Research

Research Interests

My research interests lie in phonology and phonology’s interfaces with phonetics and morphology. I pursue my research questions through experimentation, corpus studies, and elicitation with native speaker consultants. My specific interests include:

  • Synchronic biases in phonological learning
  • Tonal adaptation in loanword phonology
  • Lexically conditioned phonetic variation
  • Tone and reduplication in Efik
  • Segmental phonology of Logoori (Maragoli)

Theses

2019 Bias in Phonotactic Learning: Experimental Studies of Phonotactic Implicationals. Dissertation. UCLA. [pdf]

2015 Tonal Assignment in English Loanwords in Mandarin Chinese. M.A. thesis. UCLA. [pdf]

Publications

Glewwe, E. (2022). Substantive bias and the positional extension of major place contrasts. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 7(1), 1-37. https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.6537.

Glewwe, E. (2021). The phonological determinants of tone in English loanwords in Mandarin. Phonology, 38(2), 203-239. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0952675721000154.

Glewwe, E. (2019). Efik nominal tonal alternations as phrasal morphology. In S. Lotven, S. Bongiovanni, P. Weirich, R. Botne, & S. G. Obeng (Eds.), African linguistics across the disciplines: Selected papers from the 48th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (Contemporary African Linguistics 5), 71-88. Berlin: Language Science Press.

Glewwe, E. (2019). Substantive bias in phonotactic learning: Positional extension of an obstruent voicing contrast. In Proceedings of CLS 53 (2017), 103-116. Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistic Society. [pdf]

Glewwe, E. (2017). An OT Analysis of Efik Contrastive Verbal Reduplication. In K. Jesney, C. O’Hara, C. Smith, & R. Walker (Eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, D.C.: Linguistic Society of America. https://doi.org/10.3765/amp.v4i0.3976.

Glewwe, E. & Aly, A. (2016). Coronal palatalization in Logoori. In D. L. Payne, S. Pachiarotti, & M. Bosire (Eds.), Diversity in African Languages: Selected Papers from the 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (Contemporary African Linguistics 1), 165-183. Berlin: Language Science Press.

Glewwe, E. (2016). Tonal adaptation in English loanwords in Mandarin: A corpus study. In Proceedings of CLS 51 (2015), 197-211. Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistic Society. [pdf]

Glewwe, E. (2014). Developing a Phonological/Morphological Model to Predict the Gender of French Nouns. Ms. UCLA. [pdf]

Invited Talks

2022 Mandarin Tonal Adaptation: How English Loanwords in Mandarin Get Tone, Grinnell College

2020 Bias in the Learning of Sound Patterns: An Experimental Investigation, Centre for Language Evolution, University of Edinburgh

2020 Bias in the Learning of Sound Patterns: An Experimental Investigation, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (see Carleton College talk)

2019 Bias in the Learning of Sound Patterns: An Experimental Investigation, Grinnell College (see Carleton College talk)

2019 Bias in the Learning of Sound Patterns: An Experimental Investigation, Carleton College

2018 Complexity Bias and Substantive Bias in Phonotactic Learning, Phorum, UC Berkeley

Conference Presentations

2021 The Phonological Determinants of Tone in English Loanwords in Mandarin, Poster at CLS 57, University of Chicago

2019 Complexity Bias and Substantive Bias in Phonotactic Learning, Talk at LSA 2019, New York City (see more comprehensive Phorum talk handout)

2018 Complexity Bias and Substantive Bias in Phonotactic Learning, Poster at the Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 6), UC San Diego [handout] (see more comprehensive Phorum talk handout)

2018 Lexical Competition, Vowel Duration, and the English Word-Final Voicing Contrast, Poster at LabPhon 16, Universidade de Lisboa [handout]

2018 The effect of lexical competition on vowel duration before voiced and voiceless English stops, Poster at the 175th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis [handout]

2018 (with Jesse Zymet, Jacob Adams, Rachel Jacobson, Anthony Yates, Ann Zeng, and Robert Daland) Substantive Bias and the Acquisition of Final (De)voicing Patterns, Poster at WCCFL 36, UCLA [handout]

2018 Equal Learning of Natural and Unnatural Phonotactics, Poster at LSA 2018, Salt Lake City [handout]

2018 (with Jesse Zymet, Jacob Adams, Rachel Jacobson, Anthony Yates, Ann Zeng, and Robert Daland) Substantive bias and the acquisition of final (de)voicing patterns, Talk at LSA 2018, Salt Lake City

2017 Substantive Bias in Phonotactic Learning: Positional Extension of Place and Voicing Contrasts, Talk at the Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 5), New York University

2017 Substantive Bias in Phonotactic Learning: Positional Extension of an Obstruent Voicing Contrast, Talk at CLS 53, University of Chicago

2017 Analytic Bias in Phonotactic Learning: Extension of an Obstruent Voicing Contrast, Poster at the 2nd Southern California Meeting on Phonology, UCLA

2017 Efik Nominal Tonal Alternations as Phrasal Morphology, Talk at the 48th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Indiana University

2016 An OT Analysis of Efik Contrastive Verbal Reduplication, Poster at the Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 4), University of Southern California [handout]

2016 Logoori Hiatus Resolution: A New Analysis, Poster at the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, UC Berkeley [handout]

2015 Tonal Assignment in English Loanwords in Mandarin Chinese, Talk at CLS 51, University of Chicago

2015 (with Ann Aly) Palatalization in Logoori, Talk at the 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Oregon