Associate Professor of Linguistics
Ph.D. 1996. (Cognitive Science), M.A. 1994 (Cognitive Science), Johns Hopkins; M.S. 1992. (Computer Science), Purdue University; B.A. 1990 (Computer Science), National University of Patras, Greece.

Email:

Personal Homepage: https://files.nyu.edu/ag63/public/index.html

Research Interests:

Phonology, phonetics, morphology, learnability.

Fellowships/Honors:

GLOW International Summer School in Linguistics (Lecturer); The Leonardo Fibonacci Institute Fellowship, Trento, Italy (Research fellowship); National Fellowships Institute Award, Greece.

Selected Works:

Selected Publications

By area: phonology/ phonetics, phonology/ morphology, computational/ mathematical

To appear, Shaw, J., Gafos, A., Hoole, P., Zeroual, C. Temporal evidence for syllabic structure in Moroccan Arabic: data and model Phonology 26.

To appear, Gafos, A., Hoole, P., Roon, K., Zeroual, C. Variation in timing and phonological grammar in Moroccan Arabic clusters. Laboratory Phonology 10: Variation, Detail and Representation, Ed. Cécile Fougeron (Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin/New York).

2007, Articulatory characteristics of Hungarian transparent vowels. Journal of Phonetics 35 (3), 271-444. [with Stefan Benus]

2006, Dynamics of phonological cognition. Cognitive Science [2005 Rumelhart Prize Special Issue Honoring Paul Smolensky: Optimization and Grammar in the Cognitive Science of Language] 30 (5), pp. 905-943. [with Stefan Benus]

2006, Dynamics in Grammar: Comment on Ladd and Ernestus & Baayen. Laboratory Phonology 8: Varieties of Phonological Competence, Eds. Goldstein, M. L., Whalen, D. H. and Best, C. (Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin/New York), pp. 51-79 [peer-reviewed]. The author's ms. was Dynamics: the non-derivational alternative to modeling phonetics-phonology.

2005, Qualitative and quantitavive aspects of vowel harmony: a dynamics model. CogSci2005, XXVII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Stresa, Italy, 2005), Eds. Bruno G. Bara, Lawrence Barsalou & Monica Bucciarelli. pp. 226-231. Lawrence Erlbaum, New Jersey, USA. [with Stefan Benus]

2004, Phonetics and phonology of transparent vowels in Hungarian. Proceedings of the 29th Annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, Eds. Nowak, P., Yoquelet, C. and Mortensen, D., pp. 485-497. [with Stefan Benus and Louis Goldstein]

2003, On neutral vowels in Hungarian. 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences [15th ICPhS, Barcelona 2003], Eds. Solé, M.-J., Recasens, D. and Romero, J. (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain), pp. 77-80. [with Stefan Benus]

2002, A grammar of gestural coordination. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20:2, pp. 269-337.

1999, The articulatory basis of locality in phonology. Garland, Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics, New York. (272 pp.)

1999, Consonant transparency and vowel echo. In P. Tamanji, M. Hirotani, and N. Hall (eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the North Eastern Linguistics Society, pp. 81-96, GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. [with Linda Lombardi]

1998, Eliminating long-distance consonantal spreading. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 16:2, pp. 223-278. An earlier version is 1995, "On the Proper Characterization of Non-Concatenative Languages," Ms., 60pp. (Baltimore, MD: Dept. of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins).

1997, A cross-sectional view of [s], [sh], and [th]. In K. Kusumoto (ed.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Meeting of the North Eastern Linguistics Society, pp. 127-141, GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

In press, Stem (uncorrected proofs). In Mushira Eid, Alaa Elgibali, Kees Versteegh, Manfred Woidich, and Andrzej Zaborski (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics (EALL), Brill Academic Publishers: Leiden. [invited paper]

2003, Greenberg's asymmetry in Arabic: a consequence of stems in paradigms. Language 79:2, pp. 317-357.

2001, Morphosyntactic features and paradigmatic uniformity in two dialects of Lesvos. Journal of Greek Linguistics 2, pp. 41-73. [with Angeliki Ralli]

1998, A-templatic reduplication. Linguistic Inquiry 29, pp. 515-527.

1992, Against a contextual definition of head in morphology: evidence from Modern Greek compounds. In A. Kathol and J. Beckman (eds.) MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 16, Papers from the Fourth Student Conference in Linguistics, pp. 41-56.

to appear, Kirov, C. and A. Gafos. Assembling phonological representations. In: Phonological Systems and Complex Adaptive Systems: Phonology and Complexity, (Eds.) Ioana Chitoran, Christophe Coupé, Egidio Marsico, & Francois Pellegrino. Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin/New York.

2007, Kirov, C. and A. Gafos. Dynamic phonetic detail in lexical representations. In: Trouvain, Jürgen and William J. Barry (eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences [16th ICPhS], Saarbrücken, Germany, August 2007. pp. 637-640.

2006, Dynamics in grammar: comment on Ladd and Ernestus & Baayen. Laboratory Phonology 8: Varieties of Phonological Competence, Eds. Goldstein, M. L., Whalen, D. H. and Best, C. (Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin/New York), pp. 51-79 [peer-reviewed]. The author's ms. was Dynamics: the non-derivational alternative to modeling phonetics-phonology.

2002, Training spaces and generalization: evidence from Hebrew word-formation. Cognition 83:2, pp. 113-139. [with Iris Berent, Gary Marcus and Joseph Shimron]

1994, Phonotactics and the lexicon: beyond bootstrapping. In Eva Clark (ed.), Proceedings of the 1994 Stanford Child Language Research Forum, pp. 11-21, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [with Michael Brent]

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