Stephanie S Shih linguistics

Research

Interests

Suprasegmentals: rhythm, syllables, weight, tone
Phonology-morphology-syntax interface
Non-concatenative morphology and morphophonology
Quantitative and corpus methods
Poetic and musical forms

Current Projects

Rhythmic and phonological influences on syntactic and lexical choice
Tone processes and parallelisms in harmony systems:
- Consonant-tone interaction in Agreement by Correspondence
- Contour segments and tones in subsegmental agreement (ABC+Q) (joint project with Sharon Inkelas)
End weight in heavy constituent shift (joint project with Jason Grafmiller)
Text-setting evidence for Japanese prosodic structures (joint project with Rebecca Starr)
"Phonomastics": phonological well-formedness preferences in proper names

Research affiliations

Stanford Spoken Syntax Lab
Crosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology (Stanford University & UC Santa Cruz)

Selected Papers and Presentations

for a complete list, please see the CV.

Selected Papers

"Consonant-Tone Interaction as Agreement-by-Correspondence." (under review)
[Manuscript.pdf] (comments welcome)
"Rhythm's role in genitive construction choice in spoken English." (to appear)
with Jason Grafmiller, Richard Futrell, and Joan Bresnan. [Preprint.pdf]
"Weighing in on end weight." (in prep) with Jason Grafmiller. [Abstract.pdf]
"Stress, length, and moraic trochees in Northern Tiwa Picuris." (2009 Ms) [Abstract.pdf] [Manuscript.pdf]
"Prosodic evidence for the lexical status of quasi-serial verbs." (2009 Ms) [Manuscript.pdf]

Selected Presentations - handouts available upon request

(2013) with Sharon Inkelas. "Contour segments and tones in subsegmental Agreement by
Correspondence." The 21st Manchester Phonology Meeting. 23-25 May 2013.
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. [Abstract.pdf] [Handout.pdf]
(2013) "Function versus content word prosodifcation: evidence from phonetic reducibility."
Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Grammatical Word. 10-11 May 2013.
University of California, Davis. [Abstract.pdf]
(2012) "Rhythmic influences in syntactic choice." Workshop on Locality and Directionality
at the Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface. 12-14 Oct 2012. Stanford University.
(2011) "Linguistic determinants of personal name choice."
LSA 2012 Annual Meeting. Portland, Oregon. [Slides.pdf]
(2011) "Consonant-tone interaction as Agreement-by-Correspondence."
The 19th Manchester Phonology Meeting. 19-21 May 2011. University of Manchester,
Manchester, UK. [Abstract.pdf]
(2011) "Stress, length, and moraic trochees in Northern Tiwa Picuris."
CUNY Conference on the Phonology of Endangered Languages. 12-14 Jan 2011.
City University of New York, New York. [Handout.pdf] [Audio of talk.mp3]
(2011) with Jason Grafmiller. "Weighing in on end weight."
LSA 2011 Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [Slides.pdf]
(2010) "Corpus and computational tools for generative metrics."
(Symposium) A comparison of models of meter: Corpora and other sources of evidence
for metrical theory and method. LSA 2010 Annual Meeting. Baltimore, Maryland. [Slides.pdf]
(2009) with Jason Grafmiller, Richard Futrell, and Joan Bresnan. "Rhythm's role in predicting
genitive and dative alternation choice in spoken English." DGfS: Rhythm beyond the word.
Osnabruck, Germany.
(2007) "Rethinking linguistic models of rhythm through evidence from jazz bop swing."
International Conference on Music Communication Science. Sydney, Australia. [Abstract.pdf]

Downloadables

Random Forests for Classification Trees and Categorical Dependent Variables:
an informal Quick Start R Guide last updated: 2 February 2011
Summary of Basic Statistical Tests in R

Research software and corpora - Downloads by request.

Links

at Stanford

at Berkeley

Berkeley Phonetics and Phonology Forum (Phorum)

Collaborators