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.

Individual papers are published online in PDF format. Currently available volumes of WPLS are listed below. Complete volumes of URWPLS can be obtained from MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.

The series editor is Joyce McDonough.

Available Volumes of Working Papers in Language Sciences

Fall 2020, vol. 8, no. 1

Editor: Peter Guekguezian

  • Papers by John Kyle Cooper and Sam Zhao; Leonor Teles and Olivia Huey; Nicholas Cimaszewski and Benjamin Richardson; Jiaxing Yu; Elizabeth Lee; Megan Eichas

Fall 2019, vol. 7, no. 1

Editor: Peter Guekguezian

  • Papers by Peter Guekguezian; Peter Guekguezian and Yuyi Zhou; Joyce McDonough; Yuhang Xu and Jeffrey T. Runner

Fall 2011, vol. 6, no. 1

Editor: Alex B. Fine

  • Papers by Santiago Barreda; Sara Finley and Elissa Newport; Christine Gunlogson; Jeff Runner and Timothy Dozat; Michelle Sims

Summer 2009, vol. 5, no. 1

Editors: Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier and Alex B. Fine

  • Papers by Scott Paauw; Sara Finley; and Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier

Winter 2008, vol. 4, no. 1

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

Spring 2007, vol. 3, no. 1

Editors: Lynsey Wolter and Jill Thorson

  • Papers by Charley Beller; T. Florian Jaeger and Neal Snider; Joyce McDonough, Harold Danko, and Jason Zentz; Jeffrey T. Runner; and Jill Thorson

Spring 2001, vol. 2, no. 1

Editors: Katherine Crosswhite and James S. Magnuson

  • Papers by Katherine M. Crosswhite; Jeffrey T. Runner; Rachel S. Sussman and Julie C. Sedivy; and James S. Magnuson, Delphine Dahan and Michael K. Tanenhaus

Fall 2000, vol. 1, no. 2

Editors: Katherine Crosswhite and Jim Magnuson

  • Papers by Jean Ann and Long Peng; Joyce McDonough; Bob McMurray, Michael Spivey and Richard Aslin; and Jeffrey T. Runner

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

Editors: Katherine Crosswhite and Joyce McDonough

  • Papers by Joyce McDonough and Mary Willie; Katrina Schack; James S. Magnuson, Michael K. Tanenhaus and Richard N. Aslin; Bob McMurray; Greg Carlson; and Katherine M. Crosswhite