Areas of Specialty:
- Linguistics
- Phonological Theory
- Dialectology and Dialect Studies
- Celtic languages, especially Scottish Gaelic
- Romance languages, especially French
Selected Publications:
- Review of The Syllable: Views and Facts, edited by Harry van der Hulst and Nancy Ritter. Journal of Linguistics 38, 2002, 168-172.
- "The Syllable in Scottish Gaelic Dialect Studies," Scottish Gaelic Studies XVIII, 1998, 1-22.
- "Syllables and Supersyllables: Evidence for Low Level Phonological Domains." (with Kenneth de Jong) Texas Linguistic Forum 41: Exploring the Boundaries Between Phonetics and Phonology, 1998, 1-14.
- "Transcription and Representation in Scottish Gaelic Dialect Studies," Orbis 39, 1997, 79-89.
- "Prominence at Two Levels: Stress versus Pitch Prominence in North Welsh," The Journal of Celtic Linguistics 5, 1997.
- "The Prosody of Barra Gaelic Epenthetic Vowels" (with Kenneth de Jong) Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 27, 1997, 1-15.
- "Syncope and Epenthesis in Scottish Gaelic: Rules and Phonotactics." Proceedings from the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Formal Linguistics Society of Midamerica, 1994, 35-47.
- Spatial Prepositions: A Case Study from French. (Translator) A translation of L'Espace en Français, by Claude Vandeloise (1986). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. (265pp.)

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