Jason Anthony Shaw
Status: PhD candidate
Contact: j a s o n . s h a w@ n y u . e d u
Current TA assignment: Phonological Analysis |
taught by Adamantios Gafos
Office hours: Monday, 1-3pm
I can also be found in room 700, the Ph-Lab.
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Research interests:(laboratory) phonology, morphology, acoustic/articulatory phonetics, learnability, non-native speech production/perception, language contact General: My research is focused on understanding sound patterns in natural language by studying the cognitive processes which shape them, including perception, production and mental representation. The goal is to develop a formal model of a speaker's demonstrated knowledge of his/her native language which allows us to predict linguistic behavior across the wide range of contexts in which humans use language productively. Dissertation: My dissertation, 'The temporal organization of syllable structure', argues that structural relations characteristic of syllables are temporal in nature. This claim is supported with analysis of articulatory data from Moroccan Arabic and English, languages claimed to parse similar strings into different syllable structures. I develop a computational model to instantiate the main theoretical claim. The model simulates temporal data allowing for a quantitative evaluation of competing syllabic structures. Results show that the syllabic parses which best fit the articulatory data correspond as well to parses claimed on the basis of metrical patterns.
Languages I've worked on: Chuukese, English, Japanese, Komi, Korean, Moroccan Arabic, Mortlockese, Swiss German
I am also affiliated with Haskins Laboratories where I am a research assistant for Adamantios Gafos.
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Journal articles Shaw, J.A., A. Gafos , P. Hoole, C. Zeroual. 2009. Syllabification in Moroccan Arabic: evidence from patterns of temporal stability in articulation. Phonology 26, 187-215. (pre-publication version) L. Davidson, Shaw, J.A., T. Adams. 2007. The effect of word learning on the perception of non-native consonant sequences. JASA 122:6, 3697-3709 (paper)
Other publications Shaw, J.A. 2009. Compensatory lengthening via mora preservation in OT-CC: theory and predictions. proceedings of NELS 38 (handout) (paper) Shaw, J.A. 2007. /ti/~/tSi/ Contrast preservation in Japanese loans is parasitic on segmental cues to prosodic structure. proceedings of ICPhS XVI (paper) Shaw, J.A. 2006. Learning a stratified lexicon. proceedings of NELS 36 (paper)
Selected conference presentations 2008. Temporal stability as an index of syllable structure: data and model. presented with A. Gafos at the Northeast Computational Phonology Meeting 2007. A theory of structure mapping in loanwords. presented at: Experimental approaches to OT (handout)
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726 Broadway, 7th Floor, Room 707 New York, NY
10003, USA
email: jason.shaw@nyu.edu
phone: 212-992-8615
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