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Shelece EASTERDAY

Post-doctoral researcher

My research interests include phonological typology, language change, and linguistic complexity. I am particularly interested in rare and/or complex phonological phenomena, and investigate these in samples that include language families and regions which are traditionally underrepresented in our field.

I graduated from University of New Mexico in May 2017 with a Ph.D. in linguistics. My dissertation, entitled "Highly complex syllable structure: a typological study of its phonological characteristics and diachronic development," is a cross-linguistic study investigating the properties of and motivations behind rare syllable patterns in which long sequences of consonants occur.

At DDL I am working on a project entitled A typological investigation of the role of morphology in syllable complexity. This project explores interactions between morphology and syllable patterns in a diverse language sample, with the aim of addressing how different morphological processes and strategies may contribute to both synchronic variation in syllable complexity and the diachronic development of complex phonotactics.

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Easterday, S., 2019, "Highly complex syllable structure: A typological and diachronic study", 9, Berlin, Language Science Press, 616 p., Studies in Laboratory Phonology, 978-3-96110-194-8  (Open access from Language Science Press)  (Couverture)

Easterday, S., 2017, "Highly complex syllable structure: a typological study of its phonological characteristics and diachronic development", Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico (Available from UNM Digital Repository)

Easterday, S., Stave, M., Tang, M. & Seifart, F., 2021, "Syllable complexity and morphological synthesis: A well-motivated positive complexity correlation across subdomains", Frontiers in Psychology, 12, pp. 583 (doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.638659)

Bybee, J. & Easterday, S., 2019, "Consonant strengthening: a crosslinguistic survey and articulatory proposal", Linguistic Typology, 23:2, pp. 263-302 (Licensed access)

Easterday, S., 2019, "Manner of articulation patterns in word-initial biconsonantal sequences: The effect of morphological context.", proc. of 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 05/08/2019-09/08/2019, Calhoun; Escudero; Tabain; Warren, S. (ed), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019., pp. 1124-1127 (Available here)

Easterday, S., Timm, J. & Maddieson, I., 2011, "The effects of phonological structure on the acoustic correlates of rhythm."17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, August 17-21, pp. 623-626 (Available here)

Easterday, S., 2019, "Phonotactic complexity in interaction with other systems of language structure: some crosslinguistic patterns", Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, January 16

Easterday, S., 2018, "Phonotactic complexity and morphology: a typological perspective", Department of World Cultures, University of Helsinki, 17 December

Chousou-Polydouri, N., van Dam, K., Inman, D., Vuillermet, M., Easterday, S., Rose, F. & Bickel, B., 2021, "Mapping linguistic areas: a preliminary case study in South America", SALSA, University of Virginia, 29 juin 2021

Chousou-Polydouri, N., Inman, D., Vuillermet, M., van Dam, K., Easterday, S. & Rose, F., 2021, "Is there a typological profile of isolates ?", SLE, online, 1er septembre 2021

Diaz Montenegro, E. & Easterday, S., 2019, "In search of the origin of complex phonotactic patterns in Spanish loanwords in Nasa Yuwe", Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of America, New York City, USA, 3-6 January, 2019

Easterday, S., 2018, "A crosslinguistic test of two common phonological generalizations: Underrepresented languages yield some unexpected patterns", 16èmes Rencontres du Réseau Français de Phonologie, Paris, France, June 27-28

Easterday, S., 2018, "Syllable typology and syllable-based typologies: Findings from the extremes of phonotactic complexity", Representing Phonotactics, satellite workshop of 16th Conference of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, Lisbon, Portugal, June 19-23