Department of Linguistics
The University of Sydney
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Dr Toni Borowsky

    PhD University of Massachusetts at Amherst
BA(hons) University of the Witwatersrand
 
  Phone 9351 3479
  FAX 9351 7572
  Location Rm 228
Transient Building
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Editor of Australian Journal of Linguistics

Present Projects

 
  • working with Barbara Horvath on a massive project investigating the vocalization of l in Australian and New Zealand English.
  • working with Mark Harvey (University of Newcastle) on the nature of the word and of category specific morphology and phonology in Warray and Wagiman
  • worrying about inter and intraword phonology in Optimality Theory with particular reference to English and Dutch.

Research Interests

 
  • All kinds of Theoretical Phonology especially issues of lexical phonology in Optimality Theory.
  • The formalization of phonological variation in OT
  • Articulatory phonetics
  • Language acquisition
  • Working with Peter Avery at York University, Toronto on Reversing Games and Luo

Publications

 
  • (forthcoming) "Dhochi: A Dholuo Language Game" (with Peter Avery)
  • 2001 “The vocalisation of dark l in Australian English” in press in Blair, D and P.Collins (eds) English in Australia (VEAWG26) John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
  • 2000 “Word-Faithfulness and the Direction of Assimilations” in The Linguistic Review 17.1, Mouton, Berlin.
  • 2000 “Some Consequences of Word-Faithfulness” in University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers vol 24; Papers from the 25th Reunion. vol 24
  • 1999 “The Minimal word in Warray” (with Mark Harvey) in Australian Journal of Linguistics 19.1 Cambridge University Press, U.K.
  • 1997 “Vowel Length in Warray and Weight Identity” in Phonology 14.2, Cambridge University Press , U.K. (with Mark Harvey)
  • 1997 “L Vocalization in Australian English: the Adelaide study” (with Barbara Horvath) in Hinskens, F, R. van Hout, and L. Wetzels (eds) Variation, Change and Phonological Theory. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
  • 1995 “Hausa Plurals” in A Traill, R. v.Vossen and M. Biesele (eds) The Complete Linguist : papers in memory of Patrick Dickens. Rudiger, Koppe Verlag.
  • 1993 “On the Word Level” in S. Hargus and E. Kaisse (eds) Phonetics and Phonology vol 4; Studies in Lexical Phonology, Academic Press, U.S.A.
  • 1991 Topics in the Lexical Phonology of English in Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics, Garland Press, New York
  • 1989 “Structure Preservation and the Syllable Coda in English” in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 7.2 Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands
  • 1987 “Antigemination in English Phonology” in Linguistic Inquiry 18.4
  • 1986 “Syllable Codas in English and syllabification” in Proceedings of the North Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS) 17.
  • 1985 “Empty and Unspecified Segments” in Proceedings of the West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) IV
  • 1984 “On Resyllabification in English” in Proceedings of the West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) III
  • 1983 “The Formal Representation of Ambisyllabicity: Evidence from Danish” (With J. Ito and R.-A. Mester) Proceedings of Proceedings of the North Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS) 14
  • 1983 “Glide Insertion in Luganda” Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistis Society (CLS) 19
  • 1983 “Aspiration to Roots: Remarks on the Sanskrit Diaspirates” (With R.-A. Mester) in Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistis Society (CLS) 19
  • 1982 “Geminate Consonants in Luganda” in Current Approaches to African Linguistics. J.Kaye and D Sportiche (eds) Foris, The Netherlands.
  • 1982 University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics (UMOP) 8, with Dan Finer, Amherst, MA.
  • 1977 “Linguistically Disclassed or Sociolinguistically Adept?” in Perspectives in Education vol 2.1 Journal of the Faculty of Education of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Current Supervising Postgraduates

 
Deborah James Hippopotamus is still hard to say when you are seven: Children's acquisition of polysyllabic words