Kevin Russell

Research interests:

• laboratory phonology, morphology, the phonology-phonetics interface; Guaraní, American Sign Language; Cree; computational linguistics

Courses (fall 2017):

• General Phonetics (LING 1380) — 12:30 to 1:20 MWF (215 Tier building)
• Field Methods (LING 3400/7590 T02) — 3:30 to 4:45 MW (136 Isbister building)

Office hours (fall 2017):

• TBA
• and by appointment.

Some work in progress:

• 2017: a conference handout on the weirdities of Guaraní la (from the Prairie Workshop on Language and Linguistics) PDF file (80k)

Some papers:

• 2014: “The phonology of reduplication in Paraguayan Guaraní”; by Khashayar Hamidzadeh and Kevin Russell; Proceedings of WSCLA 19; UBC Working Papers in Linguistics; PDF file (174 k).
   
• 2013: “How phonological reductions sometimes help the listener”, by Holger Mitterer and Kevin Russell, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 39 (3), pages 977-984. doi: 10.1037/a0029196; or final draft of ms
   
• 2011: “ASL sign lowering as undershoot”, by Kevin Russell, Erin Wilkinson, and Terry Janzen, Laboratory Phonology 2 (2), pages 403-422, official version, doi:labphon.2011.015, or PDF file of ms (1.4 M)
   
• 2008: “Sandhi in Plains Cree”, Journal of Phonetics — official version or PDF file of ms (200 k).
   
• 2004: “Contrastive focus reduplication in English (the salad-salad paper)”, by Jila Ghomeshi, Ray Jackendoff, Nicole Rosen, and some guy named Russell.
  Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 22 (2), pages 307-357.
  (Not really accessible anymore, unless your library has a subscription.)
  The corpus of reduplication examples mentioned in the paper can be found here.
   
• 1999: MOT: Sketch of an Optimality Theoretic Approach to Morphology
  draft of a monograph. PDF file (616k).

Some ancient papers:

• 1999: “What’s with all these long words anyway?”; MIT Occasional Papers in Linguistics 17. [proceedings of the first Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas] PDF file (770k)
• 1993: A constraint-based approach to phonology and morphology; my dissertation, University of Southern California (advisor: Jean-Roger Vergnaud). PDF file (3.1M)
• 1993: “No spreading in Chumash sibilant harmony”; Proceedings of the Canadian Linguistic Association. PDF file (848k)
• 1992: “Palatalization and epenthesis in Plains Cree”; Proceedings of the Canadian Linguistics Association. PDF file (979k)
• 1991: “Obviation as discourse structure in a Swampy Cree âcimowin”; William Cowan, ed., Papers of the Twenty-second Algonquian Conference, 320-335. Ottawa: Carleton University Press. PDF file (975k)

• General Phonetics (and the old, pathetic version -- don't go there)
• For students in other courses: Use the Desire2Learn site (or whatever they've rebranded it as this week).