John D. Alderete, Associate Professor

Linguistics and Cognitive Science
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Dr
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada

MY SURNAME @sfu.ca

Teaching Page          fonokag          Short CV

Research Areas

  • Computational learning algorithms and modelling of language acquisition/development
  • Levels of explanation in cognitive science, from neural networks to symbolic grammars
  • Theoretical phonology and morphology, Optimality Theory
  • Austronesian languages, including Hawaiian and Samoan
  • Creation of rich linguistic datasets, corpora, and lexicons

Publications
NEW! 2011. Kochetov, Alexei and John Alderete. 2011. Patterns and scales of expressive palatalization: Typological and experimental evidence. To appear in Canadian Journal of Linguistics, comments welcome!
NEW! 2011. Alderete, John,  Paul Tupper, and Stefan A. Frisch. 2011. Phonotactic learning without a priori constraints: Arabic root cooccurrence restrictions revisited. Downloadables: data supplement, software supplement. Ms., comments welcome!
2010. Alderete, John. Exploring recursivity, stringency, and gradience in the Pama-Nyungan stress continuum. In Parker, Steve (ed.), pp. 181-202, Phonological argumentation. Essays on evidence and motivation. London: Equinox Publishing.
2009. Alderete, John and Alexei Kochetov. Japanese mimetic palatalization revisited: implications for conflicting directionality.  Phonology 26: 369-388. Data supplement: spreadsheet for the database.
2008. Alderete, John. Using learnability as a filter on computable functions: a new approach to Anderson and Browne's generalization. Lingua 118: 1177-1220.
2008. John Alderete and Tad McIlwraith. An annotated bibliography of Tahltan language materials. In the Northwest Journal of Linguistics 2: 1-26.
2008. Lan Kim and John Alderete. Why [h] and aspirated consonants are different in Korean. In the Proceedings of the first International Conference of East Asian Linguistics, Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 28, pp. 123-136, Toronto: University of Toronto Department of Linguistics.
2007. John Alderete and Stefan Frisch. Dissimilation in grammar and the lexicon. In Paul de Lacy, (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology, pp. 379-398. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2005. John Alderete. On tone and length in Tahltan (Northern Athabaskan). In Sharon Hargus & Keren Rice (eds.), Athabaskan prosody, pp. 185-207. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2005. John Alderete and Tanya Bob. A corpus-based approach to Tahltan stress. In Sharon Hargus & Keren Rice (eds.), Athabaskan prosody, pp. 369-391. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2005. John Alderete, Adrian Brasoveanu, Nazarré Merchant, Alan Prince, and Bruce Tesar. Contrast analysis aids the learning of phonological underlying forms. In John Alderete, Alexei Kochetov, and Chung-hye Han (eds.), Proceedings of the 24th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, pp. 34-42. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
2005. John Alderete, Chung-hye Han, and Alexei Kochetov (Editors). Proceedings of the 24th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
2003. John Alderete. Structural disparities in Navajo word domains: A case for lex-cat faithfulness. The Linguistic Review 20: 111-158. Data supplement: prefix data (spreadsheet), notes on spreadsheet
2003. John Alderete. Phonological processes: Dissimilation. In William Frawley (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd Edition, pp. 323-324. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2003. Bruce, Tesar, John Alderete, Graham Horwood, Koichi Nishitani, Nazarre Merchant, Alan Prince. Surgery in language learning. In Gina Garding and Mimu Tsujimura (eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 22, pp. 477-490. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2003. Katherine, Crosswhite, John Alderete, Tim Beasley, and Vita Markman. Morphological effects on default stress placement in novel Russian words. In Gina Garding and Mimu Tsujimura (eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, pp. 151-164. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2002. John Alderete and Bruce Tesar. 2002. Learning covert phonological interaction: An analysis of the problem posed by the interaction of stress and epenthesis. Report no. RuCCS-TR-72, Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science.
2001. John Alderete. Root-controlled accent in Cupeño. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 19: 455-501.
2001. John Alderete. Dominance effects as transderivational anti-faithfulness. Phonology 18: 201-253.
2001. John Alderete. Morphologically governed accent in Optimality Theory. Routledge publishing series, Outstanding dissertations in Linguistics. New York: Routledge.
2000. John Alderete. Prosodic faithfulness in Cupeño. In Elena Benedicto (ed.), University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers 20, Indigenous languages, pp. 1-27. Amherst: Graduate Linguistic Student Association
2000. John Alderete. The prosodic morphology of iteratives in Jamaican Creole. In Elena Benedicto (ed.), University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers 20, Indigenous languages, pp. 29-50. Amherst: Graduate Linguistic Student Association. [Revised 1993 Masters paper from the University of California, Santa Cruz]
1999. John Alderete, Jill Beckman, Laura Benua, Amalia Gnanadesikan, John J. McCarthy, and Suzanne Urbanczyk. Reduplication with fixed segmentism. Linguistic Inquiry 30: 327-364.
1999. John Alderete. Head dependence in stress-epenthesis interaction. In Ben Hermans & Marc van Oostendorp (eds.), The derivational residue in phonological Optimality Theory, pp. 29-50. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [Reprinted in John McCarthy (ed.), Optimality Theory in phonology: Selected readings, pp. 215-227. Oxford: Blackwell]
1998. John Alderete. Canonical types and noun phrase configuration in Fijian. In Matt Pearson (ed.), UCLA Occasional Papers in Linguistics 21, Proceedings of the third and fourth meetings of the Austronesian Formal Linguistic Association (AFLA III-IV), pp. 19-44. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
1997. John Alderete. Dissimilation as local conjunction. In Kiyomi Kusumoto (ed.), Proceedings of North East Linguistic Society 27, pp. 17-31. Amherst: Graduate Linguistic Student Association. [Reprinted in John McCarthy (ed.), Optimality Theory in phonology: Selected readings, pp. 394-406. Oxford: Blackwell]
1995. John Alderete. Faithfulness to prosodic heads. Rutgers Optimality Archive, Report No. 94.
1995. John Alderete. Winnebago Accent and Dorsey’s Law. In Jill Beckman, Laura Walsh-Dickey, & Suzanne Urbanczyk (eds.), University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers 18, Papers in Optimality Theory, pp. 21-51. Amherst: Graduate Linguistic Student Association.