• dmortens@cs.cmu.edu

Selected papers available for download

2018

  • Aditi Chaudhary, Chunting Zhou, Lori Levin, Graham Neubig, David R. Mortensen, and Jaime Carbonell (2018). “Adapting word embeddings to new languages with morphological and phonological subword representations.” In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 3285–3295, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics [PDF]
  • Mortensen, David R., Siddharth Dalmia and Patrick Littell (2018). “Epitran: precision G2P for many languages.” In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), Paris France: European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [PDF]

2016

    Mortensen, David R., Patrick Littell, Akash Bharadwaj, Kartik Goyal, Chris Dyer, and Lori Levin (2016). “PanPhon: A resource for mapping IPA segments to articulatory feature vectors.” In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers. 3475–3484. Osaka, Japan. [PDF]

2013

  • Mortensen, David R. and James A. Miller (2013). “A reconstruction of Proto-Tangkhulic rhymes.” Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 36(1): 1-32. [PDF]
  • Mortensen, David R. (2013). “Tonally conditioned vowel raising in Shuijingping Mang.” Journal of East Asian Linguistics 22(3): 189-216. DOI: 10.1007/s10831-013-9102-6 [Pre-publication PDF]

2012

  • Mortensen, David R. (2012). “The emergence of dorsal stops after high vowels.” Diachronica 29(4): 434-470. DOI: 10.1075/dia.29.4.02mor [Pre-publication PDF]
  • Vercellotti, Mary Lou and David R. Mortensen (2012). “A classification of compounding in American Sign Language: an evaluation of the Bisetto and Scalise framework.” Morphology 22(4): 545-579. DOI: 10.1007/s11525-012-9205-1

2011

  • Mortensen, David R. (2011), “Lexical Prefixes and Tibeto-Burman Laryngeal Contrasts.” Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 272-286. [PDF]
  • Mortensen, David R. and Jennifer Keogh (2011). “Sorbung, an undocumented language of Manipur: its phonology and place in Tibeto-Burman.” Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 4(1): 64-114. [PDF]

2010

  • Mortensen, David R. (2010). “Does Hmong allow noun incorporation?” WSU Linguistics Program Colloquium. [PDF]

2009

  • Mortensen, David R. and James A. Miller (2009). “Proto-Tangkhul Onsets in Comparative Perspective.” International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics 42, Chiangmai, November 4. [PDF]

2006

  • Mortensen, David R. (2006). “Tonally conditioned vowel raising in Shuijingping Hmong.” Handout from the LSA 80th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico. January 6, 2006. [PDF]

2004

  • Mortensen, David R. (2004). “Abstract scales in phonology.” [ROA-667-0604]. In revision for publication. [PDF]
  • Mortensen, David R. (2004). “The emergence of dorsal stops after high vowels in Huishu” To appear in Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. [PDF]
  • Mortensen, David R. (2004). “Preliminaries to Mong Leng (Hmong Njua) Phonology” Unpublished, UC Berkeley. [PDF]
  • Mortensen, David R. (2004). “The Development of Tone Sandhi in Western Hmongic: A New Hypothesis” Unpublished, UC Berkeley. [PDF]
  • Mortensen, David R. (2004). “Two Types of Variable Elements in Hmong Anaphora.” Submitted: Rose-Marie Déchaine & Martina Wiltschko (eds.), Pronouns as Epiphenomena, Oxford University Press (pre-review version). [PDF]
  • Mortensen, David R. (2004). “The emergence of dorsal stops after high vowels in Huishu” Handout from BLS 30, Berkeley. [PDF]

2003

  • Mortensen, David R. (2003). “Comparative Tangkhul” Unpublished Qualifying Paper, UC Berkeley. [PDF]
  • Mortensen, David R. (2003). “Hmong Elaborate Expressions are Coordinate Compounds” Unpublished, UC Berkeley. [PDF]
  • Mortensen, David R. (2003). “Two Types of Variable Elements in Hmong Anaphora.” Handout from UBC Pronouns Workshop. [PDF]
  • Mortensen, David R. (2003). “Two Types of Variable Elements in Hmong Anaphora.” Unpublished, UC Berkeley. [PDF]
  • Mortensen, David R. (2003). “Chain-shift, schmain-shift: Anti-Identity and Tone Sandhi in Hmong, A-Hmao, and Jingpho.” Handout from TREND 2003. [PDF]

2002

  • Mortensen, David R. (2002). “Semper Infidelis: Theoretical dimensions of tone sandhi chains in Jingpho and A-Hmao”. Unpublished, UC Berkeley. [PDF]

2001

  • Mortensen, David R. (2000). “Sinitic loanwords in two Hmong dialects of Southeast Asia”. Unpublished Honors Thesis, Utah State University. [PDF]