slavica, 8.2-3 (1987), published 1989, 169-84.

Ellen Broselow's research is in the areas of phonology, second language acquisition, and the interface of phonology with phonetics, morphology, and syntax. Languages and language families she has worked on include Arabic, Salish, Bantu, and Indonesian languages of Sulawesi. In second language phonology, she has investigated the adaptation of loanwords and the errors made by second language learners in production and perception.