Research Interests

• Phonology
• Phonetics
• Philosophy of linguistics

Current Research Projects

• Laryngeal features in Central Standard Swedish
• Voice Assimilation in Central Standard Swedish
• Grimm’s Law 

Recent Publications

• 2013. “Swedish quantity: Central Standard Swedish and Fenno-Swedish,” Journal of Phonetics (with Pétur Helgason & Kari Suomi.)
• 2013  “Quantity and laryngeal contrasts in  Norwegian,” Journal of Phonetics, 41, 479-490. (With W. van Dommelen.)
• 2013. "Empirical evidence for laryngeal features: Aspirating vs. true voice languages." Journal of Linguistics. (With Jill Beckman and Michael Jessen.)
• 2012. "Voicing in Russian stops: Cross-linguistic implications." Journal of Slavic Linguistics. 20.2, 269-286, (With Vladimir Kulikov.)
• 2012. "The voicing contrast in Fenno-Swedish stops." Journal of Phonetics. 40, 419-429, (With Kari Suomi.)
• 2011. Approaches to Hungarian 12. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (Edited with Tibor Laczkó.)
• 2011. "Geminates: Heavy or long?" Handbook of the Syllable, ed. by C. Cairns and E. Raimy, pp. 155-169. Leiden: Brill. (With. R. Vago).
• 2011 "Rate Effects on Swedish VOT: Evidence for Phonological Overspecification," Journal of Phonetics 39:39-49. (With Jill Beckman, Pétur Helgason and Bob McMurray.)
• 2011. "The features [voice] and [spread glottis]," Phonological Studies 14, 119-128.
• 2010. "Quantity in Central Standard Swedish and Fenno-Swedish," Proceedings Fonetik 2011, ed. by S. Schö and G. Ambrazaitis, pp. 47-50. Lund: Lund University, Centre for Languages and Literature. (With Pétur Helgason and Kari Suomi)
• 2009. "Fenno-Swedish VOT: Influence from Finnish?" Proceedings Fonetik 2009, 60-65. (With Kari Suomi.)
• 2009. "German Fricatives: Coda Devoicing or Positional Faithfulness?" Phonology 26 (2009), 231-268. ©Cambridge University Press. (With Jill Beckman and Michael Jessen.)
• 2008. "Voicing and Aspiration in Swedish Stops," Journal of Phonetics. (With Pétur Helgason.)
• 2007. "Regressive voice assimilation in Swedish," Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences XVI, Saarbrücken, Germany, 1357-1360. (With Pétur Helgason.)
• 2006. "Phonetic Variation and Phonological Theory: German Fricative Voicing," in WCCFL 26 Proceedings. (With J. Beckman and M. Jessen.)
• 2006. "Voice and Aspiration: Evidence from Russian, Hungarian, German, Swedish, and Turkish," The Linguistic Review. (With Olga Petrova, Rosemary Plapp, and Szilárd Szentgyörgyi.)
• 2004. "Contrast and Redundancy in Optimality Theory," in WCCFL 23 Proceedings. (With Jill Beckman.)
• 2004. "Distinctive [voice] Does Not Imply Regressive Assimilation: Evidence from Swedish," in P. Boersma & J. A. Cutillas Espinosa (eds.), International Journal of English Studies: Advances in Optimality Theory. (With Pétur Helgason.)
• 2004. "Voice and aspiration in Austrian German Plosives." Folia Linguistica XXXVIII/1-2, Special issue, Voicing, Grzegorz Dogil, editor,43-62 (With Sylvia Moosmüller.)
• 2002. "Laryngeal features in German," Phonology 19.2 (2002), 189-218. ©Cambridge University Press. (With Michael Jessen.)
• 2001. "Are there any underlying voiced stops in German?" in Caroline Féry, Antony Dubach Green & Ruben van de Vijver (eds.), Proceedings of HILP5, 66-85, University of Potsdam. (With Michael Jessen.)
• 2001. "On the status of [voice] in German," in the Proceedings of WCCFL 20, K. Megerdoomian and L. A. Bar-el, (eds.), Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 304-317. (With Michael Jessen.)
• 2000. "Icelandic Umlaut in Optimality Theory," Nordic Journal of Linguistics 23. (With Courtenay Gibson.)
• 2000. "Constraint reranking in the Szeged Dialect of Hungarian," in Gabor Alberti (ed.), Approaches to Hungarian, Vol. 7, Szeged:JATE Press 3-21. (With Szilard Szentgyörgyi.)
• 1999. "Aspiration, Preaspiration, Deaspiration, Sonorant Devoicing, and Spirantization in Icelandic," Nordic Journal of Linguistics 22:137-156.
• 1999. "Variation in Finnish vowel harmony: An OT account," Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 17.2: 303-337. (With Orvokki Heinämäki.)