Adam Albright

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First Name

Adam

Last Name

Albright

Title

Professor of Linguistics

Office Phone

617-252-1472

Office Address

32-D830

E-mail

albright@mit.edu

Personal Homepage

Mailing Address

MIT Linguistics and Philosophy
77 Massachusetts Avenue, 32-D808
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

Research Interests

Phonology, Morphology, Language Acquisition, Computational Linguistics

Selected Publications

[in press] (with Yoonjung Kang) Predicting innovative variants in Korean verb paradigms. Proceedings of CIL18: The 18th International Congress of Linguists. John Benjamins.
[in press] Modeling analogy as probabilistic grammar. In Juliette Blevins, (ed.), Analogy in Grammar: Form and Acquisition. Oxford University Press.
[submitted] A restricted model of UR discovery: Evidence from Lakhota
[under revision] Base-driven leveling in Yiddish verb paradigms.
[in press] Lexical and morphological conditioning of paradigm gaps. In Curt Rice (ed.), When nothing wins: Modeling ungrammaticality in OT. Equinox Publishing
[2008] Inflectional paradigms have bases too: evidence from Yiddish. In Asaf Bachrach and Andrew Nevins (eds.) The Bases of Inflectional Identity. Oxford University Press.
[2008] Explaining universal tendencies and language particulars in analogical change. In Jeff Good (ed.) Language Universals and Language Change. Oxford University Press.
[2005] The morphological basis of paradigm leveling (Preprint version of paper that appears in Laura Downing, Tracy Alan Hall, Renate Raffelsiefen, eds., Paradigms in Phonological Theory . Oxford University Press )
[2004] Sub-optimal paradigms in Yiddish. In V. Chand, A. Kelleher, A. Rodríguez, and B. Schmeiser, eds., WCCFL 23 Proceedings (Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, pp. 1-14).
[2003] A quantitative study of Spanish paradigm gaps. In G. Garding and M. Tsujimura, eds., WCCFL 22 Proceedings (Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, pp. 1-14).
[2002] The identification of bases in morphological paradigms (UCLA dissertation)
[2002] Base selection in analogical change in Yiddish (In J. Larsen and M. Paster, eds., BLS 28, 1-13)