Dissertation - Michael Becker

a great place, I would like to mention Jan Anderssen, Shai Cohen, Chris Davis, Amy RoseDeal, Annahita Farudi, Meg Grant, Minjoo Kim, Emerson Loustau, Andrew McKenzie,Aynat Rubinstein, Florian Schwartz, Cherlon Ussery, and Martin Walkow. Finally, specialthanks are due to Kathy Adamczyk and to Sarah Vega-Liros.At the Tel Aviv University, I thank Outi Bat-El for her constant support over the years,from my first day on campus and ever since. My interest in phonology owes much to herunique teaching style and her enthusiasm. I thank Chuck Kisseberth for showing me truecommitment to linguistics. I also thank my other teachers, Galit Adam, Gabi Danon, NiritKadmon, Fred Landman, Aldo Sevi, and Tali Siloni. Thanks also to my colleagues at theBen Gurion University, Nomi Erteschik-Shir, Idan Landau, and Yishai Tobin.I thank Ram Frost of the Hebrew University’s psychology department for his incomparablehospitality and generosity. By opening his lab to me and supporting me throughmany failed iterations of my experiments, he made my work on Hebrew possible. I alsothank Hadas Velan, Boaz Tzur, Shlomit Brosh, and the other members of Ram’s lab. Theyall deserve the finest chocolate.I thank my collaborators in recent years, Lena Fainleib, Peter Jurgec, Nihan Ketrez,and Andrew Nevins, for their friendship and support, and for getting our prose out there.I thank Joey Sabbagh for showing me how co-teaching follows from general principles,and for helping me figure out the secret laws of Reed College. Thanks also to my othercolleagues at Reed, Matt Pearson and Steven Hibbard.For making linguistics as a field exciting and worth going into, I thank many people,including Diana Apoussidou, Sabrina Bendjaballah, Roy Becker (who is not my cousin),Adam Buchwald, Evan-Gary Cohen, Paul de Lacy, Noam Faust, Gillian Gallagher, PeterGraff, Bruce Hayes, Uri Horesh, Lary Hyman, Gaja Jarosz, Beste Kamali, Jonah Katz,Jaklin Kornfilt, Lior Laks, Susie Levi, Jean Lowenstamm, Bruce Morén, Elliott Moreton,Scott Myers, Sumru Özsoy, Omer Preminger, Curt Rice, Nathan Sanders, Donca Steriade,Bruce Tesar, Adam Ussishkin, Marc van Oostendorp, Andy Wedel, and Kie Zuraw.vi