Dr Toni Borowsky

Editor of Australian Journal of Linguistics

Present Projects

• Language games
• Working with Peter Avery at York University, Toronto on Reversing Games and
  Luo
• Syllabification

Research Interests

• All kinds of Theoretical Phonology including issues of lexical phonology
  in Optimality Theory.
• The formalization of phonological variation in OT
• Language acquisition

Publications

• In preparation: Prosody Matters: Essays in Honor of Lisa Selkirk Edited by: Toni Borowsky, Shigeto Kawahara, Takahito Shinya and Mariko Sugahara, Equinox Press
• Forthcoming "Language disguise in OT: Reversing and Truncating" in Pacific Linguistics
• 2009 "Dhochi: A Dholuo Language Game" (with Peter Avery) in Australian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 29, Issue 2 May 2009 , pages 169 - 194.
• 2001 “The vocalisation of dark l in Australian English” 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