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Alan Prince
Board of Governors Professor of Linguistics
Ph.D., MIT 1975
Room 106, 18 Seminary Place
Vox 732-932-1632
Fax 732-932-1370
prince@ruccs.rutgers.edu
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Spring 2012
Phono II
QP Workshop
Phonology Seminar
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Office Hours
Tues 1:00-4:00pm
and by arrangement via email
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| Research Interests |
- Optimality Theory: its structure and applications
- Phonology and prosodic morphology
- Cognitive science of language, algorithmic learning
- Computational environments for linguistic theory
CV
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Downloadable Work
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- Prince, Alan and Bruce Tesar. 2012.
OTWorkplace Installer Package.
- OTWorkplace is a Excel-based environment for OT research which calculates, manipulates, and displays the essential objects of the theory.
- The Installer Package contains everything needed to support the program, including Graphviz, Ruby, RUBOT and OTWorkplace itself.
- Scripted in VBA and Ruby. Runs on Windows. 75MB zip file. Unzip and follow the README directions.
- •CT•RCD•HBFinder•DeDupe•FRed•SKB•
MIB•MinimalSupport•WhoWins•FactorialTypology•Hasse•And more!
- Brasoveanu, Adrian, and Alan Prince. 2011.
Ranking & Necessity: the Fusional Reduction Algorithm. NLLT 29:1, 3-70.
- Prince, Alan. 2010.
Counting Parses. 16pp. ROA-1118.
- An intellectual lark! --Anon.
- Prince, Alan. 2009. RCD - The Movie.
- Excel 2003 format. ROA-1057.i
- Excel 2007 format. ROA-1057.ii.
- Mac Excel 2004 format. ROA-1057.iii
- Prince, Alan. 2007.
Let the decimal system do it for you: a ridiculously simple utility function for OT.
13pp.
ROA-943
- Prince, Alan. 2007.
The Pursuit of Theory. 25pp.
- In Paul de Lacy, ed.,
Cambridge Handbook of Phonology.
- 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.
69pp. ROA-794.
- Prince, Alan, and Paul Smolensky. 2004.
Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative grammar.
If you follow the link, you'll find you have to pay for this one.
If not so inclined, try
ROA-537.
- 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, Nazarré 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. 25pp.
- 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. 17pp.
- Article for Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics.
- 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.
- Prince, Alan. 2000.
Comparative Tableaux. 20pp. ROA-376.
- Revised as Arguing Optimality. ROA-562.
- Samek-Lodovici, Vieri and Alan Prince. 1999. Optima. 58pp. ROA-363
- Prince, Alan and Bruce Tesar. 1999.
Learning Phonotactic Distributions. 32pp.ROA-353.
- Prince, Alan. 1998.
Two Lectures on Optimality Theory.
- Talks given at the 1998 Phonology Forum, Kobe.
- McCarthy, John and Alan Prince. 1997/99.
Faithfulness and Identity in Prosodic Morphology. 65pp. ROA-216.
- 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.
- Prince, Alan 1997. Elsewhere and Otherwise.
Glot International 2:1, 23-24. 7pp. ROA-217.
- Prince, Alan & John McCarthy. 1996.
Prosodic Morphology 1986. RuCCS-TR-32. Rutgers Center for Cognitive
Science. 100pp
- Prince, Alan. 1996.
Gradient Ascent in a Linear Inhibitory Network. 13pp.
RuCCS-TR-31, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science.
- 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. 137pp. ROA-60.
- In Jill Beckman, Suzanne Urbanczyk, Laura Walsh eds. UMOP-18: Papers in Optimality Theory.
- McCarthy, John & Alan Prince. 1994.
The Emergence of the Unmarked. 47pp. ROA-13.
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- 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. 262pp. ROA-537.
- McCarthy,John & Alan Prince. 1993a.
Prosodic Morphology: Constraint Interaction and Satisfaction.
RuCCS-TR-3. 196pp. ROA-482.
- McCarthy, John & Alan Prince. 1993b. Generalized Alignment. 69pp. ROA-7.
- 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. 100pp. RuCCS TR-1.
- Prince, Alan. 1990.
Quantitative Consequences of Rhythmic Organization. 34pp.
- In CLS 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.
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In Kiparsky & Youmans, eds.Rhythm and Meter, 45-80.
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Some copy-editor damage to the Urtext has been repaired, v. sec. 3.2.
- Pinker, Steven, and Alan Prince. 1988. On language and connectionism: Analysis of a Parallel Distributed model of of language acquisition. 121pp.
- Cognition 28, 73-193.
- Liberman, Mark and Alan Prince. 1977.
On Stress and Linguistic Rhythm.
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.
- Prince, Alan, and Ian Carruthers. 1968.
An Interview with John Barth. Prism. Montreal.
- 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
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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.
- I. Endogenous Constraints on Optimality Theory
- II. Stringency and Anti-Paninian Hierarchies
- III. Harmonic Completeness, AP order; Chain Shifts
- IV. TETU, GTH,and BC
- 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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