Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics / Center for Cognitive Science
PhD., University of Colorado at Boulder, 1995

Office: Room 302, 18 Seminary Place, CAC
E-mail: <my_last_name> <at> rutgers <dot> edu
Phone, Linguistics Dept: 732-932-7289

Office Hours for Spring 2013: Mondays 1-2 pm, or by appt.

My research focuses on human language learning, primarily in phonology. My primary obsession for the last several years has been the learning of phonological underlying forms.

Recent Activity

Tesar, Bruce. When worst is best: Grammar construction in phonological learning. Talk at NELS43, Oct. 21, 2012.

Tesar, Bruce. Output-driven maps in phonology. Talk at NAPhC7, May 4, 2012.

Akers, Crystal. 2012. Commitment-Based Learning of Hidden Linguistic Structures. Doctoral Dissertation, Rutgers University, New Brunswick. 446 pages.

Tesar, Bruce. 2012. Learning Phonological Grammars for Output-Driven Maps. In The Proceedings of NELS 39.

Tesar, Bruce. Expressing (most of) Phonotactic Knowledge as Contrast. Talk at NECPhon5, Oct. 15, 2011.