Jeremy O'Brien
linguist
CV:
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Research interests:
Speech recognition
Mobile keyboard input
Phonetics and phonology
Debuccalization and lenition
Perception of consonants
Neutralization
Loanword phonology
Google AI publications page
Dissertation:
An experimental approach to debuccalization and supplementary gestures
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University of California, Santa Cruz, June 2012.
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Former Research Projects:
Phonology papers
Debuccalization and supplementary gestures
(2010). Qualifying Exam, UCSC.
Perception and English t-glottalization
(2010). Phonetics Qualifying Paper, UCSC.
Tone in Tuvan
(2010)
Italian Troncamento: the syntax-prosody interface and eurythmic effects
(2007)
Lexical Conservatism in Irish Prepositions
(2007)
Sonority Sequencing, Phonological Scales, and Russian Word Edges
(2006)
Consonants in Cantonese Loanword Adaptation
(2006), my Honors BA paper. It's a descriptive look at a
database
of Cantonese loanwords, comparing the data from our source to other people's work.
Foreign Consonants in Hindi
(2006).
Morphosyntax papers
Restrictions on English Possessors: An Extension of Distributed Morphology
(2009). Syntax Qualifying Paper, UCSC.
Handout for Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC), 2008
on the same topic.
Learning Inflectional Classes
with John Goldsmith (2007). Language Learning and Development 24(4): 219-250.
Computational phonology and morphology
Chicago Language Modeling Lab
(Research in 2006)
Dynamic Computational Networks
(Summer research 2005)
Linguistica
(Summer research 2004, 2005)
