I am a research fellow and a PhD student at the Center for Advanced Studies in Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Tromsø in Tromsø, Norway. I received my specialist degree (roughly an MA) at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (OTiPL) of the Faculty of Philology, Moscow State University in Russia.
I specialize in phonology, particularly segmental phonology and consonant alternations. My main areas of interest concern the nature of phonological features and the division of labour in phonological theory. My PhD project is an in-depth comparative investigation of selected aspects of the phonology of four Brythonic Celtic varieties, with special attention to the rôle that representation plays in cross-linguistic variation even in computationally oriented frameworks such as Optimality Theory.
I have also worked on Russian, Friulian, Scottish Gaelic, Munster Irish, Fula, and Tswana, and on the use of typed feature structures to formalize phonological representations. I am also interested in applying functional programming techniques to solving problems in phonological theory, for which my language of choice is Common Lisp (though I have also dabbled in Haskell). Feel free to browse my BitBucket page (however, the linguistics stuff is not there yet).
Upcoming
I'm working on my thesis!
- I will present “Pitch accent” and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: historical implications at the 11th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics at the University of Freiburg.
Latest
- My paper Vowel reduction in Russian: no phonetics in phonology has been accepted to Journal of Linguistics. Download the preprint version at Munin
- I ran a short LATEX for linguists tutorial in mid-February; some files are on the Teaching page
- On January 20th, I presented "Explaining licensing mismatches in Welsh" at OCP8 in Marrakech
I'll be sure to put up more links here as the page actually grows (hopefully...)
Before you ask, anghyflawn is Welsh for 'incomplete' — at this point this should be self-explanatory
