Publications

Books

Papers

  • Walker, Rachel. (To appear). Harmonia nasal [Nasal harmony]. Tópicos na Estrutura Sonora das Línguas Indígenas Sulamericanas. Uma Introdução à Análise Fonológica [Introduction to the Phonological Analysis of Indigenous Languages of South America], ed. by Emerson Carvalho, Cláudio Couto, Stella Telles, and Leo Wetzels.

  • Walker, Rachel & Yifan Yang. (To appear, 2024). Consonant phonotactics in the Moenat variety of Ladin. Italian Journal of Linguistics.

  • Kaplan, Aaron & Rachel Walker. (To appear, 2024). What constitutes privileged positions? Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony, ed. by Nancy Ritter & Harry van der Hulst. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Yang, Yifan, Rachel Walker, Alessandro Vietti & Armin Chiocchetti. (2021). Illustration of the IPA: Ladin, varieties of Val di Fassa. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 52, 496–520. doi:10.1017/S0025100320000262. Preprint of version accepted for publication [pdf]  [For the definitive version, please see the published article. © Cambridge University Press on behalf of the International Phonetic Association.]

  • Walker, Rachel. (2020). Gradient activity in Korean place assimilation. Proceedings of the North East Linguistics Society 50, Vol 3, ed by Mariam Asatryan, Yixiao Song & Ayana Whitmal, pp. 207–220. Amherst: GLSA. [pdf]

  • Wei Wei & Rachel Walker. (2020). A lookahead effect in Mbe reduplication: Implications for Harmonic Serialism. Linguistic Inquiry 51, 845–859. [pdf]

  • Proctor, Michael, Rachel Walker, Caitlin Smith, Tünde Szalay, Louis Goldstein & Shrikanth Narayanan. (2019). Articulatory characterization of English liquid-final rimes. Journal of Phonetics 77. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2019.100921 Preprint [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel and Michael Proctor. (2019). The organization and structure of rhotics in American English rhymes. Phonology 36, 457–495. [pdf]

  • Wei, Wei & Rachel Walker. (2018). Lookahead effects in the reduplication-phonology interaction. Proceedings of the North East Linguistics Society 48, Vol. 3, ed. by Sherry Hucklebridge & Max Nelson, pp. 183–196. Amherst: GLSA. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel. (2018). Feature identity and icy targets in Menominee vowel harmony. Hana-bana: A Festschrift for Junko Ito and Armin Mester, ed. by Ryan Bennett, Andrew Angeles, Adrian Brasoveanu, Dhyana Buckley, Nick Kalivoda, Shigeto Kawahara, Grant McGuire & Jaye Padgett. Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz. [pdf]

  • Mintz, Toben H., Rachel Walker, Ashlee Welday & Celeste Kidd. (2018). Infants’ sensitivity to vowel harmony and its role in segmenting speech. Cognition 171, 95–107.

  • Walker, Rachel. (2017). Cumulative constraint interactions: Violations and domains encompassing segmental spans. Proceedings of WCCFL 34, ed. by Aaron Kaplan, Abby Kaplan, Miranda K. McCarvel, and Edward J. Rubin, pp. 1-15. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel. (2016). Positional prominence and consonantal interactions in metaphony and post-tonic harmony. Approaches to Metaphony in the Languages of Italy, ed. by Francesc Torres-Tamarit, Kathrin Linke, and Marc van Oosterdorp, pp. 301-332. Berlin: de Gryuter. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel. (2015). Surface correspondence and discrete harmony triggers. Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Meeting of Phonology, ed. by Adam Albright and Michelle A. Fullwood. [pdf] doi:10.3765/amp.v2i0.3744

  • Walker, Rachel. (2014). Nonlocal trigger-target relations. Linguistic Inquiry 45.3, 501–523. [pdf] © 2014 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  • Walker, Rachel & Michael Proctor. (2013). Articulatory overlap in English syllables with postvocalic /ɹ/. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Vol. 19, 060259. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel. (2012). Vowel harmony in Optimality Theory. Language and Linguistics Compass 6, 575-592. [pre-publication version [pdf]. The definitive version is available at wileyonlinelibrary.com.

  • Proctor, Michael & Rachel Walker. (2012). Articulatory bases of sonority in English liquids. The Sonority Controversy, ed. by Steve Parker, pp. 289-316. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [pdf]

  • Rose, Sharon & Rachel Walker. (2011). Harmony systems. Handbook of Phonological Theory, Second Edition, ed. by John Goldsmith, Jason Riggle, and Alan Yu, pp. 240-290. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel. (2011). Nasal harmony. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, ed. by Marc van Oostendorp, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth Hume, and Keren Rice, pp. 1838-1865. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel. (2010). Nonmyopic harmony and the nature of derivations. Linguistic Inquiry 41.1, 169-179. [pdf] © 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  • Walker, Rachel, Dani Byrd & Fidèle Mpiranya. (2008). An articulatory view of Kinyarwanda coronal harmony. Phonology 25, 499-535. © 2009 Cambridge University Press. [pdf]. Link to Phonology at Cambridge Journals Online.

  • Walker, Rachel. (2007). Nasal and oral consonant similarity: Exploring parallels with nasal consonant harmony. Language and Cognitive Processes 22.7, 1-41. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel & Fidèle Mpiranya. (2006). On triggers and opacity in coronal harmony. Proceedings of BLS 31 (February 2005), ed. by Rebecca T. Cover and Yuni Kim, pp. 383-394. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel. (2005). Weak triggers in vowel harmony. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 23, 917-989. [pdf]

  • Rose, Sharon & Rachel Walker. (2004). A typology of consonant agreement as correspondence. Language 80, 475-531. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel. (2004). Vowel feature licensing at a distance: Evidence from Northern Spanish language varieties. Proceedings of WCCFL 23, ed. by Vineeta Chand, Ann Kelleher, Angelo J. Rodríguez, and Benjamin Schmeiser, pp. 787-800. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel & Bella Feng. (2004). A ternary model of morphology-phonology correspondence. Proceedings of WCCFL 23, ed. by Vineeta Chand, Ann Kelleher, Angelo J. Rodríguez, and Benjamin Schmeiser, pp. 773-786. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel. (2003). Reinterpreting transparency in nasal harmony. The Phonological Spectrum, Part I: Segmental Structure, ed. by Jeroen van de Weijer, Vincent van Heuven, and Harry van der Hulst, pp. 37-72. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, No. 233.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel. (2002). Yuhup prosodic morphology and a case of augmentation. Proceedings of NELS 32, ed. by Masako Hirotani, pp. 551-562. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. GLSA. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel, Narineh Hacopian & Mariko Taki. (2002). Nasal consonant speech errors: Implications for ‘similarity’ and nasal harmony at a distance. Collected Papers: First Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics, Mexican Institute of Acoustics. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel. (2001). Round licensing, harmony, and bisyllabic triggers in Altaic. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 19, 827-878. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel. (2001). Consonantal correspondence. Proceedings of the Workshop on the Lexicon in Phonetics and Phonology. Papers in Experimental and Theoretical Linguistics, Vol. 6, ed. by Robert Kirchner, Joe Pater, and Wolf Wikeley, pp. 73-84. Edmonton: Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel. (2001). Positional markedness in vowel harmony. Proceedings of HILP 5. Linguistics in Potsdam, Vol. 12, ed. by Caroline Fery, Antony Dubach Green and Ruben van de Vijver, pp. 212-232. University of Potsdam. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel. (2000). Nasal reduplication in Mbe affixation. Phonology 17, 65-115. [pdf]. Link to Phonology at Cambridge Journals Online

  • Walker, Rachel. (2000). Long-distance consonantal identity effects. Proceedings of WCCFL 19, ed. by Roger Billerey and Brook Lillehaugen, pp. 532-545. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel. (2000). Yaka nasal harmony: Spreading or segmental correspondence? Proceedings of BLS 26, ed. by Lisa J. Conathan, Jeff Good, Darya Kavitskaya, Alyssa B. Wulf, and Alan. C. L. Yu, pp. 321-332. Berkeley Linguistics Society. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel. (1999). Guaraní voiceless stops in oral versus nasal contexts: an acoustical study. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 29.1, 63-94. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel & Geoffrey K. Pullum. (1999) Possible and impossible segments. Language 75.4, 764-780. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel. (1997). Faith and markedness in Esimbi feature transfer. Phonology at Santa Cruz, ed. by Rachel Walker, Dan Karvonen, and Motoko Katayama, Vol. 5, pp. 103-115. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel. (1997). Mongolian stress, licensing, and factorial typology. Rutgers Optimality Archive; ROA-171-0197. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel. (1997). Round harmony and featural tautosyllabicity. Proceedings of the Canadian Linguistics Association, ed. by Leslie Clair, Christine Burns, and Lorna Rowsell, pp. 251-262. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel. (1996). A third parameter for unbounded stress. Proceedings of NELS 26, ed. by Kiyomi Kusumoto, pp. 441-455. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, GLSA. [pdf]

  • Cohen, Michael M., Rachel Walker, & Dominic W. Massaro. (1996). Perception of synthetic visible speech. Speechreading by Humans and Machines: Models, Systems, and Applications, ed. by David G. Stork and Marcus E. Hennecke, pp. 153-168. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Speechreading by Man and Machine. NATO Advanced Study Institute Series, Series F: Computer and Systems Sciences 150. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel. (1995). Hierarchical opacity effects in nasal harmony. Proceedings of ESCOL 11, ed. by Janet Fuller, Ho Han, and David Parkinson, pp. 318-329. Ithaca, NY: DMLL Publications. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel. (1995). The role of the specifier of the prepositional phrase. Proceedings of the Canadian Linguistics Association, ed. by Päivi Koskinen, pp. 603-614. University of Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel. (1995). Mongolian stress: Typological implications for nonfinality in unbounded systems. Phonology at Santa Cruz, ed. by Rachel Walker, Ove Lorenz, and Haruo Kubozono. 4, pp. 85-102. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel. (1994). Buriat syllable weight and head prominence. Phonology at Santa Cruz, ed. by Jason Merchant, Jaye Padgett, and Rachel Walker. 3, pp. 99-110. [pdf]

  • Walker, Rachel. (1993). A feature hierarchy for contrastive specification. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, ed. by Carrie Dyck. 12.2, 179-197. [pdf]