Mykel Loren Brinkerhoff- Master of Arts
- PhD Student at University of California, Santa Cruz
Mykel Loren Brinkerhoff
- Master of Arts
- PhD Student at University of California, Santa Cruz
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Introduction
I am a fourth-year doctorate student at UC Santa Cruz. I am primarily interested in phonology and its interfaces to other areas in linguistics. I received my M.A. in Linguistics at UNC Chapel Hill, where I explored issues related to the morphology-phonology interface in Welsh. I currently work on the syntax-prosody of Object Shift and Negative Indefinites in Swedish. I am also conducting fieldwork on Santiago Laxopa Zapotec.
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Current institution
Additional affiliations
July 2018 - April 2019
July 2017 - May 2018
Position
- Graduate Teaching Assistant
Description
- I am a teaching assistant for the "Introduction to Linguistics" course and teach a recitation section under the direction of the head professor.
Education
September 2019 - June 2025
August 2017 - June 2019
August 2012 - December 2015
Publications
Publications (4)
One significant contribution of generative linguistics has been to our understanding of 'movement,' which occurs when a word is linearized in a position different from where it is interpreted. Even though movement often is considered a syntactic phenomenon, some cases seem best analyzed prosodically, such as pronoun post-posing in Irish (Bennett, E...
This study illustrates that role of Lexical Selection (Mascaró 2007) in Optimality Theory in accounting for the Welsh definite article’s allomorphy. This is in response to the claims made by Hannahs & Tallerman (2006) that OT is unable to account for the behavior and distribution of the definite article. This study addresses three of the points tha...
A new analysis of Raddoppiamento Sintattico focusing on ”Backward” gemination using Optimality Theory and making a comparison to the Autosegmental analysis of Brinkerhoff (2015). Written for a general audience.
An analysis of Italian’s Raddoppiamento Sintattico within the framework of Autosegmentalism using new data collected from an audio recording of the bible in Italian.
