Armin Mester

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2023	Bellik, Jennifer, Junko Ito, Nick Kalivoda, and Armin Mester eds. Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory: Theory and Analysis. Equinox Publishing. Advances in Optimality Theory.
2023	Bellik, Jennifer, Junko Ito, Nick Kalivoda, and Armin Mester. Chapter 1 Introduction. In Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory: Theory and Analysis. Equinox Publishing. Series Advances in Optimality Theory. pp 1-24.
2022	Kubozono, Haruo, Junko Ito, and Armin Mester eds. Prosody and Prosodic Interfaces. Oxford Studies in Phonology and Phonetics. Oxford University Press.
2022	Bellik, Jennifer, Junko Ito, Nick Kalivoda, and Armin Mester. Matching and Alignment In Prosody and Prosodic Interfaces. Oxford Studies in Phonology and Phonetics. pp. 457-480.
2021	Ito, Junko, Yoshihisa Kitagawa, and Armin Mester. Prosodic faithfulness and correspondence: Evidence from a Japanese argot. 1996 publication chosen to be reprinted in JEAL 30th Anniversary Virtual Special Issue. Journal of East Asian Linguistics.
2021	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Recursive prosody and the prosodic form of compounds. Languages 6: 65. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/languages6020065.
2020	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Match Theory and Prosodic Wellformedness Constraints. In Zhang, Hongming, and Youyong Qian, eds. Prosodic Studies. Challenges and Prospects. London and New York: Routledge. pp. 252-274.
2019	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Match as Syntax-Prosody Max/Dep: Prosodic Enclisis in English. English Linguistics 36(1): 1-28.
2019	Ito, Junko, Haruo Kubozono, Armin Mester, and Shin'ichi Tanaka. Kattobase: The Linguistic Structure of Japanese Baseball Chants, Proceedings of AMP 2018.
2019	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Pitch accent and tonal alignment in Kagoshima Japanese. The Linguistic Review 36, 1-24.
2018	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Tonal alignment and preaccentuation. Journal of Japanese Linguistics 34(2): 195-222.
2018	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Matching light elements. In: Jason Merchant, Line Mikkelsen, Deniz Rudin, and Kelsey Sasaki, eds. 2018. A reasonable way to proceed. Essays in honor of Jim McCloskey. [Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7z29n70x., 4/8/2018.] 168-190.
2017	Ito, Junko, Haruo Kubozono, and Armin Mester. A prosodic account of consonant gemination in Japanese loanwords In: Kubozono, Haruo, ed. The Phonetics and Phonology of Geminate Consonants. Oxford: OUP. 283-320.
2017	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Ancient Greek Pitch Accent: Anti-Lapse and Tonal Antepenultimacy.,In 音韻研究の新展開：窪薗晴夫教授還暦記念論文集 (New developments in Phonological Research: Festshrift in Honor of Prof. Haruo Kubozono's 60th Birthday), ed. by Tanaka, Shinichi et al. Tokyo: Kaitakusha. 2-18.
2016	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Unaccentedness in Japanese. Linguistic Inquiry. 47. 471-526.
2015	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. The perfect prosodic word in Danish. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 38(1). 5-36.
2015	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Sino-Japanese Phonology. Chapter 7 of Handbook of Japanese Phonetics and Phonology. 2015. ed. by H. Kubozono. pp. 289-312. Mouton de Gruyter Series Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics (Series editors, M. Shibatani, T. Kageyama).
2015	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Word Formation and Phonological Processes. Chapter 9 of Handbook of Japanese Phonetics and Phonology. 2015. ed. by H. Kubozono. pp. 363-395. Mouton de Gruyter Series Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics (Series editors M. Shibatani, T. Kageyama).
2013	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Prosodic Subcategories in Japanese. Lingua 124. 20-40.
	Related handout: Categories and Projections in Prosodic Structure (OCP 4, 2007, Rhodes, Greece).
2012	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Recursive prosodic phrasing in Japanese. In: Borowsky, Toni, Shigeto Kawahara, Mariko Sugahara, and Takahito Shinya, eds. 2012. Prosody Matters. Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Selkirk. Advances in Optimality Theory Series. Elsevier. 280-303. Earlier version in the Proceedings of the 18th Japanese/Korean Conference. 2010 Stanford, CA: CSLI. 147-164.
2011	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. A note on unstressability. NINJAL Project Review. 4. National Institute of Japanese Linguistics. 27-44.
	Related abstract and handout, ICPP 2011, Kyoto, Japan.
2009	Kobozono, Haruo, Junko Ito, and Armin Mester.Consonant Gemination in Japanese Loanword Phonology 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. 953-973.
2009	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. The extended prosodic word. In Kabak, Baris, and Jaent Grijzenhout, eds. Phonological Domains: Universals and Derivations. The Hague, The Netherlands: Mouton de Gruyter. 135-194.
2009	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. The onset of the prosodic word. In Parker, Steve, ed. Phonological Argumentation: Essays on Evidence and Motivation. London: Equinox. 227-260.
2009	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Lexical classes in phonology. In Miyagawa, Shigeru, and Mamoru Saito, eds. Handbook of Japanese Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 84-106.
2007	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Prosodic adjunction in Japanese compounds. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 55: Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 4. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 97-111.
2006	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Indulgentia Parentum Filiorum Pernicies: Lexical Allomorphy in Latin and Japanese. In: Bakovic, Eric, 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.
2006	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Systemic markedness and faithfulness. 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. 665-689.
2004	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Morphological contrast and merger: ranuki in Japanese. Journal of Japanese Linguistics 20. 1-18.
2003	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Japanese Morphophonemics: Markedness and Word Structure. MIT Press Linguistic Inquiry Monograph Series 41. Cambridge, Mass. book notice at www.amazon.com 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	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Weak Layering and Word Binarity. In Honma, Takeru, 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. 26-65. [Slightly revised publication of earlier unpublished working paper (Ito and Mester 1992)].
2003	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Lexical and postlexical phonology in Optimality Theory: evidence from Japanese. Linguistische Berichte. Sonderheft 11: Resolving Conflicts in Grammars. Ed. by Fanselow, Gisbert, and Caroline Féry. 183-207.
2003	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. On the sources of opacity in OT: coda processes in German. In Féry, Caroline, and Ruben van de Vijver, eds. The Syllable in Optimality Theory, Cambridge University Press. 271-303.
2002	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Positional constraints. Handout of talk presented at Linguistics and Phonetics 2002 (LP2002). Meikai University, Urayasu, Japan.
2002	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. One phonology or many? Issues in stratal faithfulness theory. In The Phonological Society of Japan, ed. Phonological Studies 5. Tokyo: Kaitakusha. 121-126.
2001	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Structure preservation and stratal opacity in German. In Lombardi, Linda, ed. Segmental Phonology in Optimality Theory, Cambridge University Press. 261-295.
2001	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Covert generalizations in Optimality Theory: the role of stratal faithfulness constraints. In The Phonology-Morphology Circle of Korea, ed. Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Phonology and Morphology. 3-33.
2001	Ito, Junko, Armin Mester, and Jaye Padgett. Alternations and distributional patterns in Japanese Phonology. Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan. 5.2. 54-60. [Revised and extended from Lexical Classes in Japanese: a Reply to Rice, in PASC.]
2000	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Weak Parallelism and Modularity: Evidence from Japanese. In: Special Research Project for the Typological Investigation of Languages and Cultures of the East and the West, Tsukuba University. 89-106.
2000	Ito, Junko and Armin Mester. Ich, der ich sechzig bin: An Agreement Puzzle, in Chung, Sandy, Jim McCloskey, and Nathan Sanders, eds. Jorge Hankamer Webfest. http://ling.ucsc.edu/Jorge/ito_mester.html.
1999	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. The structure of the phonological lexicon. In Tsujimura, Natsuko, ed. The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics. Malden, MA, and Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publishers. 62-100.
1999	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Realignment. In R. Kager, H. v.d. Hulst, and W.Zonneveld, eds. The Prosody-Morphology Interface. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 188-217.
1998	Kubozono, Haruo, Junko Ito, and Armin Mester. Nonfinality in Japanese Phonology. CD-ROM of the Proceedings of the XVIth Congrès International des Linguistes, Paris. Elsevier.
1997	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Sympathy Theory and German truncations. 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. 117-139. Also in: On'in kenkyuu [Phonological Studies], ed. by the Phonological Society of Japan. Kaitakusha, Tokyo. 1998. 51-66.
1997	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Featural Sympathy: feeding & counterfeeding interactions in Japanese. In Karvonen, Daniel, Motoko Katayama, and Rachel Walker, eds. Phonology at Santa Cruz (PASC) Vol. 5. 29-36.
1997	Ito, Junko, Haruo Kubozono, and Armin Mester. 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]. In Spoken Language Research Group, ed. Bunpô-to onsei. Speech and Grammar. Tokyo: Kurosio Publications. 147-166.
1997	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Correspondence and compositionality: The ga-gyô variation in Japanese phonology. In Roca, Iggy, ed., Constraints and Derivations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 419-462.
1996	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Stem and word in Sino-Japanese. In Otake, Takashi, and Ann Cutler, eds. Phonological Structure and Language Processing: Cross-Linguistic Studies, Speech Research Series. Vol. 12. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.13-44.
1996	Ito, Junko, Yoshihisa Kitagawa, and Armin Mester. Prosodic faithfulness and correspondence. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 5. 217-294.
1995	Kubozono, Haruo, and Armin Mester. Foot and accent: new evidence from Japanese compound accentuation. Paper presented at LSA Meeting, New Orleans.
1995	Ito, Junko, Armin Mester, and Jaye Padgett. Licensing and redundancy: underspecification in Optimality Theory. Linguistic Inquiry 26. 571-614.
1995	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. The core-periphery structure of the lexicon and constraints on reranking. In Beckman, Jill, Suzanne Urbanczyk, and Laura Walsh, eds. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics [UMOP] Vol. 18: Papers in Optimality Theory. University of Massachusetts, Amherst: GLSA. 181-209.
1995	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Japanese phonology. In Goldsmith, John, ed.,The Handbook of Phonological Theory. Blackwell. 817-838.
1994	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Reflections on CodaCond and Alignment. In Merchant, Jason, Jaye Padgett, and Rachel Walker, eds., Phonology at Santa Cruz [PASC], Linguistics Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz, Vol. 3. 27-46.
1994	Mester, Armin, and Jaye Padgett. Directional syllabification in Generalized Alignment. In Merchant, Jason, Jaye Padgett, and Rachel Walker, eds. Phonology at Santa Cruz [PASC] Vol. 3. 79-85.
1994	Mester, Armin. The quantitative trochee in Latin, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 12. 1-61.
1993	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Licensed segments and safe paths. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 38. 197-213.
1992	Mester, Armin. Morpheme structure constraints. Topic article in International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Vol. 3, ed. by W. Bright. Oxford University Press. 3-4.
1992	Mester, Armin. Some remarks on Tongan stress. Ms., UC Santa Cruz.
1992	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Weak Layering and Word Binarity. Linguistic Research Center, LRC-92-09, University of California, Santa Cruz. [A slightly revised version appeared in Festschrift for Shosuke Haraguchi, 2003.]
1990	Mester, Armin. Patterns of truncation, Linguistic Inquiry 21.3. 478-485.
1989	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. Feature predictability and feature specification. Language 65. 258-293.
1988	Grimshaw, Jane, and Armin Mester. Light verbs and theta-marking. Linguistic Inquiry 19.2. 205-232.
1988	Mester, Armin. Studies in Tier Structure. Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series. Garland, New York. [UMass dissertation, 1986.]
1988	Mester, Armin. Dependent tier ordering and the OCP. In v.d. Hulst, Harry, and Norval Smith, eds. Features, Segmental Structure, and Harmony Processes. Dordrecht: Foris. 127-144.
1986	Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester. The phonology of voicing in Japanese: theoretical consequences for morphological accessibility. Linguistic Inquiry 17.1. 49-73.
1985	Mester, Armin. Japanese relatives and the status of empty operators. Descriptive and Applied Linguistics 18. 181-191.
1985	Grimshaw, Jane, and Armin Mester. Complex verb formation in Eskimo. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 3. 1-19.
1984	Borowsky, Toni, Junko Ito, and Armin Mester. On the formal representation of ambisyllabicity: evidence from Danish. In Proceedings of NELS 14. University of Massachusetts, Amherst: GLSA. 34-48.
1983	Borowsky, Toni, and Armin Mester. Aspiration to roots: remarks on the Sanskrit diaspirates. In Proceedings of CLS 19. 52-63.
1980	Mester, Armin. Wie lassen sich syntaktische Mehrdeutigkeiten rechtfertigen? In Clément, Danièle, ed. Empirische rechtfertigung von syntaxen. Bonn: Bouvier Verlag.107-125.

Armin Mester

Research Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz

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