LASC David Teeple

Graduate Student
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Cruz
dteeple[at]ucsc[dot]edu
Office: Stevenson, 240

Curriculum Vitae [pdf]

I'm interested mainly in phonology and morphology, as well as the prosody-syntax connection, especially with regard to claims of parallel evaluation and constraint intermingling. I'm also interested in bringing these disciplines to bear on the study of Arabic and other Semitic languages.

My dissertation focuses on the phonetic correlates of prominence and their role in phonological systems.

Research Interests

Instructor for:

Spring 2008, Phonology 1

Fall 2007 and Winter 2008, Pedagogy of Linguistics (graduate)

Winter 2007, Language Change



TA for:

Spring 2009, Industrial Phonetics (Henton)

Winter 2009, Intro to Linguistics (Mester)

Fall 2008, Typology (Aissen)

Winter 2008, Phonetic Analysis (Padgett)

Fall 2006, Phonology 1 (Kaplan)

Spring 2006, Morphology (Hankamer)

Winter 2006, Phonology 2 (Padgett)

Summer 2005, Intro to Unix (Dost)

Spring 2005, Language Change (Mester)

Fall 2004, Phonology 1 (Padgett)

Teaching

Biconditional Constraints on the Correlates of Prominence (2008, GLOW handout)[pdf]

Arabic Impersonal Passives in OT (2008, NACAL handout)[pdf]

Avoiding Strong-Position Neutralization (2008, LSA handout)[pdf]

Can a Language be Both Iambic and Trochaic? (2007)[pdf]

Emergentism and OT: A Compromise (2007, Mid-America Linguistics Conference handout)[pdf]

The Placement of Arabic Pronominal Clitics (2007, UCSC Syntax Circle handout)[pdf]

The Placement of Arabic Pronominal Clitics (2007, full paper)[pdf]

Prosody Can Outrank Syntax (2007, WCCFL handout)[pdf]

Phoneme Split in OT (2006)[pdf]

Intra-Paradigmatic Contrast in Arabic Verbal Morphology (2007)[pdf]

[r] as Limited Default in Eastern Massachusetts English (2005)[pdf]

Fine-Grained Historical Stages in a Partial Grammar of my Idiolect of English (2005)[pdf]

Articles and Handouts

Cairene Arabic stress (Phonology 1)

Arabic (Morphology)

Old English (Language Change)

Problem Sets

"The Branding," by Ghalib Halasa

"The Death Pact," by Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad

"A Memoir of the Mongol Invasion of the Lands of Islam," by Ibn ul-Athir

Translations from Arabic

(By the way, this is not what linguists do; it's what translators do. Not that you can't be both.)

My wife Sally's webpage

Sally's TESOL blog

My brother Rob

My brother Ian's band

My dad

My mom

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Last modified Sept. 11, 2008