Chris Oakden Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University 18 Seminary Pl. New Brunswick, NJ 08901 chris.oakden@rutgers.edu My CV

About my research

I am interested in phonological theory, especially tonal representation and interfaces with stress and syllable structure.

For my MA at the University of Arizona, I worked on tone sandhi in the Nanjing dialect. That is available here.

I host a number of my ongoing projects on GitHub. These include work on Lithuanian Word Stress, a set of stress prediction algorithms, and others.

Additionally, I am an avid writer of Chinese poetry. You can read manuscripts of some of my favorite collections here and here.

Papers

• with Siddharth Bhaskar, Jane Chandlee, and Adam Jardine. Accepted. Boolean monadic recursive schemes as a logical characterization of the subsequential functions. 14th International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications (LATA 2020). [pdf]
• 2019. Notational equivalence in tonal geometry. Resubmitted to Phonology. [pdf]
• with Nate Koser and Adam Jardine. 2019. Tone association and output locality in non-linear structures. In Hout, K., Mai, A., McCollum, A., Rose, S., and Zalansky, M., eds, Supplemental Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Meeting on Phonology. LSA. [pdf]
• 2019. Tone merger in the Nanjing Dialect: An acoustic analysis. In the Proceedings of the 29th Meeting of the North American Conference of Chinese Linguistics. [pdf]
• with Feng-hsi Liu. 2014. Disyllabic bound morphemes in modern Mandarin Chinese: an analysis of yiqian and yihou. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 42(1): 55-92. [pdf]