Arto Anttila

Arto Anttila

Department of Linguistics
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2150
U.S.A.

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Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
Adjunct Professor (dosentti) in General Linguistics, University of Helsinki
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Ph.D., Stanford University 1998 (Linguistics)
M.A., University of Helsinki 1990 (General Linguistics and English Philology)

Interests:

Phonology, morphology, syntax, metrics, language variation. I currently work on maxent typologies with Giorgio Magri, on English sentence prosody with William Clapp and Naomi Shapiro, on automatic metrical scansion with Ryan Heuser and Paul Kiparsky, on Dagaare phonology and morphology with Adams Bodomo, and on Finnish word prosody and morphophonology, a permanent interest of mine.

Recent work:

De la Fuente, Antón, Brennan Nick, and Arto Anttila. 2023. Metrical uncertainty. MorrisHalle@100, September 10, 2023, MIT, Cambridge, MA. (poster, abstract).

Magri, Giorgio and Arto Anttila. 2023. Paradoxes of MaxEnt markedness. In Supplemental Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America. (paper, poster, abstract).

Anttila, Arto and Adams Bodomo. 2022. Tone and morphological level ordering in Dagaare. Phonology 39(3), 443-471. Published online 10 November 2023. (paper).

Anttila, Arto, Ryan Heuser, and Paul Kiparsky. 2022. Prose rhythm and antimetricality. Literary Linguistic Forms. 2022 LSA Annual Meeting, January 8, 2022. (slides)

Magri, Giorgio and Arto Anttila. 2022. Sensitivity to string length and feature count subverts MaxEnt universals. 29th Manchester Phonology Meeting, May 27, 2022. (slides)

O'Reilly-Brown, Madelaine, Brandon Papineau, and Arto Anttila. 2022. Itkonen structures 50 years on. Poster presented at the Third AMC Symposium: Change in syntax and phonology: the same or different? December 6, 2022. The University of Edinburgh. (poster, abstract).

Anttila, Arto. 2021. Finnish Consonant Gradation is a stochastic phonotactic constraint. Fonologi i Norden (FiNo 2021), University of Helsinki/Zoom. (slides)

Clapp, William Somers and Arto Anttila. 2021. To predict or to memorize: Prominence in inaugural addresses. In Ryan Bennett, Richard Bibbs, Mykel L. Brinkerhoff, Max J. Kaplan, Stephanie Rich, Amanda Rysling, Nicholas Van Handel, & Maya Wax Cavallaro (eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 2020 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America. (proceedings, paper)

Shapiro, Naomi Tachikawa and Arto Anttila. 2021. On the phonology and semantics of deaccentuation. In Ryan Bennett, Richard Bibbs, Mykel L. Brinkerhoff, Max J. Kaplan, Stephanie Rich, Amanda Rysling, Nicholas Van Handel, & Maya Wax Cavallaro (eds.), Proceedings of the 2020 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America. (proceedings, paper)

Wagner, Michael and Arto Anttila. 2021. What is deaccentuation? Targeted Collaborative Debate. The 44th GLOW Colloquium, April 16, 2021. (abstract, slides)

Software:

CoGeTo (Giorgio Magri & Arto Anttila 2019-): Convex Geometry Tools for studying categorical and probabilistic typologies in Optimality Theory, Harmonic Grammar, and MaxEnt grammar. Joint work with Giorgio Magri.

MetricalTree (Anttila, Dozat, Galbraith & Shapiro 2020) [under development]. English phrasal stress is largely predictable from syntax and the information content of words. MetricalTree written by Timothy Dozat assigns stress to written English sentences building on a syntactic representation provided by the Stanford Parser and the classical theories of Chomsky and Halle 1968 and Liberman and Prince 1977. Check out this sample output.

Prosodic (Ryan Heuser, Joshua Falk & Arto Anttila 2010-). A web app for the automatic metrical scansion of English and Finnish. For an application, see Anttila, Arto and Ryan Heuser. 2016. Phonological and metrical variation across genres, Proceedings of 2015 Annual Meeting on honology, Linguistic Society of America, Washington DC. (paper)

T-Order Generator (Curtis Andrus & Arto Anttila 2006). A Python program for computing T-orders in Optimality Theory, last updated August 31, 2010. For a short introduction, see Anttila, Arto. and Curtis Andrus. 2006. T-Orders. Manuscript and software. (pdf)

OTOrder (Alex Djalali & Cameron Jeffers 2015). A web app for working with Partial Order Optimality Theory. [I like this one a lot, but unfortunately it is currently off-line for reasons beyond my control. Please let me know if you are interested.]

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More papers, handouts, slides, and abstracts

Constraint Grammar of English

Arto Anttila