Patterned Exceptions in Phonology - UCLA Department of Linguistics

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
First I have to thank Bruce Hayes and Donca Steriade, my advisers. They’ve been the
best thing (among many very fine things) about my six years here at UCLA. Just about
everything I know, they taught me, and certainly any good idea I’ve ever had has come
from a conversation with one of them. And without their encouragement to follow my
nose, this would have been a much tamer dissertation, for better or for worse. I hope
Bruce and Donca realize that they’re my role models in all areas of life. I doubt I can ever
live up to the example they’ve set as scholars, teachers, and mentors, but at least I know
what to shoot for.
I asked Carson Schütze to be on my committee because I knew he’d ask hard
questions, and he did. I know I haven’t really answered all of them, but trying to answer
them has clarified my thinking a lot, and I think made this a better work. I asked Donka
Minkova to be on my committee because of its diachronic flavor; thanks to her for giving
me an informed perspective on my claims about lexical change and the role of
interactions in the speech community.
What first attracted me to UCLA was the sense of excitement among the students
and faculty over what they were doing. Sustaining that environment requires time and
effort, and I’d like to thank all of the students and faculty in this department for the
interaction that has been invaluable to me. Particularly to be thanked are Adam Albright,
Dan Albro, Marco Baroni, Roger Billerey, Katherine Crosswhite, Janine Ekulona,
Christina Foreman, Matt Gordon, Bruce Hayes, Sun-Ah Jun, Pat Keating, Ed Keenan,
Robert Kirchner, Peggy MacEachern, Pam Munro, Carson Schütze, Ed Stabler, Donca
Steriade, Siri Tuttle, and Jie Zhang.
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