Working Papers

Working Papers in the Language Sciences at the University of Rochester (WPLS:UR) is an online publication of working papers from the University's interdisciplinary language sciences community.

Any student or faculty member from the University of Rochester can submit their working papers for consideration. New calls for submissions will be announced here and in our website's news section.

Previous Volumes

Explore previous volumes of our Working Papers publication below:

Spring 2024, vol. 10, no. 1

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Editors: Sreyoshi Basu, Andrew Bray, Becky Everson, and J.C. Wamsley

Fall 2022, vol. 9, no. 1

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Editors: Joyce McDonough

Proof-theoretic thematic uniqueness
by Ash Asudeh

What changes when we tune into talker-specific prosody?
by Andre ́s Buxo ́-Lugo and Chigusa Kurumada

A unified operator movement analysis for adverbial clauses and relative clauses in Swahili
by Zhendong Liu

The diphthongization observation: an analysis of the “indie voice” persona
by Sarah Smith

The long-distance ‘Taziji’ revisited: experimental evidence for inherent non-local bindings
by Yuhang Xu and Jeffrey T. Runner

 

Fall 2020, vol. 8, no. 1

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Editors: Peter Guekguezian

Investigating Effects of Emphasis on the Modeled Auditory Brainstem Response
by John Kyle Cooper and Sam Zhao

The Effects of the French Vowel Inventory on Vowel Production in Spanish Speakers
by Leonor Teles and Olivia Huey

Using Peripheral Models to Improve Responses to Speech in Computational Models of the Auditory Cortex
by Nicholas Cimaszewski and Benjamin Richardson

Syntactic-Semantic Analysis of Classifiers in Mandarin
by Jiaxing Yu

Towards an Improved Lexicon of Relational Nouns
by Elizabeth Lee

Place-names of Rochester, New York: Language, History, Politics, Culture and Identity in Rochesters Neighborhoods
by Megan Eichas

Fall 2019, vol. 7, no. 1

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Editors: Peter Guekguezian

Krauss (2005) Tonogenesis Tables: IPA Transcription
by Joyce McDonough

Memory Retrieval in Mandarin Chinese Reflexive Processing: Evidence against the Local Search Hypothesis
by Yuhang Xu and Jeffrey T. Runner

How to Use Young and Morgan's 1987 'The Navajo Language'
by Joyce McDonough

Templatic Morphology in Chukchansi Yokuts
by Peter Guekguezian

Documenting Intonational Prosody: Comparison of Three Dene/Athabaskan (ISO 639-3) Languages using Data from Different Tasks
by Joyce McDonough

Vowel Contrasts in SaySiyat (Saisiyat)
by Peter Guekguezian and Yuyi Zhou

Appendix for Krauss (2005) Tonogenesis Tables: IPA Transcription: The Tables
by Joyce McDonough

Fall 2011, vol. 6, no. 1

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Editors: Alex B. Fine

The Tsuut'ina Vocalic System
by Santiago Barreda

Morpheme Segmentation in School-aged Children
by Sara Finley & Elissa Newport

De-Maxim-Izing Quality
by Christine Gunlogson

Replicating Goddard: A contemporary airflow and egg study of Dene Su Łine
by Joyce McDonough, Benjamin Tucker, Valerie Wood, Horace Adams

A Brief Report on Voice Mismatch Effects in Verb Phrase Ellipsis and Sluicing
by Jeffrey Runner and Timothy Dozat

Acoustic Phonetic Analysis as a Means Defining the Phonemic Inventory: Evidence from the Vowel Space in Tsuut'ina
by Michelle Sims

Summer 2009, vol. 5, no. 1

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Editors: Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier and Alex B. Fine

One land, one nation, one language: An analysis of Indonesia's national language policy

by Scott Paauw

Locality restrictions on exceptions to vowel harmony
by Sara Finley

Phonetic and phonological aspects of liquid devoicing in Thai, Hungarian, and American English stop-liquid sequences
by Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier

Directionality in vowel harmony
by Sara Finley

Winter 2008, vol. 4, no. 1

Measurement of vowel nasalization by multi-dimensional acoustic analysis
by Michael A. Berger

Spring 2007, vol. 3, no. 1

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Editors: Lynsey Wolter and Jill Thorson

The role of argument structure in Arabic impoverished agreement constructions
by Charley Beller, pp. 2-25

Implicit learning and syntactic persistence: surprisal and cumulativity
by T. Florian Jaeger and Neal Snider, pp. 26-44

Rhythmic structure of music and language: an empirical investigation of American jazz masters Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton
by Joyce McDonough, Harold Danko, and Jason Zentz, pp. 45-56

Freeing possessed NPs from Binding Theory
by Jeffrey T. Runner, pp. 57-90

The scaling of utterance-initial pitch peaks in Puerto Rican Spanish: evidence for tonal preplanning
by Jill Thorson

Spring 2001, vol. 2, no. 1

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Editors: James S. Magnuson and Katherine Crosswhite

Predicting syllabicity and moraicity in Dihovo Macedonian
by Katherine Crosswhite, pp. 1-22

The double object construction at the interfaces
by Jeffrey T. Runner, pp. 23-51

The time-course of processing syntactic dependencies: Evidence from eye movements during spoken narratives
by Rachel S. Sussman and Julie C. Sedivy, pp. 52-70

On the interpretation of computational models: The case of TRACE
by James S. Magnuson, Delphine Dahan, Michael K. Tanenhaus

Fall 2000, vol. 1, no. 2

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Editors: Katherine Crosswhite and Jim Magnuson

Optimality and opposed handshapes in Taiwan Sign Language
by Jean Ann and Long Peng, pp. 173-194

How to use Young and Morgan's "The Navajo Language"
by Joyce Mary McDonough, pp. 195-214

The perception of consonants by adults and infants: Categorical or categorized?
by Bob McMurray, Michael Spivey, and Richard Aslin, pp. 215-256

The external object hypothesis and the case of object expletives
by Jeffrey T. Runner

Spring/Summer 2000, vol. 1, no. 1

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Editors: Katherine Crosswhite and Joyce McDonough

Allowable variability: A preliminary investigation of word recognition in Navajo
by Joyce McDonough and Mary Ann Willie, pp. 1-23

Comparison of intonation patterns in Mandarin and English for a particular speaker
by Katrina Schack, pp. 24-55

Simple recurrent networks and competition effects in spoken word recognition
by James S. Magnuson, Michael K. Tanenhaus, and Richard N. Aslin, pp. 56-71

Connectionist modeling for... er... linguists
by Bob McMurray, pp. 72-96

"Mismatches" of form and interpretation
by Greg Carlson, pp. 97-106

Vowel reduction in Russian: A unified account of standard, dialectal, and "dissimilative" patterns
by Katherine Margaret Crosswhite

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