Jeremy O'Brien

University of California, Santa Cruz
PhD Student, Dept. of Linguistics

email: jpobrien AT ucsc DOT edu

snailmail:
Jeremy O'Brien
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Cruz
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz CA 95064

Phonology Papers:

Perception and English t-glottalization. Handout for Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC), 2009.
Italian Troncamento: the syntax-prosody interface and eurythmic effects (2007)
Lexical Conservatism in Irish Prepositions (2007)
Sonority Sequencing, Phonological Scales, and Russian Word Edges (2006)
Consonants in Cantonese Loanword Adaptation (2006), my Honors BA paper. It's a descriptive look at a database of Cantonese loanwords, comparing the data from our source to other people's work.
Foreign Consonants in Hindi (2006).

Morphosyntax:

Restrictions on English Possessors: An Extension of Distributed Morphology (2009). Syntax Qualifying Paper, UCSC.
Handout for Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC), 2008 on the same topic.
Learning Inflectional Classes with John Goldsmith (2007). Language Learning and Development 24(4): 219-250.

Former Research Projects:

Chicago Language Modeling Lab (Research in 2006)
The Erculator for Optimality Theory (Currently the primary project for CLML)
Dynamic Computational Networks (Summer research 2005)
Linguistica (Summer research 2004, 2005)

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