Papers
The tone system of Poko-Rawo (Skou). Phonological Data and Analysis 3.1: 1-32. 2021.
Artistic adaptation of Seenku tone: Musical surrogates vs. vocal music. In Celebrating 50 years of ACAL: Selected papers from the 50th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. 2021.
On latent nasals in Samogo. Mandenkan 63.
Une illustration du système phonologique du seenku (French translation of 2019 JIPA Illustration).
The role of music in documenting phonological grammar: two case studies from West Africa. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting on Phonology 2018.
Seenku argument-head tone sandhi: allomorph selection in a cyclic grammar. Glossa 3.1: 1-41. 2019.
The talking balafon of the Sambla: grammatical principles and documentary implications. To appear in Anthropological Linguistics.
Tone-tune association in Tommo So (Dogon) folk songs. With Kevin Ryan. Language 94.1. 2018.
Morphosyntax of adjectives in Seenku [sos]. Mandenkan 57. 2017.
Cyclic spell-out and the interaction of Seenku tonal processes. Proceedings of 2016 Tonal Aspects of Language. 2016.
Multiple feature affixation in Seenku plural formation. Morphology 27.2. 2017.
Tone features revisited: evidence from Seenku (Mande, Burkina Faso). In Bosire and Payne (eds.) Selected Proceedings of ACAL 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Language Science Press. 2017.
On (ir)realis in Seenku (Mande, Burkina Faso). In Jason Kandybowicz and Harold Torrence (eds.), Africa’s Endangered Languages: Documentary and Theoretical Approaches. Oxford University Press. 2017.
Relating application rate to morphological distance: the case of Tommo So vowel harmony. With Bruce Hayes. Phonology 33.1. 2016. (Click here for supplemental materials.)
Phrasal grammatical tone in the Dogon languages: the role of constraint interaction. With Jeffrey Heath. NLLT 34, 2016. (Click here for supplemental materials.)
Cumulativity and ganging in the tonology of Awa suffixes. Language: Phonological Analysis. 2016. (Click here for supplemental materials.)
Tonosyntax and reference restriction in Dogon NPs. With Jeffrey Heath. Language 89.2: 265-296. 2013.
The structural origin of tonal overlays in Tommo So (Dogon) compounds. Journal of West African Languages 40.1. 2013.
The use of ‘liver’ in Dogon emotional encoding. With Kirill Prokhorov. In Encoding Emotions in African Languages (ed. Gian Claudio Batic). LINCOM Europa Studies in African Languages. 2011.
Descriptive work
A Grammar of Seenku. De Gruyter Mouton.
A Grammar of Tommo So. De Gruyter Mouton. (Click here for supplemental materials.)
Tommo So – English – French lexicon
Seenku lexicon. (In progress, check back for new versions)
Thesis work
Replacive grammatical tone in the Dogon languages. PhD dissertation, UCLA. 2014.
Tonal underspecification and interpolation in Tommo So. MA thesis, UCLA. 2011.
Selected handouts and slides
The talking xylophone of the Sambla: Seenku phonology in a speech surrogate system. Invited talk at Harvard University, April 29, 2016.
Tone features revisited: evidence from Seenku (Mande, Burkina Faso). Presented at ACAL 46, University of Oregon, March 2015.
Plural formation in Seeku (Mande, Burkina Faso). Colloquium at Boston University, March 2015.
Phrasal phonology, restructured: the place of Dogon tonosyntax. Invited talk at the Workshop on Grammatical Building Blocks, University of Leipzig, November 2014.
Hierarchical structure in Seeku verb paradigms. Presented at ACAL 45, Kansas University, April 2014.
A maxent model of tone-tune association in Tommo So songs. Presented at the 88th annual LSA, January 2014.