Peter Graff

Dissertation

• Graff, Peter. 2012. Communicative Efficiency in the Lexicon. PhD Thesis, MIT. (please email me for a copy).

Journal articles

• Gibson, Edward, Evelina Fedorenko, Steven T. Piantadosi, and Peter Graff. Under revision. Presuppositional differences in quantified Antecedent-Contained-Deletion relative clauses: A reply to Hackl, Koster-Hale & Varvoutis (2011). Journal of Semantics.
• Jaeger, T. Florian, Daniel Pontillo, and Peter Graff. 2012. Comment on “Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa.” Science 335, 1042.
• Gallagher, Gillian, and Peter Graff. 2012. Introduction: The Role of Similarity in Phonology. In. Gillian Gallagher, Peter Graff, Michael Kenstowicz and Shigeto Kawahara (Eds.). Lingua 122 (SI Phonological Similarity), 107–111.
• Polinsky, Maria, Carlos Gomez Gallo, Peter Graff, and Ekaterina Kravtchenko. To appear. Subject Preference and Ergativity. In. Itziar Laka and Beatriz Fernandez (Eds.). Lingua 122 (SI Accounting for Ergativity), 267–277.
• Scontras, Gregory, Peter Graff, and Noah Goodman. 2012. Comparing Pluralities. Cognition 123, 190–197.
• Jaeger, T. Florian, Peter Graff, William Croft, and Daniel Pontillo. 2011. Mixed effect models for genetic and areal dependencies in linguistic typology: Commentary on Atkinson. Linguistic Typology 15, 281–320.

Book Chapters

• Polinsky, Maria, Carlos Gomez Gallo, Peter Graff, Ekaterina Kravtchenko, Adam M. Morgan, and Anne Sturgeon. In Press. Subject islands are different. In. Jon Sprouse and Norbert Hornstein (Eds.). Experimental Syntax and Island Effects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Edited volumes

• Graff, Peter and Coppe van Urk (Eds.). 2012. Chomsky's Linguistics. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.
• Gallagher, Gillian, Peter Graff, Shigeto Kawahara and Michael Kenstowicz (Eds.). 2012. Lingua 122 (SI Phonological Similarity), 107-176.

Conference proceedings

• Bane, Max, Peter Graff, and Morgan Sonderegger. To appear. Longitudinal Phonetic Variation in a Closed System. Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 46.
• Graff, Peter, and T. Florian Jaeger. 2009. Locality and Feature Specificity in OCP Effects: Evidence from Aymara, Dutch, and Javanese. Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 45. 127–141.

Conference presentations

• Graff, Peter, Zoe Snape, Jeremy Hartman, and Edward Gibson. 2013. Theory of Mind Drives Efficient Language Production. CUNY26.
• Graff, Peter, Paul Marty, and Donca Steriade. 2013. French Glides after C-Liquid: The Effect of Contrast Distinctiveness. LSA87.
• Marty, Paul, and Peter Graff. 2013. Cue Availability and Similarity Drive Perceptual Distinctiveness. LSA87.
• Marty, Paul, Peter Graff, Jeremy Hartman, and Steven Keyes. 2013. Biases in Word Learning: The Case of Non-myopic Predicates. LSA87.
• Scontras, Gregory, Peter Graff, Tami Forrester, and Noah Goodman. 2013. Context Sensitivity in Collective Predication. LSA87.
• Turnbull, Rory, Paul Marty, and Peter Graff. 2013. Complementary Covariation in Acoustic Cues to Place of Articulation. LSA87.
• Clemens, Lauren Eby, Jessica Coon, Peter Graff, Pedro Mateo Pedro, Adam Milton Morgan, Maria Polinsky, and Nicolas Arcos Lopez. 2012. Processing Ergative Languages: Methodology and Preliminary Results. LSA86.
• Graff, Peter. 2012. Languages Favor Perceptible Contrasts in Distinguishing Words: Evidence from Minimal Pairs. LSA86.
• Sonderegger, Morgan, Andrea Beltrama, Tasos Chatzikonstantinou, Erin Franklin, Brett Kirken, Jackson Lee, Maria Nelson, Krista Nicoletto, Talia Penslar, Hannah Provenza, Natalie Rothfels, Max Bane, Peter Graff, and Jason Riggle. 2012. Coronal Stop Deletion on Reality TV. LSA86.
• Sonderegger, Morgan, Andrea Beltrama, Tasos Chatzikonstantinou, Erin Franklin, Brett Kirken, Jackson Lee, Maria Nelson, Krista Nicoletto, Talia Penslar, Hannah Provenza, Natalie Rothfels, Max Bane, Peter Graff, and Jason Riggle. 2011. Coronal Stop Deletion on Reality TV. NWAV40.
• Graff, Peter. 2011. Perceptual dispersion in the lexicon. MidPhon17.
• Graff, Peter, and Jeremy Hartman. 2011. Constraints on Predication. SALT21.
• Graff, Peter, and Jeremy Hartman. 2011. Constraints on Predication. CLS47.
• Bane, Max, Peter Graff, and Morgan Sonderegger. 2011. A Corpus Study of Socially Mediated Language Change in Voice Onset Time. CUNY24.
• Graff, Peter, and T. Florian Jaeger. 2011. Similarity Avoidance Minimizes Interference in Language Processing. CUNY24.
• Bane, Max, Peter Graff, and Morgan Sonderegger. 2011. Phonetic Convergence among Reality Television Contestants. LSA85.
• Graff, Peter, Jeffrey Lim, and Sophie Monahan. 2011. The Determiner Complexity Hierarchy. LSA85.
• Scontras, Gregory, Peter Graff, and Noah Goodman. 2011. Plural Comparison and Collective Predication. LSA85.
• Scontras, Gregory, Peter Graff, and Noah Goodman. 2010. Comparing Pluralities. CLS46.
• Graff, Peter, and Gregory Scontras. 2010. Metathesis as Asymmetric Perceptual Realignment. WCCFL28.
• Graff, Peter, and Gregory Scontras. 2010. Metathesis as Asymmetric Perceptual Realignment. LSA84.
• Graff, Peter, and Andrew Nevins. 2009. Vowel Harmony Provides a Figure-Ground Relation for Consonant Phonotactics. MFM17.
• Graff, Peter, and T. Florian Jaeger. 2009. Optimizing Distinctiveness: Similarity Avoidance in the Mental Lexicon. CUNY22.
• Graff, Peter, Jacopo Romoli, Andrea Moro, and Jesse Snedeker. 2009. Exploring a Learning Bias against Non-Conservative Determiners. CUNY22.
• Graff, Peter, and T. Florian Jaeger. 2009. Modeling OCP Effects in the Javanese Lexicon. UCLA-UC Berkeley Conference on the Languages of Southeast Asia.
• Graff, Peter, and Benjamin Munson. 2009. Studying the Culture-Phonology Interface. LSA83.
• Graff, Peter, Kie Zuraw, and Kuniko Y. Nielsen. 2009. Investigating Preferential Imitation. LSA83.
• Graff, Peter, and Jenna Berkowitz. 2008. Phonotactic Generalizations Condition Alternation Learning. MFM16.