The River Liffy, Dublin
I am a first-year grad student working on my PhD in Linguistics at Rutgers. I'm primarily interested in phonology (and its interfaces with phonetics and morphology), signed languages, and Optimality Theory. I have also done some work on a null nominal construction in Spanish.
If you want to know more about me, my CV [pdf] might be of interest.
Current Work
I am currently musing on the following projects. For some of my other work, see the research page.
What leaves the phonological module?
Does the output of phonology contain morphological structure? Information about the phonological input? I am investigating these question with phonetic analysis as well as theoretical evidence.
- Phonetic Opacity: Flapping and Vowel Length in American English
Handout from RULing III [PDF] - Does Phonological Output Contain Morphological Structure?
Handout from HUMDRUM 2008 [PDF]
Phonetics/phonology interface in signed languages
Recently, much attention has been paid to the phonetics/phonology interface. This attention, however, has centered on spoken languages. Signed languages clearly have different articulatory mechanisms than spoken ones, and I am interested in what these differences suggest for the interface.
Phonologically conditioned suppletion
Allomorphy sometimes occurs in regular phonological contexts, but without plausible phonological explanatons for the forms of each allomorph. I am examining ways of modeling this form of suppletion in OT.
Contact Information
| Email: | < abraver /æt/ rutgers.edu > |
| Mail: |
Aaron Braver Linguistics Department Rutgers University 18 Seminary Place New Brunswick, NJ 08901 |
| IM: | AIM/Skype/Google: AaronBraver |
Personal Interests
I like computers. There, I said it. Stop laughing - computers are cool now. I also enjoy SciFi, especially Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, and Torchwood.