I am a research fellow and a PhD student at the Center for Advanced Studies in Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Tromsø in Tromsø, Norway. I received my specialist degree (roughly an MA) at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (OTiPL) of the Faculty of Philology, Moscow State University in Russia.
I specialize in phonology, particularly segmental phonology and consonant alternations. My main areas of interest concern the nature of phonological features and the division of labour in phonological theory. My PhD project is an in-depth comparative investigation of selected aspects of the phonology of two Brythonic Celtic varieties, with special attention to the rôle that representation plays in cross-linguistic variation even in computationally oriented frameworks such as Optimality Theory.
I have also worked on Russian, Friulian, Scottish Gaelic, Munster Irish, Fula, and Tswana, and on the use of typed feature structures to formalize phonological representations. I am also interested in applying functional programming techniques to solving problems in phonological theory, for which my language of choice is Common Lisp (though I have also dabbled in Haskell). Feel free to browse my BitBucket page (however, the linguistics stuff is not there yet).
Upcoming
- I will present A unified account of the behaviour of high vowels in Bothoa Breton at the 7th Celtic Linguistics Conference at the University of Rennes 2.
- I will present Deconstructing mutation in Breton at the Workshop on the Selection and Representation of Morphological Exponents at the University of Tromsø.
- I will present Laryngeal realism revisited: voicelessness in Breton at the 20th Manchester Phonology Meeting at the University of Manchester
Latest
- My paper Final devoicing and vowel lengthening in Friulian: a representational approach is now available online; or download the preprint version at Munin
- I presented “Pitch accent” and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: historical implications at the 11th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics at the University of Freiburg. View the presentation or download the handout.
- The official version of my paper Vowel reduction in Russian: no phonetics in phonology is now available.
I'll be sure to put up more links here as the page actually grows (hopefully...)
Before you ask, anghyflawn is Welsh for 'incomplete' — at this point this should be self-explanatory
