Publications

[to appear] Kuo, Jennifer. "Types of statistical knowledge in alternation learning: insights from artificial grammar learning." Proceedings of WCCFL 42.

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Kuo, Jennifer. 2024. "Phonetic naturalness in the reanalysis of Samoan thematic consonant alternations." Journal of Phonetics 107, p. 101355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101355

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[to appear] Kuo, Jennifer. "Hiatus avoidance and the development of Maori passive allomorphy." Proceedings of NELS 54.

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[to appear] Kuo, Jennifer. "Phonological reanalysis is guided is guided by markedness: the case of Malagasy weak stems." Phonology.

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Grabowski, Emily and Kuo, Jennifer. (2023). Comparing k-means and OPTICS clustering algorithms for identifying vowel categories. Proceedings of the LSA 2023, (8)1, 5488.https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5488.

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Kuo, Jennifer. (2023). Evidence for prosodic correspondence in the vowel alternations of Tgdaya Seediq. Phonological Data and Analysis 5(3), p. 1-31. https://doi.org/10.3765/pda.v5art3.77

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Elkins, Noah and Kuo, Jennifer. (2023). A prominence account of the Northern Mam weight hierarchy. Supplemental Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Meeting on Phonology. https://doi.org/10.3765/amp.v10i0.5433.

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Kuo, Jennifer. (2018). A large-scale smartphone-based sociophonetic study of Taiwan Mandarin. Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 4(2), p. 197–230.

Manuscripts

Kuo, Jennifer. (in prep). "Evidence for base-driven alternation in Tgdaya Seediq."

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Theses

Kuo, Jennifer. (2023). Phonological markedness effects in reanalysis. PhD dissertation. UCLA.

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Kuo, Jennifer. (2020). Evidence for base-driven alternation in Tgdaya Seediq. M.A. thesis. UCLA.

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Selected presentations

Kuo, Jennifer. "Types of statistical learning in the acquisition of alternations: insights from artificial grammar learning." Poster presented on April 12, 2024, at WCCFL 42 (West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics), UC Berkeley, CA, US.

POSTER

Kuo, Jennifer. "Hiatus avoidance and the development of Māori passive allomorphy." Poster presented on January 24, 2024, at NELS 54 (Northeast Linguistics Society), MIT, Cambridge, MA, US.

POSTER

Kuo, Jennifer. "Markedness effects in the history of Samoan thematic consonants." Talk presented on October 22, 2023, at Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association XXX (AFLA30), Lund University, Sweden.

SLIDES

Kuo, Jennifer. "Prosodic correspondence in Tgdaya Seediq: insights from corpus and experimental evidence." Invited talk (Homecoming Lecture) presented on October 17, 2023, at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.

SLIDES

Kuo, Jennifer. "Markedness bias in the reshaping of Malagasy paradigms." Invited talk presented on September 17, 2023, at CNY Humanities Corridor Sound Structures Working Group, Syracuse University, NY, USA.

SLIDES

Kuo, Jennifer. "Markedness bias in reanalysis: an iterated learning model of Samoan thematic consonant alternations." Talk presented on May 26, 2023, at Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language (HISPhonCog) 2023, Seoul, Korea.

SLIDES

Grabowski, Emily and Kuo, Jennifer. "Comparing k-means and OPTICS clustering algorithms for identifying vowel categories." Talk presented on January 05, 2023, at LSA 2023, Denver, Colorado, USA.

ABSTRACT

Elkins, Noah and Kuo, Jennifer. "A prominence account of the Northern Mam weight hierarchy." Poster presented on October 22, 2022, at Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP), UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.

POSTER

Kuo, Jennifer. "Markedness effects in paradigm reanalysis: the case of Malagasy consonant alternations." Poster presented on October 21, 2022, at Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP), UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.

POSTER

Kuo, Jennifer. "Substantive bias in paradigm reanalysis: the case of Malagasy weak-stem alternations." Talk presented on July 01, 2022, at Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (TripleAFLA), Manchester (remote).

SLIDES

Kuo, Jennifer and Elkins, Noah. "Phonetic Realization of Vowel Length and Glottalization in Todos Santos Mam." Talk presented on May 25, 2022, at 182nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Denver.

SLIDES

Kuo, Jennifer, Yang, Cathryn, and Stanford, James. "Gendered variation in a matrilineal/matrilocal community: Yongning Na of Yunnan, China." Talk presented on February 19, 2021, at New Ways of Analyzing Variation Asia Pacific 6 (NWAV-AP6), remote (National University of Singapore, Singapore).

SLIDES

Kuo, Jennifer. "Base-driven phonological reanalysis in Tgdaya Seediq." Poster presented on February 08, 2020, at Berkeley Linguistics Society, UC Berkeley, California.

POSTER

Faytak, Matthew, Kuo, Jennifer, & Wang, Shun-jie. "Lingual articulation of the Suzhou Chinese labial fricative vowels." Talk presented on August 17, 2019, by Matt Faytak at International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Melbourne, Australia.

Faytak, Matthew & Kuo, Jennifer. "Trade-offs between labial and lingual activity in the Suzhou Chinese labial fricative vowels." Poster presented on May 17, 2019, at 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Louisville, KY, USA.

Jennifer Kuo

Publications

[to appear] Kuo, Jennifer. "Types of statistical knowledge in alternation learning: insights from artificial grammar learning." Proceedings of WCCFL 42.

Kuo, Jennifer. 2024. "Phonetic naturalness in the reanalysis of Samoan thematic consonant alternations." Journal of Phonetics 107, p. 101355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101355

[to appear] Kuo, Jennifer. "Hiatus avoidance and the development of Maori passive allomorphy." Proceedings of NELS 54.

[to appear] Kuo, Jennifer. "Phonological reanalysis is guided is guided by markedness: the case of Malagasy weak stems." Phonology.

Grabowski, Emily and Kuo, Jennifer. (2023). Comparing k-means and OPTICS clustering algorithms for identifying vowel categories. Proceedings of the LSA 2023, (8)1, 5488.https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5488.

Kuo, Jennifer. (2023). Evidence for prosodic correspondence in the vowel alternations of Tgdaya Seediq. Phonological Data and Analysis 5(3), p. 1-31. https://doi.org/10.3765/pda.v5art3.77

Elkins, Noah and Kuo, Jennifer. (2023). A prominence account of the Northern Mam weight hierarchy. Supplemental Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Meeting on Phonology. https://doi.org/10.3765/amp.v10i0.5433.

Kuo, Jennifer. (2018). A large-scale smartphone-based sociophonetic study of Taiwan Mandarin. Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 4(2), p. 197–230.

Manuscripts

Kuo, Jennifer. (in prep). "Evidence for base-driven alternation in Tgdaya Seediq."

Theses

Kuo, Jennifer. (2023). Phonological markedness effects in reanalysis. PhD dissertation. UCLA.

Kuo, Jennifer. (2020). Evidence for base-driven alternation in Tgdaya Seediq. M.A. thesis. UCLA.

Selected presentations

Kuo, Jennifer. "Types of statistical learning in the acquisition of alternations: insights from artificial grammar learning." Poster presented on April 12, 2024, at WCCFL 42 (West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics), UC Berkeley, CA, US.

Kuo, Jennifer. "Hiatus avoidance and the development of Māori passive allomorphy." Poster presented on January 24, 2024, at NELS 54 (Northeast Linguistics Society), MIT, Cambridge, MA, US.

Kuo, Jennifer. "Markedness effects in the history of Samoan thematic consonants." Talk presented on October 22, 2023, at Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association XXX (AFLA30), Lund University, Sweden.

Kuo, Jennifer. "Prosodic correspondence in Tgdaya Seediq: insights from corpus and experimental evidence." Invited talk (Homecoming Lecture) presented on October 17, 2023, at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.

Kuo, Jennifer. "Markedness bias in the reshaping of Malagasy paradigms." Invited talk presented on September 17, 2023, at CNY Humanities Corridor Sound Structures Working Group, Syracuse University, NY, USA.

Kuo, Jennifer. "Markedness bias in reanalysis: an iterated learning model of Samoan thematic consonant alternations." Talk presented on May 26, 2023, at Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language (HISPhonCog) 2023, Seoul, Korea.

Grabowski, Emily and Kuo, Jennifer. "Comparing k-means and OPTICS clustering algorithms for identifying vowel categories." Talk presented on January 05, 2023, at LSA 2023, Denver, Colorado, USA.

Elkins, Noah and Kuo, Jennifer. "A prominence account of the Northern Mam weight hierarchy." Poster presented on October 22, 2022, at Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP), UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Kuo, Jennifer. "Markedness effects in paradigm reanalysis: the case of Malagasy consonant alternations." Poster presented on October 21, 2022, at Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP), UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Kuo, Jennifer. "Substantive bias in paradigm reanalysis: the case of Malagasy weak-stem alternations." Talk presented on July 01, 2022, at Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (TripleAFLA), Manchester (remote).

Kuo, Jennifer and Elkins, Noah. "Phonetic Realization of Vowel Length and Glottalization in Todos Santos Mam." Talk presented on May 25, 2022, at 182nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Denver.

Kuo, Jennifer, Yang, Cathryn, and Stanford, James. "Gendered variation in a matrilineal/matrilocal community: Yongning Na of Yunnan, China." Talk presented on February 19, 2021, at New Ways of Analyzing Variation Asia Pacific 6 (NWAV-AP6), remote (National University of Singapore, Singapore).

Kuo, Jennifer. "Base-driven phonological reanalysis in Tgdaya Seediq." Poster presented on February 08, 2020, at Berkeley Linguistics Society, UC Berkeley, California.

Faytak, Matthew, Kuo, Jennifer, & Wang, Shun-jie. "Lingual articulation of the Suzhou Chinese labial fricative vowels." Talk presented on August 17, 2019, by Matt Faytak at International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Melbourne, Australia.

Faytak, Matthew & Kuo, Jennifer. "Trade-offs between labial and lingual activity in the Suzhou Chinese labial fricative vowels." Poster presented on May 17, 2019, at 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Louisville, KY, USA.