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• April 05, 2022. Discovering Cross-Linguistic Trends in Speech Errors: John Alderete feature
• November 23, 2021. Linguistics undergraduate Samantha Sundby expands her horizons through RAship
• June 23, 2021. Linguistics Honours BA grad Jane Li heading to PhD
• February 28, 2021. New Empirical Contributions to Cantonese Linguistics and Language Processing
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• June 11, 2020. Taking the MA outside of academia: Heikal Badrulhisham profile
• December 10, 2019. Fall 2019 Poster Session
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• October 02, 2019. Keynote talk at annual meeting of the Phonological Society of Japan
• July 17, 2019. Publication - Tone Slips in Cantonese

Publications

2025: The gender system of Tashlhiyt: Using supervised learning to predict noun gender
Alderete, John, Agarwal, Piyush, Holubowsky, Kaye, Jebbour, Abdelkrim.
Linguistic Analysis, 44, 3--53

2025: Evaluating ASR robustness to spontaneous speech errors: A study of WhisperX using a Speech Error Database
Alderete, John, Hui, Marcarious Kin Fung, Mohan, Aanchan.
Rotterdam

2025: Simon Fraser University Speech Error Database – English (SFUSED English): Methods and Design
Alderete, John.
Journal of Cognition, 8, (1), 28

2025: Open‑access network science: Investigating phonological similarity networks based on the SUBTLEX‑US lexicon
Alderete, John, Mann, Sarbjot, Tupper, Paul.
Behavior Research Methods, 57, 96

2024: Frequency Norms in Tashlhiyt: A Pilot Study
Alderete, John, Li, Jane SY, Ridouane, Rachid.
The Handbook of Berber Linguistics, edited by Alireza Korangy and Bensoukas, Karim, Springer Nature, Singapore, 443--454

2024: The variation, change, and opacity of tone neutralization in Cantonese: Its ‘Unity in variety’ and implications for tone representation
Tanaka, Shin-ichi, Alderete, John, Chan, Queenie.
Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan, 28, 175--189

2024: Simon Fraser University Speech Error Database (SFUSED) Cantonese: Methods, design, and usage
Alderete, John.
Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1270433

2024: Simon Fraser University Speech Error Database (SFUSED) – English.
Alderete, John.
Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC (Canada)

2023: Lexical and sub-lexical frequency effects in Cantonese
Li, Jane SY, Badrulhisham, Heikal, Alderete, John.
Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 21, 45--99

2023: Probabilistic phonology: A review of theoretical perspectives, applications, and problems
Alderete, John, Finley, Sara.
Language and Linguistics, 24, 565--610

2023: Digital Annotated Speech Error Bibliography
Alderete, John, Carson, Schütze.
Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University; Department of Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles

2023: A new corpus of lexical substitution and word blend errors: Probing the semantic structure of lemma access failures
Alderete, John, Baese-Berk, Melissa, Brasoveanu, Adrian, Law, Jess H. K..
Journal of Cognition, 26, 1--8

2022: Language generality in phonological encoding: Moving beyond Indo-European languages
Alderete, John, O'Seaghdha, Padraig G..
Language and Linguistics Compass, 16, (7)

2022: The morphology of Cantonese “changed tone”: Extensions and limitations
Alderete, John, Chan, Queenie, Tanaka, Shin-ichi.
Gengo Kenkyu, 161, 139--169

2022: Cross-linguistic trends in speech errors: An analysis of sub-lexical errors in Cantonese
Alderete, John.
Language and Speech, 66, 79--104

2021: Series shifts and mergers in the obstruent phonology of Tahltan (Northern Athabaskan)
Alderete, John, Blenkiron, Amber, Edōsdi (Thompson, Judith C.).
Linguistic Discovery, 17, 93--109

2021: Cascading activation in phonological planning and articulation: Evidence from spontaneous speech errors
Alderete, John, Baese-Berk, Melissa, Leung, Keith, Goldrick, Matthew.
Cognition, 210, 104577

2021: Nine Tashlhiyt texts: Structured representations of 18,000 words (First Release).
Jebbour, Abdelkrim, Boukous, Ahmed, El Alami, Abdelkrim, Li, Jane SY, Ridouane, Rachid, Alderete, John.
Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC

2021: Agreement errors and language production processes: Building a taxonomy of error types from spontaneous speech data
Alderete, John, Baese-Berk, Melissa, Li, Jane SY.
The Psychonomic Society

2020: Speech errors and phonological patterns: Insights from psycholinguistic and linguistic theory
Alderete, John.
Phonological Studies, 23, 77--90

2019: Tone slips in Cantonese: Evidence for early phonological encoding
Alderete, John, Chan, Queenie, Yeung, H. Henny.
Cognition, 191, 103952

2019: Investigating perceptual biases, data reliability, and data discovery in a methodology for collecting speech errors from audio recordings
Alderete, John, Davies, Monica.
Language and Speech, 62, (2), 281--317

2018: Phonological regularity, perceptual biases, and the role of phonotactics in speech error analysis
Alderete, John, Tupper, Paul.
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Cognitive Science, 9, (5)

2018: Connectionist approaches to generative phonology
Alderete, John, Tupper, Paul.
The Routledge handbook of phonological theory, edited by Anna Bosch and Hannahs, S. J., Routledge, New York, 360--390

2018: Simon Fraser University Speech Error Database (SFUSED) – Cantonese 1.0 (First release)
Alderete, John, Chan, Queenie.
Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC (Canada)

2017: Integrating sound symbolism with core grammar: The case of expressive palatalization
Alderete, John, Kochetov, Alexei.
Language, 93, 731--766

2017: Cantonese grammar synopsis
Alderete, John, Chan, Queenie, Chan, Macarius, Fan, Gloria, Nickel, Olivia.
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

2016: Gradient vowel harmony in Oceanic
Alderete, John, Finley, Sara.
Language and Linguistics, 17, 769--796

2015: Bringing it together: Implementing community-based Tahltan language revitalization research
Thompson, Judith, Dennis, Angela, Dennis, Odelia, Alderete, John.
Honolulu, Hawai'i

2015: Tashlhiyt Berber grammar synopsis
Alderete, John, Jebbour, Abdelkrim, Kachoub, Bouchra, Wilbee, Holly.
Technical report

2015: Reduplication in Rotuman: A curious case of emergent unmarkedness
Blenkiron, Amber, Alderete, John.
Capturing phonological shades within and across languages, edited by Yuchao E Hsiao and Wee, Lian-Hee, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, 266--290

2015: Reduplication in Hawaiian: Variations on a theme of minimal word
Alderete, John, MacMillan, Kayleigh.
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 33, 1--45

2015: Updating the analysis of Japanese compound accent
Alderete, John.
Short ‘schrift for Alan Prince, edited by Eric Baković

2014: Tahltan grammar synopsis
Alderete, John, Blenkiron, Amber.
Technical report

2014: What colours a letter? The deep learned structure of synaesthesia in two linguistic groups
Watson, Marcus R., Akins, Kathleen A., Chromý, Jan, Alderete, John, Hahn, Martin, Enns, James T..
The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 1139--1139

2014: Phonotactic learning without a priori constraints: Arabic root cooccurrence restrictions revisited
Alderete, John, Tupper, Paul, Frisch, Stefan A..
Proceedings of the 48th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, edited by Andrea Beltrama and Chatzikonstantinou, Tasos and Lee, Jackson L. and Pham, Mike and Rak, Diane, University of Chicago, Chicago, 1--16

2013: Phonological constraint induction in a connectionist network: Learning OCP-place constraints from data
Alderete, John, Tupper, Paul, Frisch, Stefan A..
Language Sciences, 37, 52--69

2013: Samoan root phonotactics: Digging deeper into the data
Alderete, John, Bradshaw, Mark.
Linguistic Discovery, 11, 1--21

2012: Samoan grammar synopsis
Alderete, John, Bradshaw, Mark.
Technical report

2011: Patterns and scales of expressive palatalization: Typological and experimental evidence
Kochetov, Alexei, Alderete, John.
Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 56, 345--376

2010: Similarity avoidance in processing consonants: Some apparent exceptions from Polynesian languages
Alderete, John, Sharkey, Dennis.

2009: Japanese mimetic palatalization revisited: impilcations for conflicting directionality
Alderete, John, Kochetov, Alexei.
Phonology, 26, 369--388

2009: Exploring recursivity, stringency, and gradience in the Pama-Nyungan stress continuum
Alderete, John.
Phonological argumentation, Essays on evidence and motivation, edited by Steve Parker, Equinox Publishing

2008: James Teit collection.
Alderete, John, Thompson, Judith.
Canadian Museum of Civilization Archives, Ottawa

2008: Why [h] and aspirated consonants are different in Korean
Kim, Lan, Alderete, John.
Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, 123--136

2008: An annotated bibliography of Tahltan language materials
Alderete, John, McIlwraith, Thomas.
Northwest Journal of Linguistics, 2, 1--26

2008: Community-based research: Tahltan place names
Alderete, John, McIllwraith, Thomas.

2008: Using learnability as a filter on computable functions: A new approach to Anderson and Browne's generalization
Alderete, John.
Lingua, 118, 1177--1220

2007: Tahltan Language and Culture CD Series. [23 CDs and associated manuscripts of linguistic questionnaire data, Tahltan folklore, and ethnographic accounts]
Alderete, John.
Archived with researcher at Simon Fraser University, elder participants, and band governments of British Columbia.

2007: A catalogue of the Tahltan Stories of Rose Dennis. [46 page document containing entries for 21 bilingual ethnographic and folkloric texts; entries include both linguistic and cultural notes, an English synopsis, and technical and legal information about the texts]
Alderete, John, McIllwraith, Thomas.
Simon Fraser University, Douglas College; band governments of British Columbia, Burnaby, BC

2007: Dissimilation in grammar and the lexicon
Alderete, John, Frisch, Stefan A..
The Cambridge handbook of phonology, edited by Paul de Lacy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 379--398

2007: Transcription of Old Woman and Rabbit Blanket Story, as told by Rose Dennis
Alderete, John.
Archived with research, Tahltan elders, and band governments of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

2005: A corpus-based approach to Tahltan stress
Alderete, John.
Athabaskan prosody, edited by Sharon Hargus and Rice, Keren, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 369--391

2005: On tone and length in Tahltan (Northern Athabaskan)
Alderete, John.
Athabaskan prosody, edited by Sharon Hargus and Rice, Keren, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 185--207

2005: Contrast Analysis Aids the Learning of Phonological Underlying Forms
Alderete, John, Brasoveanu, Adrian, Merchant, Nazarré, Prince, Alan, Tesar, Bruce.
Proceedings of the 24th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, edited by John Alderete and Han, Chung-Hye and Kochetov, Alexei, Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, 34--42