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Ph.D. (May 1999) Specialization: phonology Secondary
areas: language acquisition, syntax
Dissertation: “Distinctiveness, Coercion and Sonority: A Unified
Theory of Weight” Advisor: Linda Lombardi Other
committee members: Paul Smolensky,
Laura Benua, Amy Weinberg, Rose-Marie Oster M.A.
(January 1997) Thesis:
“Markedness and Faithfulness Constraints on the Association of Moras: The
Dependency between Vowel Length and Consonant Weight” Advisor: Linda Lombardi B.A.
summa cum laude (May 1994) Major:
linguistics Minor: psychology Honor
societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and Golden Key National Honor Societies
Senior Researcher - Segmental Phonology
Project Leader Graduate
courses: Researcher - Segmental Phonology Project
Leader Graduate
courses: Summer school
courses: Assistant Professor of Linguistics
(visiting) Undergraduate
courses: Graduate
courses: Assistant Professor of Linguistics
(visiting) Graduate courses: Assistant Professor (visiting) Undergraduate courses: Phonetics Morphology (two semesters) Syntax Graduate courses: Articulatory Phonetics General Phonology Theoretical Phonology I (two semesters) Theoretical Phonology II Phonology seminar: Stress and Weight Lecturer
Undergraduate courses: Instructor
- Remedial Pronunciation Used the Technology Enhanced Accent Modification
system to help International Teaching Assistants improve their English
pronunciation. This software uses computer graphical analyses to
compare student speech with native speech, thus improving pronunciation using
segmental and prosodic visual cues in conjunction with audio feedback.
Evaluated the software as part of a grant from the Fund for the Improvement
of Post-Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Segmental
Phonology Project Leader Leader of the
CASTL segmental phonology project - Investigating the Nature of
Phonological Features. Grant Coordinator Coordinated a dissemination grant awarded by The
Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education to a consortium of
language laboratory directors from Georgetown University, The Catholic
University of America, The Johns Hopkins University and The University of
Maryland at College Park. Responsibilities included: overseeing grant
activities; scheduling meetings and workshops; writing proposals, reports,
and funding requests; and providing technical assistance to faculty using the
Technology Enhanced Accent Modification system and the Libra multi-media
authoring tool. Research Assistant Assisted in the planning, design, implementation,
and evaluation of several Population Information, Education and Communication
projects conducted in developing countries. Created code guides for interaction
analysis; performed qualitative and quantitative analysis; and prepared and
edited reports, presentations, and journal articles. Designed and
implemented an interpersonal communication and counseling relational
database. Administrative Assistant Assisted with the Kenya Provider-Client Interaction
Program evaluation. Reviewed, edited, and coded transcripts of
counseling sessions. Designed data entry screens and entered
data. Created tables and graphs for reports, journal articles, and
presentations. Electronics Technician/Customer Service
Representative United States Navy Received a Navy Achievement Medal for the planning
and supervision of a total reconfiguration of the communication spaces at the
Naval Oceanography Command Center, Rota, Spain. Familiar with all
aspects of troubleshooting data and voice grade circuits; isolating
transmission, equipment, and wiring problems; and patching circuit
configurations.
Ph.D. Advisor (25%) Ph.D. Advisor Ph.D. Advisor Ph.D. Dissertation Reader M.A. Thesis Second Reader Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Ph.D. Comprehensive Paper First Reader M.A. Comprehensive Paper First Reader Senior Honors Thesis Committee M.A. Research Paper Advisor M.A. Comprehensive Exam Reader
(Phonology) Ph.D. Oral Comprehensive Exam Committee Morén, B. (2007) The
Division of Labor between Segment-internal Structure and Violable
Constraints. In M. Krämer, P. Bye, and S. Blaho, eds., 'Freedom of
Analysis?'. [pre-published
PDF] Morén, B. and E. Zsiga
(2006) The Lexical and Post-lexical Phonology of Thai Tones. Natural Language and Linguistic
Theory 24, pp. 113-178. [PDF] Morén, B. (2006)
Consonant-Vowel Interactions in Serbian: Features, Representations and
Constraint Interactions. Lingua
116, pp. 1198-1244. [PDF] Morén, B. (2003)
Affricates, Palatals and Iotization in Serbian: Representational Solutions to
Longstanding Puzzles. In Erik Egeberg and Tore Nesset (eds.), Poljarnyj
Vestnik 6, pp. 46-70. Tromsø,
Norway. Morén, B. (2003) Weight
Typology: An Optimality Theoretic Approach. The Linguistic Review 20 “Typology in Phonology” special issue, pp.
281-304. [PDF] Morén, B. (2003) The
Parallel Structures Model of Feature Geometry. Working Papers of the
Cornell Phonetics Laboratory 15,
pp. 194-270. Ithaca, USA. [PDF] Miglio, V. and B. Morén.
(2003) Merger Avoidance and Lexical Reconstruction: An Optimality-Theoretic
Model of the Great Vowel Shift. In D. Eric Holt (ed.), Optimality Theory
and Language Change, pp. 191-228. Kluwer
Academic Publishers, The Netherlands. Fish, S., B. Morén, R.
Hoffmeister and B. Schick. (2003) The Acquisition of Classifier Phonology in
ASL by Deaf Children: Evidence from Descriptions of Objects in Specific
Spatial Arrangements. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Boston
University Conference on the Development of Language (BUCLD 27), Vol. 1, pp. 252-263. Cascadilla Press, Somerville,
USA. Morén, B. (2001) Distinctiveness,
Coercion and Sonority: A Unified Theory of Weight. Routledge Publishers, New York, USA. [pre-published
PDF] Morén, B. and E. Zsiga.
(2001) Markedness and Lexical Tone in Standard Thai: Phonetics and Phonology.
Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley
Linguistics Society (BLS 27).
Berkeley, USA. Morén, B. (2000) The Puzzle
of Kashmiri Stress: Implications for Weight Theory. Phonology 17.3, pp. 365-396. [PDF] Morén, B. and V. Miglio.
(2000) Issues in Icelandic Phonology: A Unified Approach. In Gudrún
Thórhallsdóttir (ed.), The Nordic Languages and Modern Linguistics. Vol. 10, pp. 155-168. Reykjavík, Iceland. Morén, B. (1999) Syllable
Weight Asymmetries in Distinctive and Coercive Environments. Proceedings
of the 29th Meeting of the Northeastern Linguistics Society (NELS
29). Morén, B. (1999)
Distinctive Moraicity in Two Hungarian Dialects. University of Maryland
Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol.
8, pp. 294-322. Maryland, USA. Morén, B. (1998) The Puzzle
of Kashmiri Stress. University
of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 7, pp.126-149. Maryland, USA. Morén, B. (1996) Markedness and
Faithfulness Constraints on the Association of Moras: A Look at Metropolitan
New York English. University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 4, pp. 125-151. Maryland, USA. INVITED TALKS Morén, B. (2007) Minimalist
Phonological Feature Theory: A beginning. Toronto School of Contrast
mini-course. Tromsø, Norway. [PDF] Morén, B. (2007) The
Parallel Structures Model: A Minimalist Phonological Feature Theory.
Department of English Linguistics and the Theoretical Linguistics Programme
at Eötvös Loránd University. Budapest, Hungary. Morén, B. (2007) The
Parallel Structures Model Approach to Hungarian Vowels. Department of English
Linguistics and the Theoretical Linguistics Programme at Eötvös Loránd
University. Budapest, Hungary. Morén, B. (2007) The
Parallel Structures Model Approach to Hungarian Consonants. Department of
English Linguistics and the Theoretical Linguistics Programme at Eötvös
Loránd University. Budapest, Hungary. Morén, B. (2006) Toward
Constructing a Minimalist Phonological Feature Theory. The Center for
Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics Colloquium Series. Tromsø, Norway.
[PDF] Morén, B. (2006) Selected
Issues in Lule Sami Phonetics and Phonology: What do we know and what do we
think we know? Sami Linguistics Symposium. Tromsø, Norway. [PDF] Morén, B. (2006)
Participant in the working group on Lule Sami language research. Conference
on Sami Language Research, Health and Social Research, and Culture and
Society Research in the Lule Sami Area. Árran Lule Sami Center, Drag, Norway. Morén, B. (2005) Danish
Stød and Eastern Norwegian Pitch Accent: Prosody, Morphology and Non-tonal
Lexical Specification. The 11th Meeting on the Norwegian Language
(11. møte om norsk språk - 11MONS), Bergen, Norway. [PDF] Morén, B. (2005) The
Division of Labor between Segment-internal Structure and Violable
Constraints. The Freedom of
Analysis in Phonology Workshop, Tromsø, Norway. Morén, B. (2005)
Scandinavian Tones: Back to Basics. Workshop on Tone and Intonation
(±Europe), Konstanz, Germany. [Note: I now disavow the use of
“Scandinavian” to refer exclusively to the North Germanic languages of
Scandinavia. The Sami languages
are not Germanic and yet properly belong to Scandinavia and thus are also
Scandinavian.] [PDF] Fish, S., Hoffmeister, R.,
Morén, B., & Allen, S. (2004) The Acquisition of Classifiers
in ASL by Deaf children: Evidence from Descriptions of Objects in Specific
Spatial Arrangements. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,
Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Morén, B. (2003) When
‘Tense’ is Lax and Lax is Long: A Phonetic and Phonological Investigation of
Front Vowels in Staten Island English. Department of Linguistics Speaker
Series, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA. Morén, B. (2002) Manner of
Articulation in Two Modalities: A Unified Approach. Applied Linguistics
Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Morén, B. (2002)
Phonological Theory: A Brief Review of Several Issues. Department of Modern
Foreign Languages and Literatures, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts,
USA. Morén, B. (1999) Typology, Optimality Theory and a
Unified Theory of Weight. Department of Linguistics Colloquium Series,
Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA. Morén, B. (2007) The
Importance of Detailed and Multifaceted Data in Analyzing Allomorphy. 15th
Manchester Phonology Meeting (MFM15), Manchester, England. [PDF] Morén, B. (2007)
Phonological Segment Inventories and their Phonetic Variation: a
substance-free approach. Workshop: Segment Inventories. Generative
Linguistics in the Old World (GLOWXXX), Tromsø, Norway. [PDF] Morén, B. (2007) Central
Swedish Pitch Accent: a retro approach. The fourth Old World Conference in
Phonology (OCP4), Rhodes, Greece. [PDF] Morén, B. (2006) How far
can we go toward substance-free phonological features and why? The
Phonological Bases of Phonological Features Workshop, Tromsø, Norway. Morén, B. (2006) A Planned Phonetic
and Phonological Study of Lule Sami. Seminar on Northern Norwegian Language
Relations (Seminar om nordnorske språkforhold), Tromsø, Norway. Morén, B. (2006) Looking
Beyond Harmony: a more complete picture of Hungarian vowels. 14th
Manchester Phonology Meeting (MFM14), Manchester, England. [PDF] Morén, B. (2006) “ATR”
Harmony in Ka$lç$N and Nez Perce
without [±ATR]: Abstraction, Economy and Primitives. The third Old World
Conference in Phonology (OCP3), Budapest, Hungary. [PDF] Morén, B. (2005) Danish
Stød and Eastern Norwegian Pitch Accent: The Myth of Lexical Tones. The 13th
Manchester Phonology Meeting (MFM13), Manchester, England. [PDF] Morén, B. (2005) The
Relationship between Here/Now and There/Then: Synchrony and Diachrony in
Peninsular Scandinavian Pitch Accent. Workshop: Synchrony meets Diachrony in
Phonology. Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW28), Geneva,
Switzerland. [Note: I now disavow the use of “Scandinavian” to refer
exclusively to the North Germanic languages of Scandinavia. The Sami languages are not Germanic
and yet properly belong to Scandinavia and thus are also Scandinavian.] [PDF] Morén, B. (2005) A Unified
Approach to Manner of Articulation in Signed and Spoken Languages. Annual
Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2005), San Francisco,
California, USA. [PDF] Morén, B. and T. Nessett.
(2005) Russian Softening Explained: Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology
Combined. The second Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP2), Tromsø,
Norway. Morén, B. (2004)
Interactions among Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology in Serbian: Explaining
Consonant-Vowel Interactions and Alternations. Annual Meeting of the Modern
Language Association (MLA 2004), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Morén, B. (2004) The
Phonetics and Phonology of Front Vowels in Staten Island English: When the
Traditional Descriptions and the Facts do not Agree. 9th
Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon9), Illinois, USA. [PDF] Morén, B. (2004) A Brief
Introduction to the Parallel Structures Model of Feature Geometry.
Reykjavík/CASTL Workshop, Reykjavík, Iceland. Morén, B. (2004) Accounting
for Serbian Consonant-vowel Interactions and Alternations Using the Parallel
Structures Model of Feature Geometry. 12th Manchester Phonology
Meeting (MFM12), Manchester, England. Morén, B. (2003) The
Parallel Structures Model of Feature Geometry: Some Manner/Major Class
Feature Acquisition Predictions. Acquisition of Grammar Workshop, Tromsø,
Norway. Morén, B. (2003) Featural
and Representational Economy: The Parallel Structures Model of Feature
Geometry. Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL)
Kick-off Conference, Tromsø, Norway. Morén, B. and E. Zsiga.
(2003) The Mora is the Tone-bearing Unit in Thai. Annual Meeting of the
Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2003), Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Fish, S., R. Hoffmeister,
S. Allen, B. Morén and B. Schick. (2003) The Acquisition of ASL Classifier
Morphology in Verbs of Location. American Association of Applied Linguistics
Annual Conference (AAAL 2003), Arlington, Virginia, USA. Fish, S., B. Morén, R.
Hoffmeister and B. Schick. (2002) The Acquisition of Classifier Phonology in
ASL by Deaf Children: Evidence from Descriptions of Objects in Specific
Spatial Arrangements. 27th Annual Boston University Conference on
Language Development (BUCLD27), Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Morén, B. and E. Zsiga.
(2001) Markedness and Lexical Tone in Standard Thai: Phonetics and Phonology.
27th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS27),
Berkeley, California, USA. Morén, B. (2000) Using
Optimality Theory to Re-examine the Nature of Typology: An Example from
Phonological Weight Theory. 4th Utrecht Biannual Phonology
Workshop, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, The Netherlands. Miglio, V. and B. Morén.
(2000) Language Change in OT: The Great Vowel Shift. 45th Annual
Meeting of the International Linguistics Association (ILA 2000), Georgetown
University, Washington, DC, USA. Morén, B. (1999) Moraic
Faithfulness Constraints and Violations of a ‘Universal’. Rutgers University/
University of Maryland Phonology Workshop, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Morén, B. (1998) Syllable
Weight Asymmetries in Distinctive and Coercive Environments. 29th
Meeting of the Northeastern Linguistics Society (NELS29), Newark, Delaware,
USA. Morén, B. (1998)
Distinctive Moraicity in Two Hungarian Dialects. Annual University of
Maryland Linguistics Student Conference, College Park, Maryland, USA. Morén, B. and V. Miglio.
(1998) A Unified Account of Icelandic Preaspiration and Spirantization. Xth
Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics, Reykjavík, Iceland. Morén, B. (1997) Vowel
Length and Consonant Weight Dependencies in Three English Dialects. Major
Varieties of English Conference (MAVEN), Växjö, Sweden. Morén, B. (1997) Stress and Weight
Dependencies in Kashmiri. 26th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics
Association of the Southwest (LASSO), Los Angeles, California, USA. Morén, B. (1997) Markedness
and Faithfulness Constraints on the Association of Moras: Vowel Length and
Consonant Weight in Three English Dialects. Hopkins Optimality Theory
Workshop/ University of Maryland Mayfest (H-OT97), Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Morén, B. (1997) A
Factorial Typology of Syllable Weight. Rutgers University/University of
Maryland Phonology Workshop, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. Morén, B. (1997) The Puzzle
of Kashmiri Stress. Annual University of Maryland Linguistics Student
Conference, College Park, Maryland, USA. Morén, B. (1997) Vowel
Length and Consonant Weight in Icelandic Stressed Syllables. Annual
University of Maryland Linguistics Student Conference, College Park,
Maryland, USA. Morén, B. (1996) A Re-analysis
of New York æ-Tensing: An OT Approach. Annual University of Maryland
Linguistics Student Conference, College Park, Maryland, USA. Morén, B. (1995) Emergence of the Marked:
The Acquisition of Phonology by Children. Annual University of Maryland Linguistics
Student Conference, College Park, Maryland, USA. Journal
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