Arto Anttila
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Web page: http://web.stanford.edu/people/anttila
Academic Appointments
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Associate Professor, Linguistics
Administrative Appointments
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Research Associate, Academy of Finland (1992 - 1995)
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Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, Boston University (1997 - 2001)
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Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, New York University (2001 - 2004)
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The LSA Linguistic Institute, Stanford University (2007 - 2007)
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Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University (2004 - 2009)
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Affiliated Faculty, Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University (2004 - Present)
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Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University (2009 - Present)
Honors & Awards
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore (2000-2001)
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Hellman Faculty Scholar, Stanford University (2007-2008)
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Internal Faculty Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center (2008-2009)
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International Scholar, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea (2011-2012)
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Adjunct Professor (dosentti) in General Linguistics, University of Helsinki, Finland (2000-)
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Editorial Board Member, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (2015 - 2018)
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Associate Editor, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (2018 - 2022)
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Editorial Board Member, Virittäjä, the journal of the Society for the Study of Finnish (Kotikielen Seura) (2012 - Present)
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Editorial Board Member, Finno-Ugric Languages and Linguistics (FULL). (2011 - Present)
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Editorial Board Member, Language and Linguistics Compass, online journal, Blackwell. (2006 - Present)
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Editorial Board Member, Studies in Language Variation, John Benjamins Publishing Company (2006 - Present)
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Editorial Board Member, Nordic Journal of Linguistics, Cambridge University Press. (2001 - Present)
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Secretary, Linguistic Association of Finland (1991 - 1991)
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Member, Linguistic Society of America (1992 - Present)
Program Affiliations
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Symbolic Systems Program
Professional Education
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M.A., University of Helsinki, General Linguistics and English Philology (1990)
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Ph.D., Stanford University, Linguistics (1998)
Current Research and Scholarly Interests
Phonology, morphology, language variation
2024-25 Courses
- Corpus Phonology
LINGUIST 215 (Spr) - Phonology
LINGUIST 210A (Win) - Phonology Research Lab
LINGUIST 210L (Win, Spr) -
Independent Studies (8)
- Directed Reading
LINGUIST 397 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Directed Research
LINGUIST 398 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Dissertation Research
LINGUIST 399 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Honors Research
LINGUIST 198 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Independent Study
LINGUIST 199 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - M.A. Project
LINGUIST 390 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Master's Degree Project
SYMSYS 290 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Research Projects in Linguistics
LINGUIST 396 (Win)
- Directed Reading
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Advanced Topics in Semantics & Pragmatics
LINGUIST 230C (Aut) - Languages, Dialects, Speakers
LINGUIST 47N (Spr) - Morphology
LINGUIST 216 (Win) - Phonology
LINGUIST 210A (Spr)
2022-23 Courses
- Advanced Phonology
LINGUIST 210B (Win) - Corpus Phonology: Sentence Prosody
LINGUIST 215 (Spr) - Languages, Dialects, Speakers
LINGUIST 47N (Aut) - Phonology
LINGUIST 210A (Aut)
2021-22 Courses
- Introduction to Phonology
LINGUIST 110 (Aut) - Languages, Dialects, Speakers
LINGUIST 47N (Spr) - Phonology
LINGUIST 210A (Win) - Structure of Finnish
LINGUIST 272 (Spr)
- Advanced Topics in Semantics & Pragmatics
All Publications
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Tone and morphological level ordering in Dagaare
PHONOLOGY
2023
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0952675723000167
View details for Web of Science ID 001098306300001
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Equiprobable mappings in weighted constraint grammars
ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL. 2019: 125–34
View details for Web of Science ID 000538552400015
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Phonological Effects on Syntactic Variation
ANNUAL REVIEW OF LINGUISTICS, VOL 2
2016; 2: 115-137
View details for DOI 10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011415-040845
View details for Web of Science ID 000368368700008
- Modeling phonological variation The Oxford Handbook of Laboratory Phonology edited by Cohn, A. C., Fougeron, C., Huffman, M. 2012: 76–91
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On structural case in Finnish and Korean
LINGUA
2011; 121 (1): 100-127
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.lingua.2010.07.008
View details for Web of Science ID 000283963800008
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The role of prosody in the English dative alternation
LANGUAGE AND COGNITIVE PROCESSES
2010; 25 (7-9): 946-981
View details for DOI 10.1080/01690960903525481
View details for Web of Science ID 000282683700002
- Variation and Ambiguity Reality Exploration and Discovery: Pattern Interaction in Language and Life. Festschrift for K.P. Mohanan edited by Uyechi, L., Wee, L. H. CSLI Publications, Stanford, California. 2010: 345–358
- Prosodic morphology in Dagaare Cascadilla Proceedings Project edited by Matondo, M., McLaughlin, F., Potsdam, E. 2009: 56–68
- Derived Environment Effects in Colloquial Helsinki Finnish The Nature of the Word: Essays in Honor of Paul Kiparsky edited by Hanson, K., Inkelas, S. MIT Press, Cambridge,Massachusetts. 2009: 433–460
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Gradient phonotactics and the Complexity Hypothesis
NATURAL LANGUAGE & LINGUISTIC THEORY
2008; 26 (4): 695-729
View details for DOI 10.1007/s11049-008-9052-2
View details for Web of Science ID 000261181400001
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Variation and opacity in Singapore English consonant clusters
PHONOLOGY
2008; 25 (2): 181-216
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0952675708001462
View details for Web of Science ID 000262277400001
- Phonological Constraints on Constituent Ordering Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. edited by Chang, C. B., Haynie, H. 2008: 51–59
- Variation and optionality The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology edited by Lacy, P. d. CambridgeUniversity Press,Cambridge. 2007: 519–536
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Variation and opacity
NATURAL LANGUAGE & LINGUISTIC THEORY
2006; 24 (4): 893-944
View details for DOI 10.1007/s11049-006-0002-6
View details for Web of Science ID 000243381400001
- Prosodic constraints on /-ntV/ in Finnish A Man of Measure: Festschrift in Honour of Fred Karlsson on his 60th Birthday. edited by Suominen, M., Arppe, A., Airola, A., Heinämäki, O., Miestamo, M., Määttä, U., Niemi, J., Pitkänen, K. K., Sinnemäki, K. The Linguistic Association of Finland, Turku. 2006: 119–127
- Variation and opacity in Finnish phonology CSC Report on Scientific Computing in Finland 2004-2005. edited by Fagerholm, J., Puska, L., Åström, J., Blomqvist, J., Forsström, P., Jukka, L., Kotila, S., Laine, M. M., Miettinen, M., Tarus, J., Tissari, S. CSC, The Finnish IT Center for Science. 2005: 171–174
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Variation, and noun classes in English
LINGUA
2004; 114 (9-10): 1253-1290
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.lingua.2003.06.001
View details for Web of Science ID 000223487200008
- Deriving consonant cluster phonotactics: Evidence from Singapore English. NELS 34, Proceedings of the Northeast Linguistic Society edited by Moulton, K., Wolf, M. GLSA, Amherst, Massachusetts. 2004: 89–103
- Finnish Assibilation NELS 33, Proceedings of the Northeast Linguistic Society edited by Kadowaki, M., Kawahara, S. GLSA, Amherst, Massachusetts. 2003: 13–24
- Variation and Phonological Theory Handbook of Language Variation and Change edited by Chambers, J., Trudgill, P., Schilling-Estes, N. Blackwell, Oxford, U.K.. 2003: 206–243
- Evaluating interactivity Global E-Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Education. 2003
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Morphologically conditioned phonological alternations
NATURAL LANGUAGE & LINGUISTIC THEORY
2002; 20 (1): 1-42
View details for Web of Science ID 000175464000001
- Variation in Finnish Phonology and Morphology. Dissertation summary. Glot International 2001; 5 (1): 1-3
- Headmost Accent Wins Glot International 2001; 5 (3): 103-108
- Review of Heli Harrikari (2000) “Segmental Length in Finnish – Studies within a Constraint-Based Approach”. Virittäjä 2001; 106 (2): 322-333
- Variation in Allomorph Selection NELS 30, Proceedings of the Northeast Linguistic Society edited by Hirotani, M., Coetzee, A., Hall, N., Kim, J. GLSA, Amherst, Massachusetts. 2000: 29–42
- The Partitive Constraint in Optimality Theory Journal of Semantics 2000; 17 (4): 281-314
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Variation and change in optimality theory
BCN Workshop on Conflicting Constraints
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV. 1998: 31–56
View details for Web of Science ID 000072822400003
- Variation and Change in Optimality Theory Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader edited by McCarthy, J. J. Blackwell, Oxford, U.K., and Malden, Massachusetts. 1998: 569–580
- Deriving variation from grammar Variation, Change and Phonological Theory edited by Hinskens, F., Hout, R. V., Wetzels, L. John Benjamins, Amsterdam. 1997: 35–68
- How to recognise subjects in English Constraint Grammar: A Language-Independent System for Parsing Unrestricted Text edited by Karlsson, F., Voutilainen, A., Heikkil¨a, J., Antilla, A. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin. 1995: 315–358
- Constraint Grammar: A Language-Independent System for Parsing Unrestricted Text edited by Karlsson, F., Voutilainen, A., Heikkil¨a, J., Anttila, A. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin. 1995
- Constraint Grammar of English: A Performance-Oriented Introduction University of Helsinki, Department of Linguistics. 1992; 21
- Constraint Grammar: A Language-Independent System for Parsing Unrestricted Text, with an Application to English Natural Language Text Retrieval: Workshop Notes from the Ninth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-91) 1991
- Yearbook of the Linguistic Association of Finland edited by Vilkuna, M., Anttila, A. Suomen kielitieteellinen yhdistys, Helsinki. 1991
- Three approaches to describing conversion The Yearbook of the Linguistic Association of Finland edited by Östman, J., Jokinen, K. Suomen kielitieteellinen yhdistys, Helsinki, Finland. 1990: 111–127