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Publications
Manuscrits / Manuscripts
ms (2025) Appendix to `English Irregular Verb Roots = Regular phonology: No allomorphy, no readjustment rules, no delayed spell-out required’ In Duygu Demiray, Roger Cheng-yen Liu, & Nir Segal (eds) Proceedings of NELS 55. GSLA Publications.
ms (2016) The shape of phonological rules, conspiracies, and the elsewhere condition (sous révision)
À venir / Upcoming
À paraître / To appear
à parraître Phases and Phonology. In In Nasukawa, K., B. Samuels, G. Schwartz and M. Törkenczy (eds.) The second edition of the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Phonology (PhonCom2).
à parraître (avec Craig Sailor) Minimalisim and the Syntax-Phonology Interface. In Kleanthes Grohmann and Evelina Leivada (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Minimalism and its applications. CUP
à parraître Phonological strata. In Artemis Alexiadou, Ruth Kramer, Alec Marantz & Isabel Oltra-Massuet (eds). The Cambridge Handbook of Distributed Morphology.
à paraître (probablement jamais) (avec Eva Dobler, Glyne Piggott, Tobin Skinner, Mina Sugimura et Lisa Travis). Narrow syntactic movement after Spell-Out. in the proceedings of Minimal Approaches to Syntactic Locality (MASL).
2025
2025 English Irregular Verb Roots = Regular phonology: No allomorphy, no readjustment rules, no delayed spell-out required. In Duygu Demiray, Roger Cheng-yen Liu, & Nir Segal (eds) Proceedings of NELS 55. GSLA Publications.
2025 (avec Camille Puel) The reduction of sentence-initial subject pronouns: Standard Canadian English. In Actes du Congrès de l’ACL 2025 -2025 CLA Conference Proceedings.
2023
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
2023 (avec Marie-Michèle Beausoleil) Laurentian French Affrication in External Sandhi: The Facts, and a CVCV Analysis. in the proceedings of the Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP).
2021
2021 Deriving Level 1/Level 2 affix classes in English : Floating vowels, cyclic syntax. . Acta Linguistica Academica 68(1-2): 31-76. https://doi.org/10.1556/2062.2021.00501
2021 Bracketing Paradoxes Resolved in The Linguistic Review 38(3).
2021 (avec Shanti Ulfsbjorninn) Phonological solutions to morphological problems. . Introduction to The Linguistic Review 38(3).
2019
2019 (avec Andréia DeSouza) Segmental Processes. The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages. Daniel Siddiqi, Michael Barrie, Carrie Gillon, Jason Haugen, et Eric Mathieu (eds). Routledge. NY.
2019 Bracketing Paradoxes in Morphology . The Oxford Encyclopedia of Morphology. Rochelle Lieber et. al. (eds.) Oxford University Press.
2018
2018 (with Maire Noonan) A Re-portage on spanning; Feature Portaging and Non-Terminal Spell-Out. In Moving A-Head: Linguistic Treats for Lisa Travis. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 21:2. Ileana Paul, Laura Kalin, and Jozina vander Klok (guest eds). 289-303.
2018 The syntax–phonology interface in Rule-Based Phonology Dans Bosch, A. & S. J. Hannahs eds. The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory. Routledge Handbooks in Linguistic Theory.
2018 (avec. G. Piggott & Lisa Travis) The Possessive Structure of Ojibwe: Support from Cupeño. dans les actes du Workshop on Structure and Consituency in the Languages of the Americas 2016. Megan Keough (ed.) UBC Working Papers in Linguistics.
2017
2017 (avec M. Noonan, G. Piggott, et L. Travis) The Structure of Words at the Interfaces. OUP.
2017 Nested Phase Interpretation and the PIC . Dans The Structure of Words at the interfaces. Newell, M. Noonan, G. Piggott, et L. Travis eds. OUP.
2017. (avec, M. Noonan, L. Travis, et G. Piggott) Introduction Dans The Structure of Words at the interfaces. Newell, M. Noonan, G. Piggott, et L. Travis eds. OUP.
2016
2016 (avec O. Kilbourn-Ceron, M. Noonan, & L. Travis) Phase Domains at PF: Root Suppletion and its Implications . in H. Harley & D. Siddiqi eds. Morphological Metatheory. Benjamins.
2015
2015 Phonology without Strata. in Vinerte, S. (ed). Actes du Congrès de l’ACL 2015 -2015 CLA Conference Proceedings.
2014
2014 (avec G. Piggott) Interactions at the syntax-phonology interface: Evidence from Ojibwe. Lingua. 150. p. 332-362.
2014 (avec M. Kozlowska et S. Springer) Actes de Congrès de la 2ème Meeting on English Language Teaching (MELT), (UQAM)
2013
2013 (avec M. Kozlowska et S. Springer) Actes de Congrès de la 1ère Meeting on English Language Teaching (MELT), (UQAM)
2008
2008 Aspects of the morphology and phonology of phases. Doctoral Dissertation. McGill University.
2006
2006 (avec G. Piggott) The Spell-Out of Lexical Categories Within Ojibwa Words. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics. 20:2. p. 39-64 2006
2006 (avec G. Piggott) The morphological control of phonology within Ojibwa lexical categories. Proceedings of the 37th Algonquian Conference. p. 269-289
2005
2005 The Phonological Phase. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics. 19:2. p. 22-64.
2005 Bracketing Paradoxes and Particle Verbs: A late Adjunction Analysis. In Sylvia Blaho, Luis Vicente & Erik Schoorlemmer (eds.). Proceedings of Console XIII. University of Leiden. ISSN: 1574-499X. p. 249-272.
2005 A Late Adjunction Solution to Bracketing Paradoxes. Proceedings of the 35th annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS). p. 451-462
2004
2004 (avec Y. Furukawa) McGill Working Papers in Linguistics. Vol 19.1
2004 (avec L. Barragan) Cupeño Morphology is(n’t) Inherently Stressful. Proceedings of the 32nd Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL). Vol. 15. 10-22.
2000
2000 Dialect topography of the golden horseshoe survey: Kingston and the vanishing isogloss between Canada and the US. In ed. E. Gold and J. McAlpine. Strathy Undergraduate Working Papers on Canadian English Vol 1. 72-81.
Présentations
2026
2026 Cross-linguistic pronoun reduction patterns and what thə’tell’əs about English. University of Chicago Morphology & Syntax Workshop.
2025
2025 No Phase Impenetrability Condition in the Phonology (and beyond) [basically the same talk as the one listed just below]. V-NYI Summer Institute Distinguished Linguist series.
2025 A penetrating look at locality in phonology. Workshop on Locality. Stony Brook.
2025. The reduction of sentence-initial subject pronouns : Standard Canadian English. Le 72e Congrès de l’Association canadienne de linguistique. McGill. with Camille Puel.
2025. French ‘du’ and ‘au’ ain’t portmanteau. Manchester Phonology Meeting (MfM). with Máire Noonan and Tom Leu.
2024
2024 `du’ and ‘au’ are not portmanteau. MoMot 2024. Carleton University. Avec Máire Noonan & Tom Leu.
2024 The Non-Linear Nature of English Past Tense Inflection. Réseau Français de Phonologie. Amiens.
2024 English Irregular Verbs Do Not Condition Allomorphy on T (or vice versa). Workshop on Myopia in Grammar. Universität Leipzig.
2024 Readjusting English Irregular Past Tense Morphology. Workshop On Morphology at Princeton. Princeton. É.U.
2024 An examination of the non-phonological nature of the Prosodic Hierarchy. McGill colloquium series. Montréal. Canada
2024 Who do we have to convince of the purpose and utility of History of Linguistics courses in the curriculum? Teaching History of Linguistics in the 21st Century NAAHoLS / LSA. New York. É.U.
2023
2023 Scheer, Tobias & Heather Newell. German articles and phase space. Brno (conference celebrating the habilitation of Pavel Caha). Masaryk University. République tchèque.
2023 The too many tools problem in phonology: Multiple Phonologies + Prosodic Hierarchy = unfalsifiable theories. Manchester Phonology Meeting (MfM). University of Manchester. Royaume-Uni.
2023 Crafting a Russian Doll: Phonological computation as an indicator of structural change. Externalizing Words: Mono- and Multilingual Perspectives (EXO Words Workshop). Pennsylvania State University. É.U.
2023 Newell, Heather & Shanti Ulfsbjorninn. Pied-fucking-Piping: English Expletives aren’t Infixes, but Stress is. Rencontre annuelle de la Canadian Linguistics Association / Association canadienne de linguistique (CLA/ACL). York University. Canada.
2023 Newell, Heather & Shanti Ulfsbjorninn. A Specific Fucking Pattern: The precise nature of stress-pivot infixation. North American Phonology Conference (NAPhCxii). Concordia University. Canada.
2022
2022 Newell, Heather & Craig Sailor. Inclusiveness, the Interface, and the Prosodic Hierarchy. Morpho-Syn Syndicate Speaker Series & Reading Group, Pennsylvania State University. É.-U.
2022 Scheer, Tobias & Heather Newell. German articles and Phase space. CASTL: The Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics. – The Arctic University of Norway. Norvège.
2022 Word formation: What is Syntax, what is Phonology?Morphology as Syntax workshop (MaS2). UCLA. É.-U.
2022 Beausoleil, Marie-Michèle & Heather Newell. Laurentian French Affrication within external sandhi: the facts, and a CVCV analysis. Annual Meeting on Phonology. AMP. UCLA. É.-U. Affiche.
2022 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. Affiche.
2021
2021 Morphology or Phonology. What gets spelled out? Morpho-Syn Syndicate Speaker Series & Reading Group, Pennsylvania State University. É.-U.
2021 Tamil pronominal allomorphy is neither allomorphy nor problematic. Wiener Sprachgesellschaft. University of Vienna. Autriche.
2021 The Morphophonology of Tamil Pronouns: A solution to a locality problem. Rencontre annuelle de la Canadian Linguistics Association / Association canadienne de linguistique (CLA/ACL). En ligne en raison de la pandémie de COVID-19. Canada.
2021 Tamil pronouns: how phonology solves a morphosyntactic problem. Manchester Phonology Meeting (MfM 28). University of Manchester. Royaume-Uni.
2021 Newell, Heather & Tobias Scheer. Function Words: Implications for the Syntax-Phonology Interface. Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP). Eivissa. Espagne.
2021 Newell, Heather & Craig Sailor. Inclusiveness in the phonology and the source of the Prosodic Hierarchy. Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics (BCGL 14): Where syntax and phonology meet. KU Leuven. Belgique.
2020
2020 Newell, Heather & Tobias Scheer. Function words : Implications for the syntax-phonology interface. Concordia Linguistics Student Association. Université Concordia. Canada.
2020 Newell, Heather & Tobias Scheer. Function word phonology: A lexical account. Centre for research in syntax, semantics and phonology (CRISSP). KU Leuven. Pays-Bas.
2019
2019 Bracketing Paradoxes : A Resolution. FishFeed. University of Tromsø. Oct 22/Nov 5. (This is a slightly modified version of a talk given below at MSU, Yale, UConn, and the MfM)
2019 Functional vs Lexical Structure without the Prosodic Hierarchy . Segmental Processes in Interaction with Prosodic Structure (SPIPS). University of Tromsø. 19-20 sept. 2019
2019 Bracketing Paradoxes and what they tell us about how to construct a theory of (morpho)phonology. Michigan State University. 21 févr.
2019 (with Maire Noonan) Feature Portage, Spell-Out and Multi-Morphemic Phonological Domains. . Connecting roots and affixes. Masaryk University. 13 mai.
2018
2018 The Nature of Phonological Domains. Linguistics Colloquium Series. Yale University. 22 oct.
2018 In support of Linear Phonology: What Bracketing Paradoxes tell us about how to construct a (Morpho)Phonological Theory. Linguistics Colloquium Series. University of Connecticut. 6 avril.
2018 There are no Bracketing Paradoxes, or How to be a Modular Grammarian. The annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA). University of Regina. 28-30 mai.
2018 In which bracketing paradoxes fall flat. Manchester Phonology Meeting (MfM 26). University of Manchester. May 24-26.
2018 There are no Bracketing Paradoxes, or How to be a Modular Grammarian. GLOW 41. Budapest. April 10-14.
2017
2017 What is a ‘Phonological Word’?. Workshop: “What is a word”. University of Zurich. 14-15 déc.
2017 Typological Tendencies in Phonological Conspiracies. Variation and universals in language: The implications of typological evidence for formal grammar. Crecchio Workshop. 9 juin.
2017 (avec Tobias Scheer) Prosodic domains: overthrowing the hierarchy. MfM 25. University of Manchester. 26 mai.
2017 What’s in a word? Canadian Linguistics Annual Undergraduate Symposium (CLAUSE). Concordia University. 7 avril.
2017 There Is No Word. Implications For The Phonology-Syntax Interface. GLOW 40. Leiden. March 14.
2017 Phonological Phrasing and Adjunction. MOT 2017. UQAM. March 25.
2016
2016 Phonological Affixation. The Word and the Morpheme. Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. 22-24 sept. (invited)
2016 (avec Markus Pöchtrager) The case of the missing possessive morpheme. MoMOT. Carleton University. Nov. 20
2016 (avec Markus Pöchtrager) An underlying (s)ɪ(n). Phonological Theory Agora : Meeting 3. Tours. 14 oct.
2016 The Ontology of English morpho-phonology. 24th Manchester Phonology Meeting (MfM). University of Manchester. 26-28 mai.
2016 (avec Glyne Piggott et Lisa Travis). Linking Syntax to Phonology in Possession. The annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA). University of Calgary. 28-30 mai.
2016 (avec Glyne Piggott et Lisa Travis). The Possessive Structure of Ojibwe: Support from Cupeño. Workshop on Structure and Consituency in the Languages of the Americas. UQAM. 2 avril.
2016 The Pathology of Level-Specific Morpho-Phonology. Montreal-Ottawa- Laval-Toronto Phonology Workshop (MOLT). Carleton University. 19 mars.
2016 (avec Glyne Piggott et Lisa Travis). The Phonology of Possession. Old World Conference in Phonology. Eötvös Loránd University and the Research Institute of Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. 14 janv.
2015
2015 Phonology without Strata. in Vinerte, S. (ed). Actes du Congrès de l’ACL 2015 -2015 CLA Conference Proceedings.
2015 Phase Shift. Spell-Out and the Syntax-Phonology Interface. Universitetet I Tromsø. 23 avril (invited)
2015 Being nitPICy. Phonological Theory Agora : Meeting 1. Lublin. 22 juin
2015 Implications of ‘Multi-Stratal’ Affixes. Approaches to Phonology and Phonetics (APAP). Maria Curie-Skldowska University, Lublin. 19-21 juin
2015 Phonology Without Strata. The annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA). University of Ottawa. 30 mai – 1er juin
2015 Illusory Strata. Montreal-Ottawa-Laval-Toronto Phonology Workshop (MOLT). University of Toronto. 14 mars
2015 Structural Sensitivity in Phonology : Phonological Persistence. Old World Conference in Phonology. Universitat de Barcelona. 30 janv.
2014
2014 One Repair Strategy or Two?: The Implications of Phonological Persistence. Carleton Speaker Series. Carleton University. 7 nov. (invited)
2014 Phonological Persistence. 8th North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC). Concordia University. 10 mai (invited)
2014 Pruning Phonological Tree Structure : An Argument Against Clear- Cutting. Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton Phonology Workshop (MOTH)/Montreal-Ottawa-Laval-Toronto Syntax Workshop (MOLT) : MO{L}T{H}. McGill University. 22 mai
2014 Representation and Linearization: Interface Issues. Reading Tobias Scheer. EHESS. Paris. Feb 6-8.
2014 Nested Phase Interpretation and the PIC. University College London Phonology Reading Group. 11 févr.
2013
2013 Ma grand-mère est possédée. Mercredis moins niaiseux. UQAM. 13 nov.
2013 Domaines phonologiques. Université Laval. 5 juin
2012
2012 Nested Phase Interpretation and the PIC. Exploring the Interfaces: Word Structure. McGill University. 6 mai (invited)
2011
2011 (avec Eva Dobler, Glyne Piggott, Tobin Skinner, Mina Sugimura, and Lisa Travis). Narrow syntactic movement after spell-out. Centro de Linguistica da Universidade Nova de Lisboa – Fórum Linguística da Nova
2009
2009 (avec Eva Dobler, Glyne Piggott, Tobin Skinner, Mina Sugimura et Lisa Travis). Narrow syntactic movement after Spell-Out. Minimal Approaches to Syntactic Locality (MASL). Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
2008
2008 (avec Eva Dobler, Glyne Piggott, Tobin Skinner et Lisa Travis). Features, phrase structure, and movement after Spellout. Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics (BWiTL08). University of Ottawa.
2007
2007 (avec Tobias Sheer) Procedural First. The Poznan Linguistic Meeting. Adam Mickiewicz University.
2006
2006 Semantically Vacuous Double Affixation: A PF Interface Effect. The 14th Manchester Phonology Meeting (MFM). Manchester University.
2006 (avec G. Piggott) Achieving explanatory adequacy: the form-meaning correlation in Ojibwa possessive constructions. The North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC) 4. Concordia University.
2006 Morpho-Phonological Imperfection: Double Affixation as a PF Interface Effect. The Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop (MOT). York University/University of Toronto.
2005
2005 (avec G. Piggott) The spell-out of lexical categories within Ojibwa words. The 37th Algonquian Conference. Carleton University.
2005 (avec G. Piggott) Morphologically-controlled phonology: The spell-out of lexical categories within words. The 13th Manchester Phonology Meeting (MFM). University of Manchester.
2005 (avec G. Piggott) Morphologically-controlled phonology: The spell-out of lexical categories within words. The Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop (MOT). McGill University.
2004
2004 The phonological Phase. The Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop (MOT). University of Ottawa.
2004 A late adjunction solution to bracketing paradoxes. The 35th conference of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS). University of Connecticut.
2003
2003 (avec L. Barragan) The Morpho-Syntax of Stress in Cupeño. Homecoming Graduate Research Exposition, McGill University. (affiche invité)
2003 (avec L. Barragan) Cupeño Morphology is Inherently Stressful. The 32nd Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL). University of Arizona.
2003 (avec E. Dobler and C. McCarthy) Case from Within: Inflected Infinitives in Hungarian and Portuguese. The Centre for Research on Language, Mind, and Brain (CRLMB). McGill University.
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