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Anne Pycha IGERT
Post-Doctoral Fellow Institute for Research in Cognitive Science pycha
at sas dot upenn dot edu Affiliations Psycholinguistics Lab
of Delphine Dahan, University of Pennsylvania Phonetics Lab of John
Kingston, University of Massachusetts Education Ph.D
in Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 2008 Professional
interests: Production,
perception, and cross-linguistic patterning of spoken words. |
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Available in PDF format here (updated September 2009)
Research
motivation
Human language
employs categorical representations as well as gradient details. The dilemma
for researchers lies in determining, for a particular linguistic behavior,
whether it is best characterized as categorical or gradient, and thus whether
its source lies in higher-order cognition or lower-level physical events. This
problem takes on a special form in the study of word structures, where many
linguistic behaviors that are arguably categorical (therefore morphological or
phonological) closely resemble those which are arguably gradient (therefore
phonetic), which suggests that categorical processes are merely derivative or
emergent versions of their gradient counterparts. My research addresses this
problem by combining theoretical and experimental techniques. As a theoretical
linguist, I analyze in-depth data from specific languages and develop
generalizations based upon cross-linguistic typologies. As an experimental
psychologist, I design studies to collect behavioral data, such as eye
movements and discrimination judgments, and interpret the results using
statistics. I take an empirical stance, not a dogmatic one, toward the diverse
and complex outcomes produced by this combination of techniques. Nevertheless,
I advance the general argument that categorical representations in word
structures bear unique signatures which crucially distinguish them from their gradient
counterparts. That is, morphology, phonology, and phonetics – despite
their resemblances – form
three independent domains of human language.
Peer-reviewed
publications
Pycha,
A. (To appear, 2010). A test case for the phonetics-phonology interface:
Gemination restrictions in Hungarian. Phonology 27: 2 (pre-publication
version)
Pycha, A. (2009). Lengthened
affricates as a test case for the phonetics-phonology interface. Journal of the
International Phonetic Association 39(1):1-31. (PDF)
Caballero,
G., M.J. Houser, N. Marcus, T. McFarland, A. Pycha, M. Toosarvandani, and J.
Nichols. (2008). Nonsyntactic ordering effects in noun incorporation. Linguistic
Typology 12(3): 383-422. (PDF)
Pycha, A., Inkelas, S., &
Sprouse, R. (2007). Morphophonemics
and the lexicon: a case study from Turkish. In M.J. Solé, P. Beddor, & M. Ohala (eds.) Experimental
Approaches to Phonology (pp 369-385). Oxford University Press. (pre-publication version)
Additional
publications
Pycha, A. (2008). Morpheme strength relationships in Hupa and beyond.
In S. Tuttle (ed.) Working Papers in Athabaskan Languages, No. 7 (pp. 107-132). Fairbanks:
Alaska Native Languages Center.
Pycha, A. (2008). Partial blocking. Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistic
Society 41, Vol. 1 (2005) (pp 415-430) Chicago: University of Chicago.
Pycha, A. (2007). Phonetic vs.
phonological lengthening in affricates. Proceedings of the 16th International
Congress of Phonetic Sciences,1757-1760. (peer-reviewed conference paper)
Pycha, A. (2006). A duration-based solution to the problem of stress
realization in Turkish. UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report, 141-151.
Pycha, A., Shin, E., &
Shosted, R. (2006). Directionality
of assimilation in consonant clusters: An experimental approach. UC Berkeley
Phonology Lab Annual Report, 152-166.
Pycha, A., Nowak, P., Shin, E.,
& Shosted, R. (2003). Phonological
rule-learning and its implications for a theory of vowel harmony. In G.
Garding & M. Tsujimura (eds.).
Proceedings of
the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 22. (pp 423-435)
Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Dissertation: Morphological
Sources of Phonological Length
Linguistics,
UC Berkeley, 2008. Committee members: Professors Sharon Inkelas, Keith Johnson,
Larry Hyman, and Johanna Nichols