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Associate Professor, Linguistics
Research Keywords
Presentations
- Harmonic Bounding in (Noisy) Harmonic Grammar. Invited talk at Linguistics at Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz, CA.
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Presented, 2020.
- Optionality, Markedness Suppression, and the Status of Processes in Phonology. University of Utah.
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Presented, 2010.
- Peak Delay and Tonal Noniterativity. University of Southern California Phon Lunch.
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Presented, 2008.
- Processes and Optionality in Chamorro Umlaut. Stanford Phonology Workshop.
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Presented, 2007.
- Licensed Harmony in Lango. Trilateral Phonology Weekend, Berkeley, CA.
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Presented, 2006.
- Restricting Coda Clusters in Optimality Theory. Linguistics at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA.
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Presented, 2004.
- Rubin, Edward & Aaron Kaplan (2021) Segmental and Prosodic Influences on Bolognese Epenthesis. Epenthesis and Beyond, Stony Brook University, September 17.
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Presented, 2021.
- Kaplan, Aaron (2021) Serial versus Parallel Noisy HG Accounts of Eastern Andalusian Harmony. The 28th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK, May 28.
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Presented, 2021.
- Noisy HG Models of Eastern Andalusian Harmony. Sixteenth Old World Conference in Phonology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
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Presented, 2019.
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- Noisy HG Models of Eastern Andalusian Harmony. Analyzing Typological Structure: From Categorical to Probabilistic Phonology, Stanford Univ., September 22.
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Presented, 2018.
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- Intervening Positions in Long-Distance Positional Licensing Effects. GLOW 41, Budapest.
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Presented, 2018.
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- Imperfect Rhymes as a Measure of Phonological Similarity, UNC Spring Colloquium.
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Presented, 2018.
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- Overshoot in Positional Licensing. Western Conference on Linguistics, Boise, ID.
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Presented, 2017.
- The Limits of Positive Constraints. paper presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington, DC.
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Presented, 2016.
- Long-distance licensing in Harmonic Grammar. Paper presented at Strong Versus Weak Prosodic Positions: Possible Variation and Relevance for Grammar. Leipzig, Germany.
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Presented, 2015.
- McCarvel, Miranda and Aaron Kaplan (2014) Positional Faithfulness in Harmonic Grammar. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Minneapolis, MN, January 2–5.
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Presented, 2014.
- Maximal Prominence in Positional Licensing. The 21st Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK, May 25.
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Presented, 2013.
- Variation in Eastern Andalusian Vowel Harmony. University of North Carolina Spring Colloquium, Chapel Hill, NC, April 28.
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Presented, 2012.
- Gradualness and Harmonic Improvement without Candidate Chains in Chamorro. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Baltimore, MD.
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Presented, 2010.
- Pretonic Non-Prominence in Chamorro Umlaut. Fifth Old World Conference in Phonology, Toulouse, France.
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Presented, 2008.
- Stress is the Trigger of Chamorro Umlaut. Mid-America Linguistics Conference, Lawrence, Kansas.
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Presented, 2007.
- Vowel Harmony in Lango: Noniterativity and Licensing. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Anaheim, CA.
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Presented, 2007.
- Prosodic Tone with Segmental Pitch. The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley, CA.
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Presented, 2006.
- Segmental Behavior of Suprasegmental Tone. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, NM.
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Presented, 2006.
- Segmental Behavior of Suprasegmental Tone. Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology 11, Ann Arbor, MI.
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Presented, 2005.
- Long-Distance Wh-Movement in Chamorro. 12th Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, Los Angeles, CA.
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Presented, 2005.
- Vowel Length and Coda Cluster Interactions in Misantla Totonac. Penn Linguistics Colloquium 29, Philadelphia, PA.
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Presented, 2005.
- Patterns of Relativization and Recent Formulations of Markedness. 2002 UNC Linguistics Colloquium, Chapel Hill, NC.
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Presented, 2002.
- Edward Rubin & Aaron Kaplan. Lexical Selection in Bolognese Clitic Allomorphy. Poster presented at Going Romance 2021, Amsterdam, December 3.
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Presented, 2021.
- Opacity in Eastern Andalusian Harmony. Annual Meeting on Phonology 2020, UC Santa Cruz, September 20.
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Presented, 2020.
- Positive Positional Licensing and Overshoot in Tudanca Montañés. LSA Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT.
Poster,
Presented, 2018.
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- Opportunistic Centralization in Tudanca Montañés. The 25th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK.
Poster,
Presented, 2017.
- Long-Distance Licensing in Harmonic Grammar. presented at the American Meeting on Phonology, Vancouver, BC.
Poster,
Presented, 2015.
- McCarvel, Miranda and Aaron Kaplan (2013) Positional Faithfulness in Harmonic Grammar. poster presented at Phonology 2013, Amherst, MA, November 10.
Poster,
Presented, 2013.
- Bayles, Andrew, Aaron Kaplan, and Abby Kaplan (2013) Intra- and Inter-Speaker Variation in French Schwa: Implications for Theories of Optionality. poster presented at Phonology 2013, Amherst, MA, November 10.
Poster,
Presented, 2013.
- McCarvel, Miranda and Aaron Kaplan (2013) Positional Faithfulness in Harmonic Grammar. poster presented at the 44th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Storrs, CT, October 19.
Poster,
Presented, 2013.
- Chamorro Umlaut: An Argument Against Candidate Chains.
Poster,
Presented, 2009.
- Iterative Optionality and Markedness Suppression.
Poster,
Presented, 2009.
- Licensing and Noniterative Harmony in Lango.
Poster,
Presented, 2006.
- NP Types in Relative Clauses: Corpus Results and Reading-Time Measures. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Philadelphia, PA.
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Presented, 2001.
Languages
Publications
- Aaron Kaplan (date unknown). The Syllable as Contour Tone Host. Phonology at Santa Cruz 7.
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- Aaron Kaplan (date unknown). What Constitutes Privileged Positions In Vowel Harmony?. Oxford University Press.
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- Aaron Kaplan (date unknown). Long-Distance Licensing in Harmonic Grammar. Proceedings of AMP 2015.
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- (date unknown). Stress is the Trigger of Chamorro Umlaut. Emily Tummons and Stephanie Lux (eds.), Proceedings of the 2007 Mid-America Linguistics Conference, Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics Vol. 30, 135-149.
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- (date unknown). Vowel Length and Coda Cluster Interactions in Misantla Totonac. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Penn Linguistics Club.
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- Aaron Kaplan (date unknown). Persistence and Opacity in Eastern Andalusian Harmony. Linguistic Society of America.
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- Aaron Kaplan (date unknown). Tonal and Morphological Identity in Reduplication. Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 32.
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- (date unknown). Licensing and Noniterative Harmony in Lango. Proceedings of NELS 37.
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- (date unknown). Long-Distance Wh-Movement in Chamorro. Jeffrey Heinz and Dimitris Ntelitheos (eds.), Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA), UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics, 117-130.
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- (date unknown). Phonology at Santa Cruz 7 (with David Teeple).
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- Aaron Kaplan (date unknown). Categorical and Gradient Ungrammaticality in Optional Processes. Language. Vol. 97, 703-731.
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- Aaron Kaplan (date unknown). Overshoot in Licensing-Driven Harmony. Phonology. Vol. 36, 605-626.
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- Aaron Kaplan (date unknown). Maximal Prominence and a Theory of Possible Licensors. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 33.4, 1235-1270.
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- Aaron Kaplan (date unknown). Variation through Markedness Suppression. Phonology 28.3, 331-370.
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- Aaron Kaplan (date unknown). Harmonic Improvement without Candidate Chains in Chamorro. Linguistic Inquiry 42.4, 631-650.
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- Aaron Kaplan (date unknown). Local Optionality with Partial Orders. Phonology 33.2:285–324.
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- Aaron Kaplan (date unknown). Positional Licensing, Asymmetric Trade-Offs, and Gradient Constraints in Harmonic Grammar. Phonology. Vol. 35, 247-286.
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- Miranda McCarvel (date unknown). Positional Faithfulness in Harmonic Grammar. Journal of Linguistics. Vol. 55, 12-159.
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