Publications

Note: manuscripts may not be identical with published versions

  • Morley, R.L. and B. Smith A reanalysis of the voicing effect in English: With implications for theories of phonological specification. Language and Speech (under review) [PDF]

  • Morley, R.L. Sound Structure and Sound Change: A Modeling Approach. Conceptual Foundations of Language Science Monograph Series. Language Science Press (2019)

  • Morley, R.L. Is Phonological consonant epenthesis possible? A series of artificial grammar learning experiments. Phonology 35 (2018): 649-688. [PDF]

  • Morley, R.L. Consonant Epenthesis. Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. Ed. Mark Aranoff. New York: Oxford University Press (2017).

  • Morley, R.L. Can Phonological Universals be Emergent? Modeling the space of sound change, lexical distribution, and hypothesis selection. Language 91:2 (2015): e40-e70 [PDF]
    Separate Appendix of all derivations in text. Language 91:2 (2015): s1-s20 [PDF]

  • Morley, R.L. Deletion or Epenthesis? On the Falsifiability of Phonological Universals. Lingua 154 (2015): 1-26. [PDF]
    Separate appendix of language data [PDF]

  • Morley, R.L. Implications of an Exemplar-Theoretic Model of Phoneme Genesis: A Velar Palatalization Case Study. Language and Speech (2014) 57:1, pages 3-41 [PDF]

  • Morley, R.L. Rapid learning of morphologically conditioned phonetics: vowel nasalization across a boundary. In A. Yu (ed.), Origins of Sound Change: Approaches to Phonologization. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2013) , pages 181-198. [PDF]

  • Morley, R.L. The Emergence of Epenthesis: An Incremental Model of Grammar Change. Language Dynamics and Change 2 (2012), pages 59-97. [PDF]

  • Morley, R.L. From Phonetics to Phonology: Learning Epenthesis. In Proceedings of the 47th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. (2011) 47(2) pp.137-151. [PDF]

  • Morley, R.L. Bayesian Learning over Conflicting Data: Predictions for language change. In Proceedings of 10th Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group on Computational Morphology and Phonology (2008), pages 2-11. [PDF]

Invited Presentations

  • Morley, R.L. Why epenthesis can help us answer the question of where phonology comes from. (2021). Stony Brook University Workshop on Epenthesis (virtual). [SLIDES]

  • Morley, R.L. Towards a domain-general theory of phonological contrast (2020). Cornell University (Virtual) [SLIDES]

  • Morley, R.L. Modeling Emergence in Phonological Space. Panel session speaker: Interplay between Linguistics and Biology (2019). 43rd Penn Linguistics Conference, University of Pennsylvania. [SLIDES]

  • Morley, R.L. Phonological Contrast as an Evolving Function of Local Predictability (2019). University of Massachusetts. Amherst, MASS.

  • Morley, R.L. On the Nature of the Mental Categories Involved in Speech: Some thought experiments (2017). Centre for Language Evolution, University of Edinburgh

Presentations

  • Morley, R.L. A Multiple-Parse Model of Sound Change. International Conference of Historical Linguistics. Australian National University. Canberra, AUS. July 4, 2019.

  • Morley, R.L.,Smith, B., Kohnlein, B., and Kim, N. From Consonant Voicing to Vowel Length: Invariant and co-varying cues to final "voicing" in American English. Poster presented at the Conference on Laboratory Phonology. Lisbon, Portugal.(2018)[PDF]

  • Morley, R.L. Locality & Predictivity. Keynote talk presented at the Workshop on the Emergence of Universals. OSU. Columbus, OH. (2018).[SLIDES]

  • Morley, R.L. A Representationally Consistent Model of Vowel Nasalization. Talk presented at Midphon 22. Columbus, OH.(2017). [SLIDES]

  • Morley, R.L. Representational Considerations in Models of Sound Change. Poster presented at the 4th International Workshop on Sound Change. Edinburgh, Scotland (2017)

  • Morley, R.L. On the Nature of the Mental Categories Involved in Speech: Some thought experiments. Invited Talk, Centre for Language Evolution, University of Edinburgh (2017)

  • Morley, R.L. Vowel Lengthening Effects in Natural Speech: Learning under sparse data and high variance. Poster presented at the Conference on Laboratory Phonology. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. (2016)

  • Morley, R.L. Analyzing token distributions in natural speech: Implications for models of sound change. Talk presented at MLK Symposium. Columbus, OH.(2016)

  • Morley, R.L. Rich Representational Models and Their Predictions. Talk presented at Midphon 20. Bloomington, IN.(2015)

  • Morley, R.L. (Non-) Phonologization: Individual Variation in an Artificial Grammar Learning Task. Talk presented at the 3rd Biennial Workshop on Sound Change. Berkeley, CA. (2014)

  • Morley, R.L. A Gradient Treatment of Contrast: Repercussions for Implicational Universals. Talk presented at CUNY Conference on the Segment in Phonology. (2012)

  • Morley, R.L. From Phonetics to Phonology: Learning Epenthesis. Talk presented at the 47th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. (2011)

  • Morley, R.L. Deletion or Epenthesis? Repercussions for a Theory of Phonological Universals. Talk presented at the 16th Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology. Chicago, IL. (2010)

  • Morley, R.L. From Probabilistic Sound Changes to Phonological Universals. Invited Talk, Northwestern University. Chicago, IL. (2010)

  • Morley, R.L. From Sound Change to Grammar Change: words, lexicons, and learners. Poster presented at the Workshop for Modeling Phonological Acquisition, Edmonton, Alberta. (2010) [Poster Slide]

  • Morley, R.L. Inducing Epenthesis: Phonetic, Phonological and Morphological Considerations. Talk presented at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Baltimore, MD. (2010)
    [4 page abstract]

  • Morley, R.L. Natural Interactions and the Limits of Unnaturalness. Talk presented at the 15th Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology, Bloomington, IN. (2009)

  • Morley, R.L. How Likely Are Impossible Languages? An Experimental Study of Epenthesis. Talk presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, CA. (2009)

  • Morley, R.L. Integrating Sub-phonemic Cues: Learning across a morpheme boundary. Poster presented at Laboratory Phonology 11, Wellington, NZ. (2008)

  • Morley, R.L. Bayesian Learning over Conflicting Data: Predictions for language change. Talk presented at SIGMORPHON 2008, Columbus, OH. (2008)
    In Proceedings of 10th Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group on Computational Morphology and Phonology, pages 2-11.

  • Morley, R.L. Phonetic Detail in the grammar: Learning conditioned coarticulation patterns. Talk presented at the Symposium on Phonologization, Chicago. (2008)

  • Morley, R.L. Diachronic Change, The Learner and the Lexicon. Poster presented at the 4th annual Hopkins Workshop on Language (2007)

  • Morley, R.L., W. Badecker, and P. Smolensky. Some limits on statistical learning. Poster presented at the Cognitive Science Society Meeting, Vancouver, Canada. (2006)

Dissertation

  • Generalization, Lexical Statistics, and Typologically Rare Systems. (September 2008)