Abby Kaplan - Curriculum Vitae

Education

2010 (Anticipated) Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz

2007 M.A. in Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Syntactic sensitivity of movement, ellipsis, and scope: Evidence from discontinuous coordination

2005 B.A. with Highest Honors in Linguistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Spring 2004 Semester abroad at Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen

Publications and Papers

Publications

In revision Perceptual pressures on revision

In revision Asymmetrical coordination behaves differently in clauses and DPs

In revision Lexical sensitivity to phonetic and phonological pressures. Origins of Sound Patterns: Approaches to Phonologization, Alan C. L. Yu, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (pdf)

2008 The proper role of movement and ellipsis in discontinuous coordination. Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Charles B. Chang and Hannah J. Haynie, eds. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 297-305. (Cascadilla)

2007 If *NT and *ND got in a fight, who would win? Ranking paradoxes and English postnasal stop deletion. Phonology at Santa Cruz, Vol. 7, Aaron F. Kaplan and David Teeple, eds. Santa Cruz, CA: Linguistics Research Center. 25-35. (pdf) (LRC link)

Papers

2009 A comparison of three methods for calculating confidence intervals around d-prime Ms., UCSC, June 2009. (pdf)

2008 (Unpublished) Perceptual, articulatory, and systemic influences on lenition. Qualifying exam, UCSC, October 2008. (pdf)

2008 (Unpublished) Markedness and phonetic grounding in nasal-stop clusters. Qualifying paper, UCSC, February 2008. (pdf)

2007 (Unpublished) Syntactic sensitivity of movement, ellipsis, and scope: Evidence from discontinuous coordination. Qualifying paper, UCSC, June 2007. (pdf)

2007 (Unpublished) Discontinuous coordinations in the Treebank corpus: Unbalanced coordinations and high/low scope. Ms., UCSC, April 2007. (pdf)

2005 (Unpublished) Interpreting and generating formal grammars: A study of HPSG phonology. Undergraduate honors thesis, UNC-CH. (pdf)

Presentations

Invited Presentations

February 2009 Perceptual and systemic pressures on lenition. Phonology seminar, UCLA (handout)

November 2008 Perceptual, articulatory, and systemic influences on lenition. Phorum, University of California, Berkeley (handout)

November 2006 English postnasal stop deletion: *NT vs. *ND. Phorum, University of California, Berkeley (handout)

Conference Presentations

January 2010 How much homophony is normal? CUNY Conference on the Word in Phonology

January 2010 Articulatory reduction in intoxicated speech. LSA Annual Meeting, Baltimore

November 2009 Articulatory and perceptual similarity in intervocalic lenition. North East Linguistic Society Workshop on Phonological Similarity, MIT (handout)

May 2009 Effort reduction in intoxicated speech. UCSC 5th Annual Graduate Research Symposium (poster)

January 2009 Perceptual pressures on lenition. LSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco (handout)

May 2008 What factors affect sound patterns in language? UCSC 4th Annual Graduate Research Symposium (poster) (newspaper article)

May 2008 Perceptual and articulatory influences on phonological alternations. TREND, UCSC (handout)

April 2008 Lexical sensitivity to phonetic and phonological pressures. Symposium on Phonologization, University of Chicago (handout)

March 2008 Perceptual and articulatory influences on phonological alternations. Linguistics at Santa Cruz, UCSC (handout)

January 2008 What the lexicon knows about phonology. Old World Conference in Phonology 5 (handout)

May 2007 An improved model of either...or... constructions. UCSC 3rd Annual Graduate Research Symposium (handout)

May 2007 *ND#, Not *ND: Evidence from English. ExpOT, U-Mich, Ann Arbor (handout)

April 2007 The proper role of movement and ellipsis in discontinuous coordination. WCCFL 26, UC Berkeley (handout)

March 2007 The proper role of movement and ellipsis in discontinuous coordination. Linguistics at Santa Cruz, UCSC (handout)

April 2005 HPSG phonology: Finding principled distinctions between equivalent descriptions. Sixth Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research at UNC-CH

April 2005 Finding principled distinctions between equivalent descriptions. UNC-CH Linguistics Spring Colloquium

May 2001 Why do you think I chose this project? Ambiguity in wh-questions. North Carolina Schoool of Science and Mathematics Annual Research Symposium

Teaching

Instructor

Winter 2009 Instructor, Morphology (LING 105)

Teaching Assistant

Spring 2009 Teaching Assistant, Syntactic Structures (LING 55)

Fall 2008 Teaching Assistant, Phonetic Analysis (LING 151)

Fall 2007 Teaching Assistant, Phonology I (LING 101)

Winter 2007 Teaching Assistant, Language Change (LING 140)

Professional Service

2005- Graduate Student Speaker, Humanities in the Schools (UCSC program that sends graduate students to present topics of interest at local secondary schools)

2005-2006 SLUG Pubs (Publisher of UCSC Linguistics department dissertations)

2002-2005 Organizer of volunteer tutoring program for students in introductory linguistics courses at UNC-CH

2002-2005 Treasurer, Underling (UNC-CH undergraduate linguistics club)

Employment

2007 Graduate Student Researcher, UCSC

2006 Instructor and Tutor (GRE), Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions

2002-2005 Research Assistant, Language, Cognition, and Brain Research Group, Department of Psychology, UNC-CH

Honors, Awards, and Memberships

2005-2010 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

2007 Best Presentation in Division, UCSC 4th Annual Graduate Research Symposium

2007 LSA Linguistic Institute Fellowship

2005-2006 UCSC Regents Fellowship