David Eddington

Works in progress or forthcoming

• Statistics for linguists: A step-by-step guide for novices.

• An Experimental Approach to Ambisyllabicity in English, (coauthored with Dirk Elzinga). To appear in Topics in Linguistics.

• The Influence of Experimental Method on English Syllabification (coauthored with Ross J. Cairns).

 

 

Selected Publications

• Syllabification of American English: Evidence from a Large-scale Experiment Part I, (coauthored with Rebecca Treiman and Dirk Elzinga). Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 20. 45-67, 2013.

• Syllabification of American English: Evidence from a Large-scale Experiment Part II, (coauthored with Rebecca Treiman and Dirk Elzinga). Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 20, 75-93, 2013.

• Where are the Mountains in Utah?, (coauthored with Matthew Savage). American Speech 87. 336-349, 2012.

• Morphophonological Alternations. Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics, edited by José Ignacio Hualde, Antxon Olarrea, and Erin O'Rourke, 193-208. Cambridge, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

• Variation in the Use of Deber and Deber de in Written and Oral Materials from Spain and Latin America, (coauthored with Carmen Silva Corvalán). Spanish in Context 8. 257-271, 2011.

• What are the contextual variants of /b d g/ in colloquial Spanish? Probus 23. 1-19, 2011.

• Argument Constructions and Language Processing: Evidence from a Priming Experiment and Pedagogical Implications, (coauthored with Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza). Fostering Language Teaching Efficiency Through Cognitive Linguistics, Edited by Sabine de Knop, Frank Boers, and Antoon de Rycher, 213-238.Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2010.

• American English has Got a Lot of Glottal Stops, (coauthored with Caitlin Channer), American Speech, 85. 338-351, 2010.

• A Computational Analysis of Navajo Verb Stems, (coauthored with Jordan Lachler), Experimental and Empirical Methods in Cognitive/Functional Research, edited by Sally Rice and John Newman, 143-161. Stanford, CA: CSLI, 2010.

• A Comparison of Two Tools for Analyzing Linguistic Data: Logistic Regression and Decision Trees, Italian Journal of Linguistics 22. 265-286, 2010.

• T-glottalization in American English, (coauthored with Michael Taylor), American Speech 84. 298-314, 2009.

• Quantitative and Experimental Linguistics, editor. Munchen: Lincom, 2009.

• Dialect recognition: The Effects of Region of Origin and Amount of Experience, (coauthored with Wendy Baker and Lyndsey Nay), American Speech, 2009, 84.48-71.

• Linguistic Processing is Exemplar-based, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 2.420-433, 2009.

• Spanish Verbal Inflection: A Single- or Dual-route System?, Linguistics 47.173-199, 2009.

• Linguistics and the Scientific Method, Southwest Journal of Linguistics 27.1-16, 2008.

• The Phonetic Context of Flapping in American English: Quantitative Evidence, (coauthored with Dirk Elzinga), Language and Speech 51.245-266, 2008.

• El Abundante Agua Fria: Hermaphroditic Spanish Nouns, (coauthored with José Ignacio Hualde), Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 1.5-31, 2008.

• Flapping and Other Variants of /t/ in American English: Allophonic Distribution without Constraints, Rules, or Abstractions, Cognitive Linguistics 18.23-46, 2007.

• Analogical Modeling: An Update, (coauthored with Deryle Lonsdale), Proceedings of the European Summer School on Logic, Language, and Information, 2007.

• Paradigm Uniformity and Analogy: The Capitalistic versus Militaristic Debate, International Journal of English Studies 6.1-18, 2006..

• A Usage-based Approach to Spanish Verbs of Becoming, (coauthored with Joan Bybee), Language 82.323-354, 2006.

• Look Ma, No Rules: Applying Skousen's Analogical Approach to Spanish Nominals in -ion, In Phonology, Morphology, and the Empirical Imperative: Papers in Honour of Bruce L. Derwing, ed. By Grace E. Wieve et al., 2006, 371-407. Taipei City, Crane Publishing.

• Negative Prestige and Sound Change: A Sociolinguistic Study of the Assibilation of /r/ in Piripiri Portuguese, (coauthored with Michael Taylor.) Selected Proceedings of the 9th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium edited by Nuria Sagarra and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, 320-325. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla, 2006.

• Selected Proceedings of the 7th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, editor. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla, 2005.

• Selected Proceedings of the 6th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages, editor. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla, 2005.

• Spanish Phonology and Morphology: Experimental and Quantitative Perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2004.

  • Review of Spanish Phonology and Morphology: Experimental and Quantitative Perspectives, Linguist List 16.1457 by Matthew Carlson, 2005.

  • Review of Spanish Phonology and Morphology: Experimental and Quantitative Perspectives, Lingua 117.1821-1825 by Frank Nuessel, 2007.

  • Review of Spanish Phonology and Morphology: Experimental and Quantitative Perspectives, Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana 4.202-205 Gema Mazón Gutiérrez, 2006.

  • Review of Spanish Phonology and Morphology: Experimental and Quantitative Perspectives, Language 83.435-438, by José Ignacio Hualde.

  • Review of Spanish Phonology and Morphology: Experimental and Quantitative Perspectives, Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 14. 95-99, 2007 by Michael Cysouw.

• A Computational Approach to Resolving Certain Issues in Spanish Stress Placement, Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology, ed. by Timothy Face, 2004, 95-115. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• Issues in modeling language processing analogically, Lingua, 2003, 114.849-871.

• Are plurals derived or stored? (Coauthored with Patricia Lestrade), Structure, meaning, and acquisition in Spanish, ed. by James. F. Lee, Kimberly L. Geeslin, and J. Clancy Clements, 2002, 269-284. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

• Spanish gender assignment in an analogical framework, Journal of Quantitative Lingusitics, 2002, 9.49-75.

• A Comparison of two Analogical Models: Tilburg Memory-based Learner versus Analogical Modeling, In Analogical Modeling ed. By Royal Skousen, Deryle Lonsdale, and Dilworth B. Parkinson, 2002, 141-154. Amsterdam: John Benjamins

• Disambiguating Spanish Change of State Verbs, Hispania, 2002, 85.900-908.

• A Usage-based Simulation of Spanish S-weakening, Journal of Italian Linguistics, 2001, 13.191-209.

• Pasar y Sentaros: Accounting for the Alternative Vosotros Imperative, Círculo de lingüística aplicada a la comunicación, 2002, 12.

• On 'becoming' in Spanish: A corpus analysis of verbs expressing change of state, Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 2002, 18.23-46.

• Dissociation in Italian conjugations: A single-route account, Brain and Language, 2002, 81.291-302

• Spanish Epenthesis: Formal and Performance Perspectives, Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, , 2001, 31.33-53.

• Surface analogy and spelling rules in English vowel alternations, Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 2001, 20. 85-105.

• Spanish diminutive formation without rules or constraints, Linguistics, 2002, 40.395-419.

• Why Quantitative?, Linguistics, 2002, 40.209-216.

• Spanish stress assignment within the Analogical Modeling of Language, Language, 2000, 76.92-109.

• Analogy and the dual-route model of morphology, Lingua, 2000, 110.281-298.

• Spanish diphthongization as a non-derivational phenomenon, Rivista di Linguistica, 1998, 10.335-354.

• The role of experiments in phonological investigation, Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 1999, 6.14-28.

• Diphthongization in Spanish Derivational Morphology: An Empirical Investigation, Hispanic Linguistics, 1996, 8.1-35.

• The Psychological Status of Phonological Analyses, Linguistica, 1996, 31.17-37.

• The Psychological Relevance of Phonological Generalizations in Spanish: An Experiment, Hispania, 78.875-884, 1995.

• Psychological Validity of Phonological Generalizations: A Priming Experiment in Spanish, Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 1994, 1.132-143.

• Word-medial Epenthesis in Spanish: A Lexical Phonological Approach, Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 1992, 11.14-28.

• Distancing as a Causal Factor in the Development of /Θ/ and /X/ in Spanish, Journal of Hispanic Philology, 14.239-245, 1990.

 

Interviews

• Speaking American, speaking Utahn.

• Case of the Missing 'T'" prominent among young Utah women

• BYU professor investigating case of the Missing 'T'

• Utahns who drop the T in words like 'mountain' not so unusual Y study says

• Utah Regionalisms and Dialects