Publications

Adamantios I. Gafos, Phil Hoole, Kevin Roon, and Chakir Zeroual. in press. Variation in timing and phonological grammar in Moroccan Arabic clusters. In Cecile Fougeron (ed.), Laboratory Phonology X: Variation, Detail and Representation, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin/New York.

Gouskova, Maria and Kevin Roon. 2009. Interface Constraints and Frequency in Russian Compound Stress. In Jodi Reich, Maria Babyonyshev, and Darya Kavitskaya (eds.), Formal Approach to Slavic Linguistics 17: The Yale Meeting 2008, Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications.

Davidson, Lisa and Kevin Roon. 2008. Durational correlates for differentiating consonant sequences in Russian. Journal of the International Phonetic Association (38), 137-165. Copyright Cambridge University Press.

Roon, Kevin, Gafos, Adamantios, Philip Hoole, and Chakir Zeroual. 2007. Influence of Articulator and Manner on Stiffness. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbruecken, Germany.

Roon, Kevin. 2006. Stress in Russian compound nouns: Head dominance or anti-faithfulness? In James E. Lavine, Steven Franks, Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva, and Hana Filip (eds.), Formal Approach to Slavic Linguistics 14: The Princeton Meeting 2005, Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications. (This version differs from and is preferable to the printed version).

Conference Presentations

24 October 2009. Roon, Kevin and Adamantios Gafos. Modeling phonetic detail and reaction times in a cue-distractor task. Northeast Computational Phonology Meeting 3, MIT. Oral presentation given by me.

01 August 2008. Roon, Kevin, Adamantios Gafos, Phil Hoole, and Chakir Zeroual. Obligatory Release, Stiffness Modulation, and Relativized Place Order. Workshop on Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity, IPS - University of Munich, Munich, Germany. Poster presented by me.

01 July 2008. Roon, Kevin, Adamantios Gafos, Phil Hoole, and Chakir Zeroual. Obligatory Release, Stiffness Modulation, and Relativized Place Order. Laboratory Phonology XI, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. Poster presented by me.

09 May 2008. Gouskova, Maria and Kevin Roon. Interface Constraints and Frequency in Russian Compound Stress. Formal Approach to Slavic Linguistics 17: The Yale Meeting. Oral presentation given by Maria Gouskova. (see publications for paper)

08 August 2007. Roon, Kevin, Adamantios Gafos, Phil Hoole, and Chakir Zeroual. Influence of Articulator and Manner on Stiffness. 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbruecken, Germany. Oral presentation given by me. (see publications for paper)

01 December 2006. Davidson, Lisa and Kevin Roon. Acoustic cues for distinguishing consonant sequences in Russian. Poster presented jointly at the Fourth Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu.

29 June 2006. Gafos, Adamantios, Philip Hoole, Kevin Roon, and Chakir Zeroual. Variation in timing and phonological grammar in Moroccan Arabic clusters. Oral presentation given by me at Laboratory Phonology X, Paris. (see publications for paper)

06 May 2005. Roon, Kevin. Stress in Russian compound nouns: Head dominance or anti-faithfulness? Oral presentation given at Formal Approach to Slavic Linguistics 14: The Princeton Meeting. (see publications for paper)

Professional Associations
Acoustical Society of America
Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Linguistic Society of America

Teaching Experience
Fall 2008. TA for Freshman Honors Seminar in Phonology, "From Moving Articulators to Sound Structure", NYU (Diamandis Gafos, professor)
Spring 2007. TA for Language and Mind, NYU (Liina Pylkkänen and Brian McElree, professors)
Fall 2006. TA for Freshman Honors Seminar in Phonology, "From Moving Articulators to Sound Structure", NYU (Diamandis Gafos, professor)
Spring 2005. TA for Language and Society NYU (John Singler, professor)
Fall 1988-Spring 1990. Russian drill instructor, Dartmouth College
Fall 1987-Winter 1988. Spanish drill instructor, Dartmouth College

Manuscripts
August 2007. Prefixed bound roots and lexical access in auditory word processing. 2nd qualifying paper, NYU. Committee: Alec Marantz (chair), Liina Pylkkänen, Maria Gouskova.
August 2007. Two different types of echo questions in English
December 2006. Stiffness and articulatory overlap in Moroccan Arabic consonant clusters. 1st qualifying paper, NYU. Committee: Diamandis Gafos (chair), Lisa Davidson, Maria Gouskova.
December 2004. Number agreement within Russian numeral phrases
December 2004. Acoustic Analysis of /r/ Production of British Speakers in New York

Service
Co-organizer (with Lisa Davidson) of Ultrafest IV at NYU, 28-29 September 2007
Treasurer, LANYU. 2005-2006

Personal
I grew up in northwest New Jersey (I have near-merged my low back vowels), going to northern New England to study. After that I moved to Connecticut to embark on a career in computer consulting--first doing database application development, then web development specializing in internationalization of web applications. I have now returned to pursue my longstanding interest in human language.

Non-linguistic interests: skiing/ski racing, cooking, wine, airplanes/flying, beach volleyball, singing

"That's all very fine in practice, but how does it work in theory?" attrib. Garrett FitzGerald