AVID
DDINGTON
I am a Professor at Brigham Young University, where I teach Linguistics.
Phonological and morphological theory
Spanish language and linguistics.
Psycholinguistics, in particular, the role of phonology and morphology in language production and storage (the mental lexicon).
Exemplar-based models of language that account for rule-like behavior without assuming the existence of rules, such as Analogical Modeling of Language, and the Tilburg Memory-based Learner
The Syllabification of American English: Evidence from a Large-scale Experiment, (coauthored with Rebecca Treiman and Dirk Elzinga). Poster at the CUNY Conference on the Syllable.
What are the contextual variants of /b d g/ in colloquial Spanish? Probus 23. 1-19.
Argument Constructions and Language Processing: Evidence from a Priming Experiment and Pedagogical Implications, (coauthored with Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza). Fostering Language Teaching Efficiency Through Cognitive Linguistics, Edited by Sabine de Knop, Frank Boers, and Antoon de Rycher, 213-238.Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2010.
American English has Got a Lot of Glottal Stops, (coauthored with Caitlin Channer), American Speech, 85. 338-351, 2010.
A Computational Analysis of Navajo Verb Stems, (coauthored with Jordan Lachler), Experimental and Empirical Methods in Cognitive/Functional Research, edited by Sally Rice and John Newman, 143-161. Stanford, CA: CSLI, 2010.
A Comparison of Two Tools for Analyzing Linguistic Data: Logistic Regression and Decision Trees, Italian Journal of Linguistics 22. 265-286, 2010.
T-glottalization in American English, (coauthored with Michael Taylor), American Speech 84. 298-314, 2009.
Quantitative and Experimental Linguistics, editor. Munchen: Lincom, 2009.
Dialect recognition: The Effects of Region of Origin and Amount of Experience, (coauthored with Wendy Baker and Lyndsey Nay), American Speech, 2009, 84.48-71.
Spanish Verbal Inflection: A Single- or Dual-route System?, Linguistics, 2009, 47.173-199.
Linguistics and the Scientific Method, Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 2008, 27.1-16.
The Phonetic Context of Flapping in American English: Quantitative Evidence, (coauthored with Dirk Elzinga), Language and Speech, 2008, 51.245-266
El Abundante Agua: Hermaphroditic Spanish Nouns, (coauthored with José Ignacio Hualde), Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2008, 1.5-31.
Flapping and Other Variants of /t/ in American English: Allophonic Distribution without Constraints, Rules, or Abstractions, Cognitive Linguistics, 2007, 18.23-46.
Analogical Modeling: An Update, (coauthored with Deryle Lonsdale), Proceedings of the European Summer School on Logic, Language, and Information, 2007.
Paradigm Uniformity and Analogy: The Capitalistic versus Militaristic Debate, International Journal of English Studies, 2006, 6.1-18.
A Usage-based Approach to Spanish Verbs of Becoming, (coauthored with Joan Bybee), Language, 2006, 82.323-354.
Negative Prestige and Sound Change: A Sociolinguistic Study of the Assibilation of /r/ in Piripiri Portuguese, (coauthored with Michael Taylor.) Selected Proceedings of the 9th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium edited by Nuria Sagarra and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, 2006, 320-325. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla.
Selected Proceedings of the 7th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, editor. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla, 2005.
Selected Proceedings of the 6th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages, editor. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla, 2005.
Spanish Phonology and Morphology: Experimental and Quantitative Perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2004.
Review of Spanish Phonology and Morphology: Experimental and Quantitative Perspectives,Linguist List 16.1457, 2005 by Matthew Carlson.
Review of Spanish Phonology and Morphology: Experimental and Quantitative Perspectives,Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana 4.202-205, 2006 by Gema Mazón Gutiérrez.
Review of Spanish Phonology and Morphology: Experimental and Quantitative Perspectives, to appear in Language by José Ignacio Hualde.
Review of Spanish Phonology and Morphology: Experimental and Quantitative Perspectives, to appear in Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, by Michael Cysouw.
A Computational Approach to Resolving Certain Issues in Spanish Stress Placement, Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology, ed. by Timothy Face, 2004, 95-115. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Issues in modeling language processing analogically, Lingua, 2003, 114.849-871.
Are plurals derived or stored?(Coauthored with Patricia Lestrade), Structure, meaning, and acquisition in Spanish, ed. by James. F. Lee, Kimberly L. Geeslin, and J. Clancy Clements, 2002, 269-284. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Spanish gender assignment in an analogical framework, Journal of Quantitative Lingusitics, 2002, 9.49-75.
Disambiguating Spanish Change of State Verbs, Hispania, 2002, 85.900-908.
A Usage-based Simulation of Spanish S-weakening, Journal of Italian Linguistics, 2001, 13.191-209.
Pasar y Sentaros: Accounting for the Alternative Vosotros Imperative, Círculo de lingüística aplicada a la comunicación, 2002, 12.
On 'becoming' in Spanish: A corpus analysis of verbs expressing change of state, Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 2002, 18.23-46.
Dissociation in Italian conjugations: A single-route account, Brain and Language, 2002, 81.291-302
Spanish Epenthesis: Formal and Performance Perspectives, Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, , 2001, 31.33-53.
Surface analogy and spelling rules in English vowel alternations, Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 2001, 20. 85-105.
Spanish diminutive formation without rules or constraints, Linguistics, 2002, 40.395-419.
Spanish stress assignment within the Analogical Modeling of Language, Language, 2000, 76.92-109.
Analogy and the dual-route model of morphology, Lingua, 2000, 110.281-298.
The role of experiments in phonological investigation, Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 1999, 6.14-28
Diphthongization in Spanish Derivational Morphology: An Empirical Investigation, Hispanic Linguistics, 1996, 8.1-35
The psychological status of phonological analyses, Linguistica, 1996, 31.17-37
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Linguistics and English Language
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