[ˈpè̝tə́ɾ ˈjúɾɡə̀ts]
Meertens InstitutePostbus 94264
1090 GG Amsterdam
About
I am a researcher at the Meertens Institute. My research interests fall within theoretical phonology. I am particularly interested in feature theory, assimilation, loanwords, tone, and Slavic languages.
You can take a look at my Publications or my CV.
The most convenient way to reach me is by email at myname.mysurname@meertens.knaw.nl
Next
- I am an invited speaker at the 7th North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC7) in Montreal [May 5].
- I will present Morphological Locality at this year's Manchester Phonology Meeting [May 24].
- I have been awarded a Rubicon grant by The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). Starting this fall, I will be working on the project The Phonology of Slovenian at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Read about it here, here, here, and here.
Recent
- On January 21, 2012, I presented Two types of parasitic assimilation at the 9th Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP9) in Berlin.
- On December 8, 2011, I presented The interactions of tone and vowel quality at the Swarthmore Linguistics Department.
- I taught two courses (Intro to OT and Assimilation) at the 2011 EGG Summer School. The handouts are available here.
- My dissertation Feature Spreading 2.0: A Unified Theory of Assimilation is now available on Lingbuzz.
- On May 23, 2011, I gave a talk at the University of Leipzig Linguistics Institute.
- On May 20, 2011, I presented Edgemost Faithfulness at the 19th Manchester Phonology Meeting. [handout] [poster]
- On April 15, 2011, I gave a colloquium talk at the Rutgers Linguistics Department.
- On March 10, 2011, I presented Locality in Parasitic Assimilation at the CUNY Graduate Center.
- On January 13, 2011, I defended my dissertation Feature Spreading 2.0: A Unified Theory of Assimilation. I am done!
- My squib Disjunctive Lexical Stratification appeared in the Winter 2010 issue of Linguistic Inquiry.
Teaching
- This semester I am co-teaching Topics in Linguistics 3 at Leiden University (with Marc van Oostendorp, Clara Levelt, Kathrin Linke, and Marijn van 't Veer). More information is available on Blackboard.
- I have previously taught at Rutgers, University of Tromsø (Norway), University of Nova Gorica (Slovenia), and Indiana University Bloomington. For details, see my CV.
Pages
You can take a look at my Publications page or my CV.