Dresher, B. Elan. 2008. Between Music and Speech: The Relationship between Gregorian and Hebrew Chant. In Sarah Cummins, Bridget Jankowski and Patricia Shaw, eds.,
All the Things You Are: A Festschrift in Honour of Jack Chambers. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 27, Special Issue, 43-58.
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Compton, Richard and B. Elan Dresher. 2008. Palatalization and 'Strong' /i/ across Inuit Dialects. In Susie Jones, ed., Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, 12 pages. http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~cla-acl/actes2008/CLA2008_Compton_Dresher.pdf.
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Dresher, B. Elan. 2008. The Word in Tiberian Hebrew. In Kristin Hanson and Sharon Inkelas (eds.),
The Nature of the Word: Essays in Honor of Paul Kiparsky, 95-111. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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Dresher, B. Elan. 2008. The Logic of Contrast. In Robert Freidin, Carlos P. Otero and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta, eds.,
Foundational Issues in Linguistic Theory: Essays in Honor of Jean-Roger Vergnaud, 359-380. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
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Avery, Peter, B. Elan Dresher and Keren Rice, eds. 2008. Contrast in Phonology: Theory, Perception, Acquisition. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Avery, Peter, B. Elan Dresher and Keren Rice. 2008. Introduction. In Avery, Dresher and Rice, 1-8.
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Dresher, B. Elan. 2008. The Contrastive Hierarchy in Phonology. In Avery, Dresher and Rice, 11-33.
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Dresher, B. Elan. 2007. Variability in Trubetzkoy's Classification of Phonological Oppositions. The LACUS Forum 33, 133-142.
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Fikkert, Paula, B. Elan Dresher and Aditi Lahiri. 2006. Prosodic Preferences: From Old English to Early Modern English. In Ans van Kemenade and Bettelou Los, eds., The Handbook of the History of English, 125-150. Oxford: Blackwell.
Dresher, B. Elan and Nila Friedberg, eds. 2006. Formal Approaches To Poetry: Recent Developments In Generative Metrics (Phonology and Phonetics 11). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Dresher, B. Elan and Nila Friedberg. 2006. Introduction. In Dresher and Friedberg, 1-4.
Dresher, B. Elan. 2006. Review of John T, Jensen, Principles of Generative Phonology: An Introduction. The University of Toronto Quarterly 75.1, Winter 2006, 183-184.
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Dresher, B. Elan and Xi Zhang. 2005. Contrast and Phonological Activity in Manchu Vowel Systems. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 50, 45-82.
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Dresher, B. Elan 2005. Chomsky and Halle's Revolution in Phonology. In James McGilvray, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky, 102-122. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Dresher, B. Elan and Aditi Lahiri. 2005. Main Stress Left in Early Middle English. In Michael Fortescue, Eva Skafte Jensen, Jens Erik Mogensen, and Lene Schøsler, eds., Historical Linguistics 2003. Selected Papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 10-15 August 2003, John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
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Dresher, B. Elan. 2004. On the Acquisition of Phonological Contrasts. In Jacqueline van Kampen and Sergio Baauw, eds., Proceedings of GALA 2003, Volume 1 (LOT Occasional Series 3),, 27-46. Utrecht: LOT.
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Sara Mackenzie and B. Elan Dresher. 2004. Contrast and Phonological Activity in the Nez Perce Vowel System. In Pawel M. Nowak, Corey Yoquelet, and David Mortensen, eds., Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 14-17, 2003, 283-294. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.
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Dresher, B. Elan and Xi Zhang. 2004. Phonological Contrast and Phonetics in Manchu Vowel Systems. In Pawel M. Nowak, Corey Yoquelet, and David Mortensen, eds., Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 14-17, 2003, 103-114. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.
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Dresher, B. Elan and Xi Zhang. 2004. Contrast in Manchu Vowel Systems. In Carsten Naher, ed., Proceedings of the First International Conference on Manchu-Tungus Studies (Bonn, August 28-September 1, 2000). Volume 2: Trends in Tungusic and Siberian Linguistics, 23-43. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
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Zhang, Xi and B. Elan Dresher. 2004. Tongue Root Harmony in Written Manchu. In Carsten Naher, ed., Proceedings of the First International Conference on Manchu-Tungus Studies (Bonn, August 28-September 1, 2000). Volume 2: Trends in Tungusic and Siberian Linguistics, 161-190. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Dresher, B. Elan. 2004. On the Acquisition of Phonological Representations. In William Sakas, ed., Proceedings of the First Workshop on Psycho-computational Models of Human Language Acquisition, 41-48. www.colag.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/psychocomp/PsychoCompProceedings.pdf.
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"The Contrastive Hierarchy in Phonology," in Daniel Currie Hall, ed., Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics (Special Issue on Contrast in Phonology), 20, 2003.
"Meno's Paradox and the Acquisition of Grammar," in Stefan Ploch, ed., Living on the Edge: 28 Papers in Honour of Jonathan Kaye (Studies in Generative Grammar 62), Mouton De Gruyter, Berlin, 7-27, 2003.
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"Determining Contrastiveness: A Missing Chapter in the History of Phonology," in Sophie Burelle and Stanca Somesfalean, eds., Proceedings of the CLA 2002, 8293, 2003.
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"Contrast and asymmetries in inventories," in Anna-Maria di Sciullo, ed., Asymmetry in Grammar, Volume 2: Morphology, Phonology, Acquisition, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 239-257, 2003.
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"Review of John Archibald, Second Language Phonology," in "Letters in Canada 1999," The University of Toronto Quarterly 70:1, 305-306, 2000/2001.
"Analogical Levelling of Vowel Length in West Germanic," in Aditi Lahiri, ed., Analogy, Levelling, Markedness: Principles of Change in Phonology and Morphology (Trends in Linguistics; Studies and Monographs 127), Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 47-70, 2000.
"Charting the Learning Path: Cues to Parameter Setting," Linguistic Inquiry 30, 27-67, 1999. View abstract
"Child Phonology, Learnability, and Phonological Theory," in Tej Bhatia and William C. Ritchie, eds., Handbook of Language Acquisition, Academic Press, N.Y., 299-346, 1999.
"Language in the Time of Babel," Forward, 16, October 15, 1999.
(with William J. Idsardi) "Prerequisites for a Theory of Diachronic Adaptation," Open peer commentary on Martin Haspelmath, "Optimality and Diachronic Adaptation," Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 18, 212-215, 1999.
(with Aditi Lahiri) "Open Syllable Lengthening in West Germanic," Language 75, 678-719, 1999.
Learnability and Phonological Theory," in J. Durand and B. Laks, eds., Current Trends in Phonology: Models and Methods, University of Salford Publications, CNRS, Paris- X and University of Salford, Vol. 1, 245-266, 1996.
"Introduction to Metrical and Prosodic Phonology," in James L. Morgan & Katherine Demuth, eds., Signal to Syntax: Bootstrapping From Speech to Grammar in Early Acquisition, Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ, 41-54, 1996.
(with Alana Johns) "Rigolet and Phonological Change in Labrador," Etudes/Inuit/Studies 20, 113-121, 1996.
(with Xi Zhang) "Labial Harmony in Written Manchu," Saksaha: A Review of Manchu Studies 1, 13-24, 1996.
(with Harry van der Hulst) "Global Determinacy and Learnability in Phonology," in John Archibald, ed., Phonological Acquisition and Phonological Theory, Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ, 1-21, 1995.
(with Alana Johns) "The Law of Double Consonants in Inuktitut," Linguistica Atlantica 17, 79 95, 1995.
(with Harry van der Hulst) "Head-Dependent Asymmetries in Phonology," in H. van der Hulst and J. van de Weijer, eds., Leiden in Last: HIL Phonology Papers I, Holland Academic Graphics, The Hague, 401-431, 1995.
"Charting the Learning Path: Cues to Parameter Setting," in P. Koskinen, ed., Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 14,1, 1-19, 1995.
(with Xi Zhang) "Labial Harmony in Written Manchu," in Proceedings of the 1995 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, 661-677, 1995.
"The Prosodic Basis of the Tiberian Hebrew System of Accents," Language 70, 1-52, 1994.
"Acquiring Stress Systems," in Eric Sven Ristad, ed., Language Computations (DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, v. 17), AMS, Providence, RI, 71-92, 1994.
(with Glyne Piggott & Keren Rice) "Contrast in Phonology: Overview," in C. Dyck, ed., Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 13,1, iii-xvii, 1994.
"The Chronology and Status of Anglian Smoothing," in Sharon Hargus and Ellen Kaisse, eds., Studies in Lexical Phonology (Phonetics and Phonology, Volume 4), Academic Press, New York, 325-341, 1993.
"Review: Richard M. Hogg, A Grammar of Old English. Volume 1: Phonology," Phonology 10, 146-157, 1993.
(with Keren Rice) "Preface: Complexity in Phonological Representations," in C. Dyck, ed., Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 12,2, i-vi, 1993.
(with Harry van der Hulst) "Head-Dependent Asymmetries in Phonology," in C. Dyck, ed., Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 12,2, 1-17, 1993.
"Cues and Parameters in Phonology," in L. M. Dobrin, L. Nichols, and R. M. Rodriguez, eds., CLS 27: Papers from the 27th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 1991, Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, IL, 119-140, 1993.
"A Learning Model for a Parametric Theory in Phonology," in Robert Levine, ed., Formal Grammar: Theory and Implementation, Oxford University Press, New York, 290-317, 1992.
(with Aditi Lahiri) "The Germanic Foot: Metrical Coherence in Old English," Linguistic Inquiry 22, 251-286, 1991.
"YOUPIE: A Parameter-Based Learning Model for Metrical Phonology," in Ian Lancashire, ed., Research in Humanities Computing I: Selected Papers from the ALLC/ACH Conference, Toronto, June 1989, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 149-162, 1991.
(with Jonathan D. Kaye) "A Computational Learning Model for Metrical Phonology," Cognition 34, 137-195, 1990.
"On the Unity of the Mercian Second Fronting," in Sylvia Adamson et al. (eds.) Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 65), John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 141-164, 1990.
"Review Article: Morris Halle and Jean-Roger Vergnaud, An Essay on Stress," Phonology 7, 171-188, 1990.
(with Norbert Hornstein) "Language and the Deep Unconscious Mind: Aspectualities of the Theory of Syntax," commentary on J. R. Searle, "Consciousness, Explanatory Inversion, and Cognitive Science," Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13, 602-603, 1990.
"The Prosodic Hierarchy in Tiberian Hebrew," in B. Brunson, S. Burton, and T. Wilson, eds., Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 10, 33-50, 1989.
"In Defence of UG," in P. Avery, ed., Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 8, 60-79, 1987.
Old English and the Theory of Phonology, in the series Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics, Garland Publishing, New York, 1985.
"Constraints on Empty Positions in Tiered Phonology," in D. Mullen and J. van Voorst, eds., Cahiers linguistique d'Ottawa No. 14, 1-51, November 1985.
"Abstractness, Underspecification, and Empty Skeletal Positions," in S. Berman, J.-W. Choe, and J. McDonough, eds., Proceedings of NELS 15, GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 105-117, 1985.
"Second Fronting in the Old English Dialect of the Omont Leaf," in J. T. Jensen et al, eds., Cahiers linguistique d'Ottawa No. 12, 39-48, February 1984.
(with Aditi Lahiri) "Diachronic and Synchronic Implications of Declension Shifts," The Linguistic Review 3, 141-163, 1983-84.
"Postlexical Phonology in Tiberian Hebrew," in M. Barlow, D. P. Flickinger, and M. T. Wescoat, eds., Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Vol. 2, Stanford Linguistics Association, Stanford University, Stanford, 1983.
"Accentuation and Metrical Structure in Tiberian Hebrew," in J. Pustejovsky and P. Sells, eds., Proceedings of NELS 12, GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 75-85, 1982.
"On the Learnability of Abstract Phonology," in C. L. Baker and John J. McCarthy, eds., The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition, MIT Press, Cambridge, 188-210, 1981.
"Abstractness and Explanation in Phonology" in Norbert Hornstein and David Lightfoot, eds., Explanation in Linguistics, Longman, London, 76-115, 1981.
"Accentuation and Metrical Structure in Tiberian Hebrew," in H. Borer and Y. Aoun, eds., MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 3, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT, Cambridge, 180-208, 1981.
"Metrical Structure and Secondary Stress in Tiberian Hebrew," in C. Chapin, ed., Brown University Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. IV, Brown University, 1980-1981.
"The Mercian Second Fronting: A Case of Rule Loss in Old English," Linguistic Inquiry 11, 47 73, 1980.
(with Norbert Hornstein) "Trace Theory and NP Movement Rules," Linguistic Inquiry 10, 65 82, 1979.
"Review of R. Lass and J. M. Anderson, Old English Phonology," Language 54, 432-445, 1978.
"`Abstractness' in Phonology: Evidence from Change," in M. J. Stein, ed., Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the North Eastern Linguistic Society, GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1978.
(with Norbert Hornstein) "Reply to Winograd," Cognition 5, 379-392, 1977.
(with Norbert Hornstein) "Reply to Schank and Wilensky," Cognition 5, 147-149, 1977.
"Logical Representations and Linguistic Theory," Linguistic Inquiry 8, 351-378, 1977.
(with Norbert Hornstein) "On Some Supposed Contributions of Artificial Intelligence to the Scientific Study of Language," Cognition 4, 321-398, 1976.
"Two Cases of Diachronic Rule Reanalysis in the Mercian Dialect of Old
English," in J. Stillings, ed., UMass Occasional Papers in Linguistics,
Vol. II, GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1976.
Selected Recent Talks
"Synchronic Principles in Diachronic Change," Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics, Oxford University, May 23, 2011.
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"On the Role and Evaluation of Contrast in Phonology," the Nineteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting (mfm19), Hulme Hall, Manchester, May 19-21, 2011 [Special Session on Contrast in Phonology, invited talk].
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"Is harmony limited to contrastive features?" Phonology in the
21st Century: In Honour of Glyne Piggott, McGill University, May 2011
[invited talk].
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"Feature Hierarchies: Halle (1959) to Clements (2009)," 8e Rencontres Internationales du Réseau Français de Phonologie. En Hommage à Nick Clements, University of Orléans, July 2010 [invited plenary talk].
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"Dating the Hebrew Bible: Can Linguistics Help?" Friends of Linguistics At the University of Toronto (FLAUT) and Spring Reunion 2010, University of Toronto, May 2010. Revised version of "Methodological Issues in the Dating of Linguistic Forms: Considerations from the Perspective of Contemporary Linguistic Theory," National Association of Professors of Hebrew session on Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew, part of the 2009 annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, New Orleans, November 2009 [invited talk].
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"The Abstractness of Minimal Contrast," University of Maryland Linguistics Colloquium, April 2010.
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"Underlying Contrasts and the East Slavic Post-velar Fronting," poster, annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Ottawa, May 2009.
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Columns in GLOT International"Recent Issues in Linguistics"
The complete set of columns plus one bonus column has been reprinted as Waters, Cathleen (ed.). 2010. B. Elan Dresher's Collected Columns from Glot International. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 32.
- "There's No Reality Like Psychological Reality," Glot International 1, 1, January 23, 1995, p. 7.
- "On the Trail of the Tiger," Glot International 1, 3, March 27, 1995, p. 7.
- "The Columnist and the Keyser," Glot International 1, 5, July 28, 1995, p. 8.
- "Functional Categories in DNA," Glot International 1, 7, September 1995, p. 8.
- "The Ladder and the Arch," Glot International 1, 9/10, November/December 1995, p. 9.
- "The Rise of Optimality Theory in First Century Palestine,"Glot International 2, 1/2, January/February 1996, p. 8.
- "The Untouchables," Glot International 2, 4, April 1996, p. 11.
- "The Olde Yankee Grammarian," Glot International 2, 7, September 1996 [1997], p. 7-8.
- "The Geese Rethink Innateness," Glot International 2, 9/10, December 1996 [1997], p. 8-9.
- "Noch Einmal Comparative Germanic: A Tale of Two Journals," Glot International 3, 2, February 1998, p. 11-12.
- "Communicating Modality," Glot International 3, 4, April 1998, p. 9.
- "Hidden Codes in the Hebrew Bible?" Glot International 3, 8, October 1998, p. 10.
- "The Formalist in the Field," Glot International 3, 9/10, December 1998, p. 8.
- "Invasion of the Language Viruses," Glot International 4, 2, February 1999, p. 12. download pdf 99KB
- "Ferdinand, We Hardly Knew You," Glot International 4, 6, August 1999, p. 9.
- "The Pyramid of Popularization," Glot International 4, 8, October 1999, p. 8.
- "The Tower of Babel," Glot International 5, 2, February 2001, p. 58-60.
- "Only Connect," Glot International 5, 4, April 2001, p. 134-136.
- "The End of Linguistics?" Glot International 5, 6, June 2001, p. 208-210.
- "A Look Back at the Gastronomy Wars," Glot International 5, 8, October 2001, 272-274.
- "Invisible Laboratories," Glot International 6, 1, January 2002, 12-14.
- "Crouching Philosopher, Hidden Linguist," Glot International 6, 5, May 2002, 125-127.
- "Messages from the Linguistics Room," Glot International 6, 7, September 2002.
- "A Moment in Western Culture: World Music, Postmodernism, and Syllable Structure," Glot International 7, 1/2, January/February 2003.
- "A Generative Linguist in Connecticut," Glot International 7, 5, 12-14, May 2003.
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