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Clifford Crawford

Welcome to my web page. I'm a graduate student in linguistics at Cornell University. My interests include Japanese linguistics, Austronesian languages, loanword phonology, connectionist approaches to linguistics, and agent-based modeling of social networks and language change.

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Dissertation:

• On-line borrowing and transmission in Japanese loanword phonology. Expecting to finish in May December 2007 before the end of time.

Papers and talks:

• Crawford, C. (in press). "The role of loanword diffusion in changing adaptation patterns: A study of coronal stops in Japanese borrowings." Working Papers of the Cornell Phonetics Laboratory 16, pp. 32-56.
• Crawford, C. (2008). "An evolutionary account of loanword-induced sound change in Japanese." University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 14 (1), pp. 57-70. (handout)
  The agent-based model of loanword transmission described in the paper is available here (requires Java).
• Cohn, A., Brugman, J., Crawford, C., and Joseph, A. (2005). "Lexical frequency effects and phonetic duration of English homophones: An acoustic study." Poster presented at the 150th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 2005.
• Crawford, C. (2004). "The core-periphery model of the lexicon and phonotactic constraints on loanwords in Japanese." Proceedings of LSK 2004, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. (handout)

If you'd like to contact me, you can email me at cjc26@cornell.edu.