Armin Mester
Professor of Linguistics
UC Santa Cruz
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| 2010 | Recursive prosodic phrasing in Japanese [with Junko Ito]. In the Proceedings of the 18th Japanese/Korean Conference. Stanford, CA: CSLI, pp. 147-164. pdf ms. |
| 2009 | The extended prosodic word [with Junko Ito]. In Kabak, Baris, and Jaent Grijzenhout, eds., Phonological Domains: Universals and Derivations. The Hague, The Netherlands: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 135-194. pdf ms. |
| 2009 | "Consonant Gemination in Japanese Loanword Phonology" [with Haruo Kobozono and Junko Ito]. In The Linguistic Society of Korea, ed., Current Issues in Unity and Diversity of Languages. Collection of Papers Selected from the 18th International Congress of Linguists [CIL 18]. Dongam Publishing Co., Republic of Korea, pp. 953-973. pdf ms. |
| 2009 | The onset of the prosodic word [with Junko Ito]. In Parker, Steve, ed. Phonological Argumentation: Essays on Evidence and Motivation. London: Equinox, pp. 227-260. pdf ms. |
| 2009 | "Lexical classes in phonology" [with Junko Ito]. In Handbook of Japanese Linguistics, eds. Shigeru Miyagawa and Mamoru Saito. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 84-106. pdf ms. |
| 2007 | "Prosodic adjunction in Japanese compounds" [with Junko Ito]. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 55: Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 4. Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 97-111. pdf ms. |
| 2006 | "Indulgentia Parentum Filiorum Pernicies: Lexical Allomorphy in Latin and Japanese." In: Eric Bakovic, Junko Ito, and John McCarthy, eds. 2006. Wondering at the Natural Fecundity of Things: Essays in Honor of Alan Prince. BookSurge Publishing, pp. 185-194. eScholarship Depository of the California Digital Library. [http://repositories.cdlib.org/lrc/prince/9] |
2006 |
"Systemic markedness and faithfulness" [with J. Ito].In J. Cihlar, A. Franklin, D. Kaiser and I. Kimbara, eds. Proceedings of the 39th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. Chicago, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago, pp. 665-689. pdf ms. |
2004 |
"Morphological contrast and merger: ranuki in Japanese" [with J. Ito]. Journal of Japanese Linguistics 20. 1-18. pdf ms . |
2003 |
Japanese Morphophonemics: Markedness and Word Structure [with J. Ito]. MIT Press Linguistic Inquiry Monograph Series 41. Cambridge, Mass. book
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Related manuscripts and handouts: 1996 Rendaku 1: Constraint Conjunction and the OCP ROA handout 1998 Markedness and Word Structure: OCP Effects in Japanese ROA manuscript |
| 2003 | Weak Layering and Word Binarity [with Junko Ito]. In Takeru Honma, Masao Okazaki, Toshiyuki Tabata and Shin-ichi Tanaka (eds.) A New Century of Phonology and Phonological Theory. A Festschrift for Professor Shosuke Haraguchi on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday, pp. 26-65. [Slightly revised publication of earlier unpublished working paper (Ito and Mester 1992)]. |
2003 |
"Lexical and postlexical phonology in Optimality Theory: evidence from Japanese" [with J. Ito]. Linguistische Berichte. Sonderheft 11: Resolving Conflicts in Grammars. Ed. by Gisbert Fanselow and Caroline Féry. 183-207. pdf version |
2003 |
"On the sources of opacity in OT: coda processes in German" [with J. Ito]. In Caroline Féry and Ruben van de Vijver (eds.), The Syllable in Optimality Theory, Cambridge University Press. 271-303. ROA version |
2002 |
"One phonology or many? Issues in stratal faithfulness theory" [with J. Ito]. In The Phonological Society of Japan, ed. Phonological Studies 5. Tokyo: Kaitakusha. 121-126. pdf version |
2001 |
"Structure preservation and stratal opacity in German" [with J. Ito]. In Linda Lombardi (ed.), Segmental Phonology in Optimality Theory, Cambridge University Press, pp. 261-295. pdf version |
2001 |
"Covert generalizations in Optimality Theory: the role of stratal faithfulness constraints" [with J. Ito]. In The Phonology-Morphology Circle of Korea, ed., Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Phonology and Morphology. pp. 3-33. pdf version |
2001 |
"Alternations and distributional patterns in Japanese Phonology " [with J. Ito and J. Padgett]. Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan, pp.54-60. [Revised and extended from "Lexical Classes in Japanese: a Reply to Rice", in PASC: PASC version on California Digital Library] |
1999 |
"The structure of the phonological lexicon" [with J. Ito]. In Tsujimura, Natsuko (ed.) The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics, Blackwell Publishers, Malden, MA, and Oxford, U.K. 62-100. ROA version |
1999 |
"Realignment" [with J. Ito]. In R. Kager, H. v.d. Hulst, and W.Zonneveld, (eds.). The Prosody-Morphology Interface. Cambridge UniversityPress, Cambridge, U.K. 188-217. pdf version |
1998 |
"Nonfinality in Japanese Phonology" [with H. Kubozono and J. Ito]. CD-ROM of the Proceedings of the XVIth Congrès International des Linguistes, Paris. Elsevier. |
1997 |
"Sympathy Theory and German truncations" [with J. Ito], in Miglio, Viola and Bruce Morén (eds.), University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 5. Selected phonology papers from Hopkins Optimality Theory Workshop 1997/University of Maryland Mayfest 1997, pp. 117-139. Also in: On'in kenkyuu [Phonological Studies], ed. by the Phonological Society of Japan. Kaitakusha, Tokyo. 1998, pp. 51-66. ROA version |
1997 |
"Featural Sympathy: feeding & counterfeeding interactions in Japanese" [with J. Ito], in Daniel Karvonen, Motoko Katayama, and Rachel Walker (eds.), Phonology at Santa Cruz (PASC) Vol. 5, pp. 29-36. |
1997 |
"On'inkôzô-kara mita go-to ku-no kyôkai: fukugô-meishi akusento-no bunseki" [The word/phrase boundary from the perspective of phonological structure: the analysis of nominal compound accent] [with H. Kubozono and J. Ito], in Bunpô-to onsei. Speech and Grammar. Edited by the Spoken Language Research Group. Kurosio Publications, Tokyo, pp. 147-166. |
1997 |
"Correspondence and compositionality: The ga-gyô variation in Japanese phonology" [with J. Ito], in I. Roca (ed.), Constraints and Derivations, Oxford University Press, pp. 419-462. ROA version |
1996 |
"Stem and word in Sino-Japanese" [with J. Ito], in Takashi Otake and Ann Cutler (eds.), Phonological Structure and Language Processing: Cross-Linguistic Studies, Speech Research Series, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, Vol. 12, pp. 13-44. |
1996 |
"Prosodic faithfulness and correspondence" [with J. Ito and Y. Kitagawa], Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Vol. 5, pp. 217-294. ROA version |
1995 |
"Licensing and redundancy: underspecification in Optimality Theory" [with J. Ito and J. Padgett], Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 26, pp. 571-614. ROA version. |
1995 |
"The core-periphery structure of the lexicon and constraints on reranking" [with J. Ito], in Jill Beckman, Suzanne Urbanczyk, and Laura Walsh (eds.), University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics [UMOP] Vol. 18: Papers in Optimality Theory. GLSA, Amherst, pp. 181-209. pdf-version. |
1995 |
"Japanese phonology" [with J. Ito], in The Handbook of Phonological Theory, John Goldsmith (ed.), Blackwell, pp. 817-838. pdf version. |
1994 |
"Reflections on CodaCond and Alignment" [with J. Ito], in Jason Merchant, Jaye Padgett, and Rachel Walker (eds.), Phonology at Santa Cruz [PASC]], Linguistics Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz, Vol. 3, pp. 27-46. ROA version |
1994 |
"Directional syllabification in Generalized Alignment" [with J. Padgett], in Jason Merchant, Jaye Padgett, and Rachel Walker (eds.), Phonology at Santa Cruz [PASC] Vol. 3, pp. 79-85. pdf version. |
1994 |
"The quantitative trochee in Latin," Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Vol. 12, 1-61. pdf file. |
1993 |
"Licensed segments and safe paths" [with J. Ito], Canadian Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 38, 197-213. pdf file. |
1992 |
"Morpheme structure constraints", topic article in International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, by W. Bright, Oxford University Press, Vol. 3, pp. 3-4. |
1992 |
"Weak Layering and Word Binarity" [with J. Ito], Linguistic Research Center, LRC-92-09, University of California, Santa Cruz. [A slightly revised version appeared in Festschrift for Shosuke Haraguchi, 2003] |
1990 |
"Patterns of truncation," Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 21.3, 478-485. pdf file. |
1989 |
"Feature predictability and feature specification" [with J. Ito], Language, Vol. 65, pp. 258-293. pdf file. |
1988 |
"Light verbs and theta-marking" [with J. Grimshaw], Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 19.2, pp. 205-232. pdf file. |
1988 |
Studies in Tier Structure. Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series. Garland, New York. [UMass dissertation, 1986.] |
1988 |
"Dependent tier ordering and the OCP", in v.d. Hulst and Smith (eds.), Features, Segmental Structure, and Harmony Processes, Foris, Dordrecht, pp. 127-144. |
1986 |
"The phonology of voicing in Japanese: theoretical consequences for morphological accessibility" [with J. Ito], Linguistic Inquiry,Vol. 17.1, 49-73. pdf file. |
1985 |
"Japanese relatives and the status of empty operators," Descriptive and Applied Linguistics, Vol. 18, pp. 181-191. |
1985 |
"Complex verb formation in Eskimo" [with J. Grimshaw], Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Vol. 3, pp. 1-19. pdf file. |
1984 |
"On the formal representation of ambisyllabicity: evidence from Danish" [with T. Borowsky and J. Ito], Proceedings of NELS, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Vol. 14, pp. 34-48. |
1983 |
"Aspiration to roots: remarks on the Sanskrit diaspirates" [with T. Borowsky], Proceedings of CLS, Vol. 19, pp. 52-63. |
