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photo: C.G. Prince
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Alan
Prince
Professor II
Ph.D., MIT 1975
Graduate Program Director
Room 106, 18 Seminary Place
Vox 732-932-1632
Fax 732-932-1370
prince@ruccs.rutgers.edu
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Spring 2009
Phonology II
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Office Hours
Mondays & Thursdays
By appointment via email.
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| Research
Interests |
- Optimality Theory
- Phonology -- prosodic structure, stress/accent,
metrics
- Prosodic morphology -- reduplication, truncation,
root-and-pattern, canonical forms
- Cognitive science of language, algorithmic learning,
connectionism and network models
CV
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Downloadable Work
Click on title for download or download info. PDF is the typical format.
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- Prince, Alan. 2007.
Let the decimal system do it for you: a ridiculously simple utility function for OT.
13pp.
ROA-943
- Prince, Alan and Bruce Tesar. 2008.
RUBOT
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Ruby-based program for performing OT calculations in Excel, under OTWorkplace, including FRed, producing inter alia the MIB and the Skeletal Basis.
- Prince, Alan. 2007.
The Pursuit of Theory. 25pp.
In Paul de Lacy, ed.,
Cambridge Handbook of Phonology.
- Prince, Alan. 2007-2009.
OT Workplace
0.9.7.2beta.(May, 2009). Now with a guide:
Using OTWorkplace.
Excel spreadsheet with scripts for performing the essential OT calculations. Runs
RUBOT.
- CT•RCD•HBFinder•DeDupe•FRed•SKB•MIB•
MinimalSupport•WhoWins•FactorialTypology
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- Prince, Alan. 2006. No More than Necessary:
beyond the 'four rules', and a bug report. 16pp. ROA-882.
- Prince, Alan. 2006. Implication & Impossibility in Grammatical Systems: What it is & How to find it. 61pp. ROA-880.
- Prince, Alan. 2006. Harmony at Base Omega:
Utility Functions for OT . 8pp. ROA-798.
- Brasoveanu, Adrian, and Alan Prince. 2005. Ranking &
Necessity. Part I. 44pp. ROA-794.
- Prince, Alan, and Paul Smolensky. 2004.
Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative grammar.
Note: If you follow the link, you'll find you have to pay for this one.
If not so inclined, try
here.
- Tesar, Bruce, and Alan Prince. 2003.
Using phonotactics to
learn phonological alternations.
Proceedings
of the Thirty-Ninth Conference of the Chicago Linguistics Society, Vol.
II: The Panels. ROA-620.
- Tesar, Bruce, and John Alderete, Graham Horwood, Nazarre
Merchant, Koichi Nishitani, and Alan Prince. 2003. Surgery in language
learning.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Second West Coast
Conference on Formal Linguistics. 477-490. ROA-619.
- Prince, Alan. 2002.
Arguing Optimality. In Coetzee, Andries, Angela Carpenter and Paul
de Lacy (eds). Papers in Optimality Theory II. GLSA, UMass.
Amherst. ROA-536.
- Prince, Alan. 2002. Anything Goes. In A New
Century of Phonology and Phonological Theory, ed. T. Honma, M.
Okazaki, T.
Tabata, & S. Tanaka. Kaitakusha: Tokyo. 66-90. ROA-536.
20pp. 216K/pdf.
- Prince, Alan and Paul Smolensky. 2002.Optimality Theory in Phonology.
Article for Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. 17pp.
200Kb/pdf.
- Samek-Lodovici, Vieri and Alan Prince. 2002. Fundamental Properties
of Harmonic Bounding. 35pp. RuCCS-TR-71. Updated as ROA-785.
- Prince, Alan. 2002.
Entailed Ranking Arguments. ROA-500. 117pp. 800K/pdf
- Prince, Alan. 2000. Comparative Tableaux.
Superseded by "Arguing Optimality," see above.
- Samek-Lodovici, Vieri and Alan Prince. 1999. Optima.
ROA-363. 58pp. 250K/pdf.
- Prince, Alan and Bruce Tesar. 1999.
Learning Phonotactic Distributions.ROA-353. 32pp. 224K/pdf.
- Prince, Alan. 1998. Two Lectures on
Optimality Theory. Talks given at the 1998 Phonology Forum,
Kobe. 99K/pdf.
- McCarthy, John and Alan Prince. 1997/99. Faithfulness and
Identity in Prosodic Morphology. ROA-216. 65pp.
In The Morphology- Prosody Interface,
(1999) eds. Harry van der Hulst, René Kager, and Wim Zonneveld.
pp. 218-309, Cambridge University Press.
- Prince, Alan and Paul Smolensky. 1997. Optimality:
From Neural Networks to Universal Grammar. Science 275,
1604-1610. 580K/pdf.
- Prince, Alan 1997. Elsewhere and Otherwise.
Glot International 2:1, 23-24. ROA-217. 7pp.
- Prince, Alan & John McCarthy. 1996. Prosodic Morphology
1986. RuCCS-TR-32. Rutgers Center for Cognitive
Science.100pp. PDF/560K.
- Prince, Alan. 1996. Gradient Ascent in a
Linear Inhibitory Network. RuCCS-TR-31, Rutgers Center for
Cognitive Science, 13pp. PDF/107K.
- Pinker, Steven & Alan Prince. 1996.
The nature of human concepts: evidence from an unusual source.
Communication and Cognition, 29, 307-361.
- McCarthy, John & Alan Prince. 1995. Faithfulness and
Reduplicative Identity. ROA-60. 137pp.
In Jill Beckman, Suzanne Urbanczyk, Laura Walsh eds. UMOP-18: Papers
in Optimality Theory.
- McCarthy, John & Alan Prince. 1994. The
Emergence of the Unmarked. ROA-13. 47pp.
In Mercè Gonzàlez, ed., NELS 24: Proceedings of [the
1993 meeting of] the Northeastern Linguistic Society, Vol. 2,
333-379. GLSA: Amherst, MA.
- Prince, Alan & Paul Smolensky.
1993. Optimality
Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar.
RuCCS-TR-2. ROA-537. 262pp.
- McCarthy,
John & Alan Prince. 1993a. Prosodic
Morphology: Constraint Interaction and Satisfaction.
RuCCS-TR-3. ROA-482. 196pp.
- McCarthy, John & Alan Prince. 1993b. Generalized Alignment.
ROA-7. 69pp.
In Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle, eds,Yearbook
of Morphology 1993, 79-153. Kluwer: Boston.
- Prince, Alan. 1993. In defense of
the number i : Anatomy of a linear dynamical model of
linguistic generalizations.. RuCCS TR-1. 100pp. PDF/1M.
- Prince, Alan. 1990.
Quantitative Consequences of Rhythmic Organization. 34pp.,
310Kb/pdf.
In CSL 26-II: Papers from the Parasession on the Syllable in Phonetics
and Phonology, ed. Karen Deaton, Manuela Noske, and Michael Ziolkowski,
355-398. Chicago: Chicago Linguistics Society.
- Prince, Alan. 1989.
Metrical Forms.
4.5Mb pdf scan of Kiparsky & Youmans, eds.Rhythm and Meter, 45-80.
Some copy-editor damage to the Urtext has been repaired, v. sec. 3.2.
- Liberman, Mark and Alan Prince. 1977.
On Stress and Linguistic Rhythm. 6.5M pdf scan.
LI 8.2, 249-336.
- Prince, Alan. 1976a.
Applying Stress.
The metrical theory of word-stress in ovo.
- Prince, Alan. 1976b.
Stress (section 6).
Revised version of part of the above, using moras and syllables.
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- Prince, Alan, and Ian Carruthers. 1968.
An Interview with John Barth. Prism. Montreal.
Note. Originally published under my name only. Ian Carruthers accompanied me, joined in the interviewing, and generally improved the experience.
A few decades in academia have sharpened my grasp of co-authorship; scissors and tape have done the rest.
- Alexander, B.H., Chung-Ja Choi, A.S.Prince, and M.H. Aldridge. 1967.
New Carbamates
and Related Compounds.Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data
12:1, 146-149.
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Some
Talks
Click on title for download of handouts in PDF.
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- The
Logic of Optimality Theory. SWOT, April 2003.
- Grammar
as Choice: conflict, concord, and optimality. (PPT). UCL
Center for Human Communication, April 2005.
- LSA Linguistic Institute at Cornell, 23 June- 2 July,
1997.
- Paninian
Relations. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, October 31,
1997.
- [Son of]
Paninian Relations. University of Marburg, March 17, 1998.
- The
Special and The General. Penn Linguistics Colloquium, February
26, 2000.
- Invariance
under Re-Ranking. WCCFL XX, held at USC, February 24,
2001.
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