Connor Mayer

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ID3601855
NOMBREConnor Mayer
NOMBRESConnor
APELLIDOMayer
FIRMAMAYER C
AFILIACIONESUniversity of California, Irvine
ORCID0000-0003-2710-3475
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS6
TOTAL DE CITAS2
TOTAL COMO AUTOR6
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2019
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H1

  • A large-scale corpus study of phonological opacity in Uyghur

    Open AccessConnor MayerARTICLEPhonology2025

    This article examines a case of phonological opacity in Uyghur resulting from an interaction between backness harmony and a vowel reduction process that converts harmonic vowels into transparent vowels. A large-scale corpus study shows that although opaque harmony with the underlying form of a reduced vowel is the dominant pattern, cases of surface-apparent harmony also occur. The rate of surface-apparent harmony varies across roots and is correl…

  • Disentangling Words, Clitics, and Suffixes in Uyghur

    Open AccessTravis Major, Connor Mayer et al.ARTICLELanguages2023Citada por: 1Referencias: 13

    Turkic languages have been shown to form words using a wide range of word-formation strategies, such as suffixation, cliticization, and auxiliaries. The present paper offers a detailed description of word formation in Uyghur, compares the patterns in Uyghur with the prior literature on Turkic, offers explicit diagnostics for suffixes and clitics, and proposes a morpho-syntactic analysis for each strategy

  • Are neutral roots in Uyghur really neutral? Evaluating a covert phonemic contrast

    Open AccessConnor Mayer, Travis Major et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Annual…2022

    This paper looks at the case of so-called neutral roots in Uyghur (Turkic: China), whose idiosyncratic behavior with respect to the backness harmony system has been analyzed as stemming from a covert vowel contrast. Based on considerations of the structural properties of the language and the results of an experimental study, we suggest that an analysis based on lexical exceptionality is more parsimonious than the traditional analysis, unifying th…

  • Issues in Uyghur phonology

    Open AccessConnor Mayer, Adam Mccollum et al.ARTICLELanguage and Linguistics Compass2022Citada por: 1Referencias: 29

    This article presents an overview of several significant aspects of the phonology of Uyghur (ISO: uig; pronounced [ʊjˈʁʊr]; Turkic: China). In addition to summarising previous research, we present new data and highlight its relevance for phonological theory. The paper focuses primarily on the processes of backness harmony, rounding harmony, and vowel reduction. Particular attention is paid to the complex, and sometimes opaque, interactions betwee…

  • An algorithm for learning phonological classes from distributional similarity

    Open AccessConnor MayerARTICLEPhonology2020

    An important question in phonology is to what degree the learner uses distributional information rather than substantive properties of speech sounds when learning phonological structure. This paper presents an algorithm that learns phonological classes from only distributional information: the contexts in which sounds occur. The input is a segmental corpus, and the output is a set of phonological classes. The algorithm is first tested on an artif…

  • A Method for Projecting Features from Observed Sets of Phonological Classes

    Connor Mayer, Robert DalandARTICLELinguistic Inquiry2019Referencias: 5

    Given a set of phonological features, we can enumerate a set of phonological classes. Here we consider the inverse of this problem: given a set of phonological classes, can we derive a feature system? We show that this is indeed possible, using a collection of algorithms that assign features to a set of input classes and differ in terms of what types of features are permissible. This work bears on theories of both language-specific and universal …