Pronouncing Pronouns : What pronominal variation tells us about the Human Language Faculty (CRSH 430-2023-00814) (2023-2025)
Publications
Newell, Heather & Tobias Scheer. in progress. Phonological theory and cliticization. In Diego Pescarini and Eulàlia Bonet (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Clitics. OUP.
Newell, Heather & Tobias Scheer. ms. Syntactic and phonological underspecification in function words : the case of English pronoun reduction. 2025.
Newell, Heather & Camille Puel. 2025 (in press) The reduction of sentence-initial subject pronouns: Standard Canadian English. In the Actes du Congrès de l’ACL 2025 -2025 CLA Conference Proceedings.
Newell, Heather. 2023. Tamil pronominal alternations are phonology not allomorphy. In Shen, Zheng & Laszakovits, Sabine (eds.). The size of things II: Movement, features, and interpretation. (Open Generative Syntax 13). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6458306
Presentations
Carrier, Emilie et Jeanne St-Cyr. 2025. Subject pronoun omission in Montreal French: A corpus analysis. Le 72e Congrès de l’Association canadienne de linguistique. McGill.
Newell, Heather & Camille Puel. 2025. The reduction of sentence-initial subject pronouns : Standard Canadian English. Le 72e Congrès de l’Association canadienne de linguistique. McGill.
Scheer, Tobias & Heather Newell. 2023. German articles and phase space. Brno (conference celebrating the habilitation of Pavel Caha). Masaryk University. République tchèque.
Scheer, Tobias & Heather Newell. 2022 German articles and Phase space. CASTL: The Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics. – The Arctic University of Norway. Norvège.
Laurin, Audrey & Heather Newell. Clitic pronouns in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS): Lexical representations do not include Prosodic Prespecification. Old World Conference on Phonology. OCP. Deusto. Pays basque.
Newell, Heather. 2021. Tamil pronominal allomorphy is neither allomorphy nor problematic. Wiener Sprachgesellschaft. University of Vienna. Autriche.
Newell, Heather. 2021. Tamil pronouns: how phonology solves a morphosyntactic problem. Manchester Phonology Meeting (MfM 28). University of Manchester. Royaume-Uni.
Newell, Heather & Tobias Scheer. 2021. Function Words: Implications for the Syntax-Phonology Interface. Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP). Eivissa. Espagne.
Newell, Heather & Tobias Scheer. 2020. Function words : Implications for the syntax-phonology interface. Concordia Linguistics Student Association. Université Concordia. Canada.
Newell, Heather & Tobias Scheer. 2020. Function word phonology: A lexical account. Centre for research in syntax, semantics and phonology (CRISSP). KU Leuven. Pays-Bas.
Newell, Heather. 2019. Functional vs Lexical Structure without the Prosodic Hierarchy . Segmental Processes in Interaction with Prosodic Structure (SPIPS). University of Tromsø. 19-20 sept. 2019
Courses
Newell, Heather. 2025. Pronominal phonology: Modularity and the interface. SFB Summer School on Pronouns at the PLUS. Salzburg.
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