Kie Zuraw

Associate Professor of Linguistics
Department: Linguistics
3125 Campbell Hall
Box 951543
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543
Tel: 310-710-0401
kie@ucla.edu
Personal Website

Keywords: Asia, Linguistics, Philippines, Southeast Asia

Current projects/interests in phonology

• Exceptionality in phonology: learnability, representation, and processing
• Variable/gradient/stochastic constraint ranking
• Assimilation of new words into the lexicon; phonological selection of new words
• Computational models of the speech community
• Tagalog (and other) loanword phonology; language change through contact
• Tagalog phonology in general
• Reduplication
• Nasal substitution in Austronesian languages