Under review. “Accent and tone: the double origin of the Paicî prosodic system”. [Latest draft available as lingbuzz/008033]

To appear. “Multilingualism, identity, and language endangerment in southern Chad: The case of the Middle Chari area”. Under revision for Evgeniya Gutova and Alireza Korangy (eds.), Multilingualism, identity, and language endangerment in Africa, Springer. [final draft]

Accepted. “Tonal languages without tone: Downstep in Drubea and Numèè (Oceanic, New Caledonia)”. To appear in Phonology. [Latest draft available as lingbuzz/007926]

2024. “Severing register from tone: The case for underlying downstep.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting on Phonology 2024 (AMP 2024), Rutgers University, 1-3 November 2024. [slides]

2024. “ATR harmony in Fanya (Bua, Chad)”. Paper presented at the 55th meeting of the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 55), McGill University,Montreal, 2-4 May 2024.

2023. (with Hirosi Nakagawa, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Daniel Auer, Anne-Maria Fehn, Linda Ammann Gerlach, Tom Güldemann, Sylvanus Job, Florian Lionnet, Christfried Naumann, Hitomi Ono, and Lee J. Pratchett. “Towards a phonological typology of the Kalahari Basin Area languages”. Linguistic Typology 27(2): 509–535. DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2022-0047

2022. (with Laura McPherson, and Nicholas Rolle). “Theoretical Approaches to Grammatical Tone”. Phonology 39(3), Special Issue: Theoretical Approaches to Grammatical Tone, pp. 385–398. DOI: 10.1017/S0952675723000179

2022. “The features and geometry of tone in Laal”. Phonology 39(2): 251–292. DOI: 10.1017/S0952675723000040

2022. “Tone and downstep in Paicî (Oceanic, New Caledonia)”. Phonological Data and Analysis 4(1): 1-47. DOI: 10.3765/pda.v4art1.45

2022. “Subtonal features in a three-tone language: Evidence from Laal”. In Peter Jurgec, Liisa Duncan, Emily Elfner, Yoonjung Kang, Alexei Kochetov, Brittney K. O’Neill, Avery Ozburn, Keren Rice, Nathan Sanders, Jessamyn Schertz, Nate Shaftoe, and Lisa Sullivan (eds.), Proceedings of the 2021 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2021). Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America. DOI: 10.3765/amp.v9i0.5136

2022. “Tons et structure prosodique en paicî (Nouvelle-Calédonie) / Tone and prosodic structure in Paicî (New Caledonia)”. In Anne-Laure Dotte, Stéphanie Geneix-Rabault, and Suzie Bearune (eds.), Uane nore nodei lanengoc – Penser les langues – Thinking about languages: Actes de la 11ème Conférence de Linguistique Océanienne – Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Oceanic Linguistics (COOL 11), p.47-68, Nouméa: Presses Universitaires de la Nouvelle Calédonie. Proceedings URL: https://unc.nc/uane-nore-nodei-lanengoc/. [lingbuzz/007087]

2021. “The gender system of Laal”. STUF - Language Typology and Universals 74(2): 241-262. DOI: 10.1515/stuf-2021-1031 [preprint: lingbuzz/005867]

2021. “Clicks as areal verbal gestures in West and Central Africa (and beyond?)”. Paper presented at the 10th World Congress on African Linguistics, 7-11 June2021, Leiden University. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/DFZME.

2020. “Paralinguistic use of clicks in Chad”. In Bonny Sands (ed.), Click Consonants, pp. 422-437. Leiden: Brill. DOI: 10.1163/9789004424357_015 [lingbuzz/006925]

2020. “The colon as a separate prosodic category: Tonal evidence from Paicî (Oceanic, New Caledonia)”. In Richard Stockwell, Maura O’Leary, Zhong-shi Xu, and Z.L. Zhou (eds.). Proceedings of the 36th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 36). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/36/abstract3469.html

2020. (with Pascal Boyeldieu, Raimund Kastenholz, and Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer). “The Bua Group noun class system: Looking for a historical interpretation”. Language in Africa 1(3), 180-214. DOI: 10.37892/2686-8946-2020-1-3-181-2151

2020. “Kulaale (Chad) – Language Snapshot”. Language Documentation and Description 17: 126-133. London: EL Publishing. DOI: 10.25894/ldd103

2020. “Paralinguistic use of clicks in Chad”. In Bonny Sands (ed.), Click Consonants, pp. 422-437. Leiden: Brill. DOI: 10.1163/9789004424357_015 [also available at lingbuzz/006925]

2020. (with Larry Hyman, Hannah Sande, Nicholas Rolle, and Emily Clem). “Prosodic systems : Niger-Congo and Adjacent Areas”. In Gussenhoven, Carlos and Aoju Chen (eds.), Handbook of Prosody. Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198832232.013.11

2019. (with Larry Hyman and Christophère Ngolele). “Number and Animacy in the Teke noun class system”. In Samson Lotven, Silvina Bongiovanni, Phillip Weirich, Robert Botne, Samuel Gyasi Obeng (eds.), African linguistics across the disciplines: Selected papers from the 48th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. 89–102. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3520573

2019. (with Nicholas Rolle). “Phantom structure: a representational account of floating tone association”. In Hyunah Baek, Chikako Takahashi, and Alex Hong-Lun Yeung (eds.), Proceedings of the 2019 Annual Meeting on Phonology. DOI: 10.3765/amp.v8i0.4744

2019. (with Larry M. Hyman, Nicholas Baier, Emily Clem, Peter Jenks, John Merrill, Nicholas Rolle, and Hannah Sande). “Niger-Congo linguistic features and typology”. In Ekkehard Wolff (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/9781108283991.009

2018. “Phonological teamwork in Kalahari Basin languages”. Africana Linguistica 54: 75-97. DOI: 10.2143/AL.24.0.3285492

2018. (with Pascal Boyeldieu, Raimund Kastenholz, and Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer). “The Bua Group languages (Chad, Adamawa 13): A comparative perspective”. In Raija Kramer and Roland Kießling (eds.), Current Approaches to Adamawa and Gur Languages, Afrika und Übersee Supplements, Vol. 34. Cologne: Köppe. 53-126. [pdf]

2018. (with Larry Hyman). “Current Issues in African Phonology”. In Tom Güldemann (ed.), The Languages and Linguistics of Africa. The World of Linguistics Series (Hans Henrich Hock ed.), Vol. 11. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 602-708. DOI: 10.1515/9783110421668-006

2017. “A theory of subfeatural representations: the case of rounding harmony in Laal.” Phonology, 34(3): 523-564. DOI: 10.1017/S0952675717000276 [preprint available at lingbuzz/004001]

2017. (with Nicholas Rolle and Matthew Faytak). “The distribution of Advanced Tongue Root harmony and interior vowels in the Macro-Sudan Belt”. In Patrick Farrel (ed.), Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 2, 10:1-15. DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v2i0.4058

2017. "Evidentiality and modality in Laal reported speech". Paper presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT 12), Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 12-15 December 2017. [slides]

2017. "Stem-initial prominence in West and Central Africa: Niger-Congo, areal, or both?". Paper presented at the 48th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 48), Indiana University, Bloomington 30 March - 2 April 2017. [slides]

2016. Subphonemic Teamwork: A Typology and Theory of Cumulative Coarticulatory Effects in Phonology. Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, Berkeley. [pdf]

2015. “Phonological teamwork as quantal markedness” In the Proceedings of the 33rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics Poster Session (Simon Fraser University Working Papers in Linguistics) (WCCFL 33). SFU Linguistics Graduate Student Association. 76-85. [pdf]

2015. "More than reported speech: quotative evidentiality in Laal". Paper presented at the 8th World Congress on African Linguistics (WOCAL 8), Kyoto University, 21-24 August 2015. [slides]

2014. “Doubly Triggered Harmony in Laal as Subphonemic Agreement by Correspondence”. In John Kingston, Claire Moore-Cantwell, Joe Pater and Robert Staubs (eds.), Proceedings of the 2013 Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2013). Linguistic Society of America Online Conference Proceedings. DOI: 10.3765/amp.v1i1.38

2014. “Demonstrative and relative constructions in Ju: A diachronic account”. In Tom Güldemann and Anne-Maria Fehn (eds.), Beyond ‘Khoisan’: Historical Linguistic Relations in the Kalahari Basin. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 181-209. DOI: 10.1075/cilt.330.07lio [also available at lingbuzz/006924]

2014. “Lucy Lloyd’s !Xuun notebooks: towards an edition and linguistic analysis”. In Janette Deacon and Pippa and Skotnes, The courage of ||kabbo: Collected papers from the conference celebrating the 100th anniversary of ’Specimens of Bushman folklore’. Cape Town: UCT Press. 169-184. [preprint]

2012. (with Larry Hyman). “Metatony in Abo (Bankon, A42)”. In Michael R. Marlo, Nikki B. Adams, Christopher R. Green, Michelle Morrison, and Tristan M. Purvis (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics: African Languages in Context. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/42/abstract2753.html